Grass painting

Grass paintings are a type of art used on the planet Alderaan. Botanic artists would use the endless flat grasslands as their canvas. They used flowers as if paint and the wind as if a brush to 'paint' a design.

Grass artists had to apply a five-year license to create their art. The first would be the creation of the work while the others would be the painting becoming a collaboration the artist and the envoroment. The best artists were skilled in metereology, though no one ever succeeded in predicting weather of growth-patterns.

One grass painter, Ob Khaddar, was a troublemaker at Alderaan University. When he heard that the Emperor was coming for a vist, Khaddar decided to create a painting 'to honor the Emperor'. He planted hundreds of thousands of seeds from various flowers to create a painting depicting the Emperor himself. When Palpatine came for a vist he rode on a sail barge to see the glourious potrait.

But when the Emperor, aided by his advisors and his Imperial Guards, black lilies spread out across the Emperor's face, making his skin look old and crippled. The Emperor was outraged, and sent squads of stormtroopers to burn the painting to ashs.

Ob Khaddar left before the Emperor arrived. A bounty was placed on him but no one ever found him.