Just to illustrate the way my mind thinks I offer this. As an artist I'm in continual search of understanding about form, scale, invention, imagination, and color. Sometimes I see something and I can imagine it as something else as we've all done from time to time. I was recently upstate and while driving I noticed this enormous cloud and immediately saw the mothership from District 9. Well it wasn't actually the same shape but the scale of it just screamed alien invasion. So here's what I painted in photoshop and below is the original photograph that I took which sparked the idea. It's more of an exercise in color. How to paint in a ship that appears to be in the actual scene. I think I did a pretty decent job for a 30 minute sketch. With more time and some attention to detail this ship might just abduct someone….

The Mother Ship

Original photo