+ Sylvia Talks About Painting “Science”

For this painting I wanted to do something that was visually interesting, somewhat confusing, factually inaccurate that included one of my fantasy beasts. In this case the HippoGiraffaMoose. 

I also threw in Marie Curie and George Washington Carver archetypes and other odd references to radiation, weird chemistry and DNA manipulation. These themes don’t really match up. But together they tell the possible story of the imaginary beast. 

My husband suspects I was drinking cough syrup when I dreamed up this painting, but the truth is that I have a creative imagination and love to paint weird stuff.