| The plot twist with this landscape is that there is no actual land in it. It's all ice and dust and helium and ammonia and methane and nitrogen, but no dirt. That's because this "landscape" is set on Enceladus, a moon of Saturn. This moon is almost entirely made of water ice, which miles under the surface is subject to the forces pressure, friction, radioactivity and various chemical reactions, to form (probably) large underground oceans of liquid water. The water under the crust of Enceladus behaves in many ways like the magma under the crust of Earth. That is, the water occasionally squeezes its way through cracks and vents in the surface to form volcanoes. These water and ice volcanoes are called "Cryovolcanoes", and the ice that shoots out of them actually makes up a lot of the fainter, outer rings of Saturn. Anyway, I'm going to stop pretending that I intend to talk about anything other than Bob Ross for the majority of this blog post. He taught me everything I know about painting landscapes. I used to be rather intimidated by the concept of painting landscapes, because they are big and complicated and lacked consistent anatomical features and probably contained spiders somewhere in the picture. Luckily, my painting is set at least 1.02 billion kilometers away from the closest spider, so I don't have to worry about that last one. Anyway, after watching several hundred Bob Ross episodes over the course of the eight-day online Bob Ross marathon, I learned: A) Landscapes aren't so tough B) Bob Ross beats down the devil with his bear hands, calling upon the power stored in his afro C) Every single note to that cursed credit song D) Twitch memes are strange Unfortunately, Bob Ross didn't cover planetscapes, so I encountered some problems with where exactly to put Saturn's rings, but I just did as Bob Ross would and put down some shapes without worrying too much about it, and everything turned out okay. Also, this is important: |
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