Evolution Of A Painting: Woman In Water

The idea for this painting came to me pretty much fully formed: an image of a woman emerging from a pool of water, hair slicked back, bathed in splashes of vibrant, exaggerated and highly unrealistic lighting. I started with a quick sketch and divided it up into a grid.

I then divided up the canvas into an equivalent grid and used the sketch as a rough guideline. I was working fast here and not very much concerned with accurately capturing the sketch so this was more to keep it from falling horribly off the rails rather than a measured approach to accuracy of any kind.

In Search Of Extraterrestrial Intelligence

The abundance of worlds is perhaps only rivalled by their variety. Habitable world configurations exist around single-, binary-, and triple-star systems, around red and yellow dwarf stars, as planets and as moons, in mass ranges from 0.8 to 5.5 Earth masses, with very long and very short orbital periods, and with days lasting from a few hours to several months.

The science of planet formation is not sufficiently well developed to exclude solar systems that do not resemble our own. Indeed it seems the laws of physics as we understand them allow for as much variety of star systems as there are initial conditions. It makes sense then, to not presume what kinds of worlds we can expect to find based on our sample size of one.