The Pinwheel galaxy

A combination of art and astronomy. Both a great passion of mine. A depiction of the Pinwheel galaxy. This galaxy, just as our own Milky way, consists out of billions of stars. In this work I have tried to represent the spiral arms and by adding some stars on the foreground it looks like you’re gazing through the foreground stars, and there, billions of light years away, you find the Pinwheel galaxy. Initially, colours have been applied simply by brush. Then, however, smeared out with palette knife after which it has been smeared out into the shape of the spiral arms, this time with a hardened brush. During the drying process the paint has blended and thus resembles the clouds of dust and gas which are present in galaxies. For more questions about this work, feel free to get in touch with me.