The Promise
Earlier this spring, I made my first attempt at some graphic art. “The Promise” was inspired by my hopes of getting outside for a summer hike in the mountains, like Mandy and I did on Mt. Rainier a few years ago. Read on to view the image.
I started by vectorizing a photograph of a tree I liked, added layers of mountain horizon, and planted a vertical rainbow right behind the tree. Also, I used various grunge brushes to make the sun, and to add some scratches.
I picked a vertical rainbow because I like to think of rainbows being so large, that at the point where they intersect the horizon, they appear to be linear, straight up and down. To me this symbolizes both the enormity of rainbows as well as the enormity of God’s promise to Noah. 1
- Rainbows typically take the shape of an arc because of how light is dispersed (refracted and reflected) through drops of water in the atmosphere. As far as I know, rainbows are never exactly straight. The closest thing I’m aware of is a curcumhorizontal arc (AKA fire rainbow). ↩
9 August 2007 — Terms: art • grapics • photography