Featured Artist Craig Burt has provided us with a breakdown of one of his paintings that provides us with a look into how the picture came about. Here is some of the article created by Craig:

"Past and Present"
This one is the painting chosen by our Jedi Power for the 'icon' link image for the painting gallery at Galactic Voyage.
1. Is, or, is not the start of the painting, depending on your perspective. This picture is from a 1996 Cinescape magazine article on the resurgence of Star Wars in novel form; If you can't make it out, it's a drawing of Darth Vader sitting in the candlelight reading.
Now go to 2003. With the magazine forgotten, I've had an idea to do a painting with Vader in the dark looking at a hologram of Padmé, which I've never got around to doing. Then I get an email from Sandra Mosch the webmaster of http://www.thenextamidala.com/ - who I've sent some paintings too - suggesting much the same idea. I also think I had someone else email the same idea when talking about one of my paintings; but I can't remember who. Obviously, looking back, the painting idea came from the magazine - but not consciously. Everything in human society is built on something else; every painting, story, invention, consciously or not. Did Sandra or the other emailer see the same magazine? Don't know, didn't ask them. All this makes me wonder who gets the credit for the painting, George Lucas probably.
Be sure to read the rest of the article about "Past and Present" in the Painting by Numbers section. Thanks Craig for another great walkthrough of how this image came about! Enjoy!
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