The Dream Fulfilled
Commissioned by Brian Jones

Medium: Gouache and Pencil on 20 x 30 inch CS2 art board.

It was a great honour to be asked by successful 'around the world' balloonist Brian Jones to commit his and Bertrand Piccard's epic flight to canvas.
The painting took about 170 hours to paint with many visuals produced before the final design was chosen.
The clouds represent the atmosphere and the mountains the terrain of the Earth. The  route taken by Orbiter 3 is shown on the "Flat Earth" at the bottom and the darkened part of the Earth not only represents night time, but I have tried to make it look like a satellite weather image as a tribute to those who found the balloon favourable weather systems.  I have also included Brian's lucky Teddy bear and Bertrand's football that sung Ole Ole.

Image size is 1000 x 671 pixels

The image is available as a postcard and hopefully there will be a limited edition print of the image, signed by both pilots. It will be a small edition so if you are interested  in owning a copy, please email me with your details.

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