Painter Essent. - Piling on some impasto-like paint helped me bring into view a planet similar to Earth in some of its geological appearance, but with elements that are quite different from ours and possibly not habitable to us without our wearing special suits. The planet, in fact, is mostly an intricate system of table-top bodies of a highly organic material and a muddy orange molasses-thick body of an unknown liquid element (not pictured here) that flows from some steep cone-shaped mountains into large pools of the stuff.