The beautiful visions of star systems dancing in Lara Mayhew’s art, number 1
Sketch by Lara Mayhew, Details by Peter Mayhew
It being the festive season I thought I would post some fun art work by my daughter, Lara (aged 4). This was created in a device known as an “Art spinner” which spins a small card around very fast, and you drop poster-paint onto it with a dropper. It creates all sorts of nice astronomical effects. The challenge is trying to match the effects created with astronomical objects that you have yourself observed. I have my own ideas for each of these, but I’d be interested to see other peoples’ suggestions.
Lara’s star systems, number 2
Sketch by Lara Mayhew, details by Peter Mayhew
Peter Mayhew, York, UK
Lara, Peter
I open my mind and I see:
1-st picture:
This is the beginning of Blue Dwarf galactic river…
2-nd picture:
This is synapse of space green brain…
😀 Have fun…
Marek
Lara,
Your compositions are beautiful.
First I see a view of the universe from inside a globular cluster. Second I see a protostar warming up as matter falls in.
Frank 🙂
Lara says thanks for the nice comments and ideas! Here are my, somewhat less imaginative suggestions:
In the first picture I see the edge of the small sagittarius star cloud (M24) and also the fish’s mouth in the great nebula in Orion (M42). In the second picture I see the iris nebula (NGC 7023 and Caldwell 4).
Peter 🙂