Evolution tells us about our history and that informs our understanding of who we are. Having originated in a common single-celled ancestor, from bacteria to trees, reptiles to mammals, all life on earth is one very old and very large family.
Dust of Life
Oil, 24 x 18 inches
This painting and its preliminary study are part of the third annual Character in Context show. The largest exhibition of original illustration in the Western U.S. opening this Friday, June 5th at the A.R. Mitchell Museum of Western Art in Trinidad, Colorado.
Detail of a new tiny painting coming to @everydayoriginal.bsky.social this Wednesday, 5/20!
Detail of a new tiny painting coming to everydayoriginal.com this Friday, 2/20.
... and on the comets and asteroids that our spacecraft have visited. From simple hydrogen and helium created in the Big Bang, the stars have fused the elements and bonded them into the complex molecules necessary for biology over billions of years. The cosmos seems to be primed for life.
A new tiny painting coming to @everydayoriginal.bsky.social tomorrow.
Simple Beginnings
6x8 in, Oil
"There is grandeur in this view of life ... from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."
- Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
Return to the Stars
8x6in
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Some of your atoms, mostly hydrogen, come from the beginning of the universe. Many more were created in the super novae of ancient dying stars.