This is a small watercolor I did of a Spanish princess in the early 17th century during the reign of Philip III. I love drawing the ornate, high flaring collars as well as the high boned bodice and full flowing opulent skirts of this extravagant period of nobility. There was a pride in physical beauty and refinement in the art of accentuating clothes that were sustained by the 16th and 17th centuries luxurious materials such as rich heavy garments, thick embroidery as well as sumptuous jewels and fragile, detailed lace. No other period was given more precious adornments to attain the perfection of human beauty. This image is based off the 1615 painting Portrait of a Princess by Sanchez Coello.
Voyager 1
Here is a little watercolor I did of Voyager 1. Scientists are still receiving Voyager dispatches from the unknown that will go silent in the next decade. Voyager spacecrafts left the heliosphere in 2012 and are still under the influence of our sun’s particles and will reach the Oort Cloud in 300 years (a region extends perhaps one-quarter to halfway from our Sun to the next star). When they leave the icy Oort Cloud breaking free of our solar system, they will enter a stretch of interstellar space that does not play by the sun’s rules. There, the sun will become just another star in someone else’s night sky. Its warmth or gravity won’t register, but its glow will radiate for light-years. In all likelihood the Voyagers will still be coasting through the galaxy in 5 billion years and probably long after Earth is gone.
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year. This is when we celebrate the passage of time. The concept of time is fascinating. According to theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli, time is an illusion: our naive perception of its flow doesn't correspond to physical reality. ... Reality is just a complex network of events onto which we project sequences of past, present and future. There's no such thing as "now" as far as physics is concerned. Space and time are fluid, affected by gravity and your speed. Einstein put it like this: "For us physicists, the distinction between past, present and future is only an illusion, however persistent.
