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.
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