As Above.

Drawing painting FINEART Space nasa hubble Realism light pastel

'"The Perilous Question"
19"x25" Soft Pastel on Canson Black Mat. NGC 4038 (left) and NGC 4039 (right). The Antennae Galaxies, a pair of colliding Galaxies in the constellation Corvus.

"Grace: When the Walls Fell"

19"x25" Soft Pastel on Black Canson Mat. NGC 6302, The Butterfly Nebula, a bipolar planetary nebula in the constellation Scorpius.

"Oncoming"

18"x24" Soft Pastel on Black Canson Mat. Messier 66 Galaxy.

"The Shell, The Pearl, and the 11,000 Divide."

16"x20" Soft Pastel on Canson Black Mat. NGC 3603 (left) and NGC 3576 (right). The Open Star Cluster in the Carina Spiral and the Minor Nebula in Sagittarius respectively are 11,000 light years apart, but overlap in our field of view from our position in space.

"Orion's Lights"

18"x24" Soft Pastel on Canson Black Mat. The Orion Nebula painted in all light spectrum, from infrared to ultraviolet - where red light and infrared light are both represented red, pink to brown, and ultraviolet is violet.

"The Sound of Color"
14"x18" Soft Pastel on Strathmore Black Illustration paper. RAFGL 2688 Bipolar Protoplanetary Nebula. The central star is obscured by thick dust.

"The Tomb of Blue"

18"x24" Soft Pastel on Canson Black Mat. NGC 2818 Planetary Nebula in the Southern Constellation Pyxis (The Compass).

"Smoky Jove"
18"x24" Soft Pastel on Canson Black Mat. A composite of Jupiter's central band region with the Great Red Spot and several satellite storms.

"Ancient Irregular"

8"x10" Soft Pastel on Strathmore Black Illustration paper. My idea of an ancient, irregular galaxy. All the stars red and bloated, it's central core meandering through space, almost completely pulled apart.

Work In Progress - 18"24" Acrylic on stretched canvas. Imagining a star-birth region inside a nebula with the heart of its corresponding blue start cluster looking over its shoulder.