"The Spice Must Flow" (art)

Made with Flame Painter in 4K (3840 x 2160). Like most, this started as a single brush stroke, which informed me what to do next. :)

I forget which brushes I've used to make various paintings in the past, so this time I wrote down which brushes made which layers. The first brush was the dunes, using Golden Wing, with the default color.

The foreground, the sand, was done with Fire Fibre, using the same color as the above (34 209 235). I also made a sky, with this brush, but didn't like it so hid it, then I changed it more than the undo buffer could fix, so I deleted it.

I used the brush Noise for the stars and moon, using a gradient which goes from pink-to-white, not sure how to accurately describe the gradient; it's the eighth one down in the left column, in my view (which has two columns) -- but I might have added a gradient, so it might not be the same as "out of the box"...

Anyway, then I added glow and blur to each of the layers, variously, and thought of the title, from the "Dune" books by Frank Herbert.

He also wrote the book "The White Plague" which was about a bio-researcher who sees his wife and child killed by a car bomb, and decides to make a disease to kill all the women. Really interesting story, especially the societal changes ("primary husband," etc), and similarity to plagues of old, where people would hole up and not allow strangers in, and would "shoot first."

"Dune" was also made into a movie in 1984, with Sting (and Patrick Stewart, 3 years before ST:TNG!). I don't remember it as very good, though; fortunately I had read the book first.

I thought of making a spice worm, to go with the title, but I need more practice I think. :)

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