I have always been so fascinated by space and this work gave me the ability paint an image that included more than one subject that I love. I wanted to paint a classic styled painting with a sci-fi twist.

The story and idea behind this work is that these are human-like creatures that live on a small terrestrial Earth-like planet inside the Orion Nebula. Their sky is illuminated by the surrounding nebula and, at night, their two moons are brightly lit by their giant blue star. Humans could not survive on this world due to the thick radiation. In this image I wanted to illustrate what an alien family might look like on another world.

I was reluctant at first to paint the nudity but I think that the human body is art itself and beautiful and these creatures feel no shame nor need any clothing.

This work was created using Painter and Photoshop. I looked at my own hands for reference as well as my fiances and the Spitzer Space Telescope's Orion Nebula image.

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