...In the time since then, your atoms have been part of many things: oceans and oaks, dinosaurs and dandelions, foxes and fireflies. One day they will move on, scattered and woven into many more incarnations before eventually returning to space in nebulous clouds to birth new stars.
Return to the Stars
8x6in
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Some of your atoms, mostly hydrogen, come from the beginning of the universe. Many more were created in the super novae of ancient dying stars.
Detail of a new tiny painting coming to everydayoriginal.com this Friday, 2/20.
Early philosophers used to believe we could understand the world simply by thinking about it, that what made sense to us must be true. But, Observation showed us that the universe often does not conform to our expectations or desires.
Observation
24x20in, 2014
In science, Observation leads the way. We may not always like what we see, particularly if it runs against our cherished beliefs, but if we accept it with humility, we will find ourselves better able to confront the problems we face.
Prints: robrey.storenvy.com
Human wellbeing benefits greatly from the experience and practice of gratitude. We don’t spend much time thinking about our magnetosphere, but it’s one of the many extraordinary things that make life possible on Earth. This can be reminder to take notice of other things we may be taking for granted.
Luckily, movements within earths molten metal core generate a protective magnetic shield around our home planet. Without our magnetosphere to protect us, the solar wind may have long ago stripped away our atmosphere, leaving Earth looking much more like Mars looks today: barren, dry, and lifeless.
Magnetosphere, an allegory
30 x 24 in, Oil on panel, 2021, homage to Fumée D'Ambre Gris by John Singer Sargent.
In addition to the warmth and light we receive daily, our sun expels a constant barrage of dangerous charged particles called the solar wind.
Prints: robrey.storenvy.com
A little light for the season's dark days, the light of life and the natural world.
Bioluminescence : Altruism
16 x 12 in, Oil on panel, 2020
Prints available: robrey.storenvy.com
In the face of daunting challenges the human capacity for reason provides a light of hope. Our abilities to understand the world around us through scientific methods and to develop new technology have made us the first species in Earth’s four and a half billion year history to bring life to the moon
Flyby
16 x 12 in, oil on panel
This painting also debuted, and sold, at the IX Art Show last month. Prints Available: robrey.storenvy.com
The first step to landing on a new world is getting a closer look.
Nebulae
12 x 16 in, oil on panel
A new painting from an earlier study, Nebulae debuted at the IX Art Show. It's now back and on my website, original and prints.
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If we were to visit either world, we would have a hard time breathing, among other problems, because at these temperatures even oxygen freezes to snow.
The most distant planet in our solar system experiences the strongest sustained winds - up to 1,300 miles per hour - over eight times faster than the winds of a Category 5 hurricane. Its largest moon, Triton, hosts the coldest known surface temperature: just 38 Kelvin (or -391°F).
The Winds of Neptune
24 x 18 in, Oil
This new painting from an earlier study will be coming with me to the @ixarts.bsky.social Arts Show in Reading PA, next week!
#cosmicperspective
Night Migration
Oil, 30x20in, 2024
at @ixarts.bsky.social Art Show next month!
In our night sky there is a dark band that runs through the Milky Way, known as the Great Rift. This darkness is where the stars of our galaxy are obscured by vast clouds of interstellar dust and geese … er, gas.
My last card for Magic: The Gathering's Edge of Eternities set has been posted. Filling this scene with all sorts of swirly, nebulous clouds was a great time.
Fabled Passage
Art Director: Zack Stella
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Original painting available here:
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Another card for Magic: The Gathering's Edge of Eternities set has just been posted! A bit of a different subject for me, but it was a good time creating this writhing soup of slivers.
Art Director: Taylor Ingvarsson
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Original painting available here: www.facebook.com/groups/mtgar...
Oil, 18x24in
New for MtG, Edge of Eternities! It was a lot to fit into a card, but I enjoyed the opportunity to paint the black hole.
Offers for the original painting are being heard until Thursday night. More info:
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#mtg #magicthegathering
Reaching Europa
18x24 in, Oil, 2015
An allegory of our scientific aspirations to explore Jupiter's moon, Europa. As the video below from NASA explains, Europa holds intriguing possibilites for finding life beyond Earth.
NASA Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz9V...
Prints: robrey.storenvy.com
Fusion Lighting the Stars
18x24 in, Oil, 2020
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Fusion Lighting the Stars
18x24 in, Oil, 2020
Stars are a balance of two enormous forces: gravity and nuclear fusion. Much of their mass will be crushed, but in the process, many will fuse carbon, the other elements of life, and become parts of new solar systems.
Prints: robrey.storenvy.com
Voyager Passing A Nebula
6x8 in, Oil
On EveryDayOriginal.com tomorrow!
Voyager's golden record is projected to last a BILLION years in space. How long is a billion years? In a billion years the continents of Earth would be so altered that we would not recognize the surface of our own planet.