At the beginning of the year, picked up some old tattoo magazines with some great examples of vintage portrait tattoo which I wanted to study and use more real tone colours on paper, below are four that are finished though as usual, there’ll be coming in the future. Really enjoyed the stylisation of portraiture with …
A short tale of sickness and fever… Here I come to rattle your bones!My blood eyes roll within your skull!Red tongues loll out,I spit then startTo make a space for human hearts. On the Oceans upon the tidesI ink the souls, I poison minds,From Papua drifting in the breezeThe Borneo coast, the China SeasSulawesi and …
A tale of Karma in the Kush. In the overgrown stillness of the jungle nightLit by the light of the Moon, Three crooked faces wait for a fourthThey hope that he will be there soon. Sinister schemes and unhatched plansPatience meets its limit, And the night time waits for no-oneAs it ticks through it’s midnight …
The Moon is Earth’s only proper natural satellite. At one-quarter the diameter of Earth (comparable to the width of Australia), it is the largest natural satellite in the Solar System relative to the size of its planet, and the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System overall (larger than any dwarf planet). Orbiting Earth at …
Main image https://esahubble.org/projects/fits_liberator/fitsimages/slawomir_lipinski_05/ The Cat’s Paw Nebula, also known as the Bear Claw Nebula, is an emission nebula in Scorpius. The nebula is about 50 light years across and lies at an approximate distance of 5,500 light years from Earth. It is one of the nearest H II regions to the solar system. It has the …
The Helix Nebula is a large planetary nebula located approximately 695 light years from Earth in Aquarius constellation. It is the nearest bright nebula to our solar system. The nebula’s striking appearance earned it the nickname the Eye of God. The Helix Nebula is a popular object for amateur astronomers and can be observed with binoculars, …
The Carina Nebula is a bright, large emission nebula surrounding the star Eta Carinae located in the southern constellation Carina. It is also sometimes called the Eta Carinae Nebula, the Grand Nebula, or the Great Nebula in Carina. The nebula’s designation in the New General Catalogue is NGC 3372. It is one of the largest diffuse …
Resources, papers an information The Tarantula Nebula is a large emission nebula located in the southern constellation Dorado. The star-forming region lies within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and one of the nearest galaxies to our own, located on the border between Dorado and Mensa. The nebula is also known as …
papers and links (updated) The Lagoon Nebula, or Messier 8 (M8), is a large interstellar cloud classified as an emission nebula and an H II region. The nebula is located in Sagittarius Constellation, within the Milky Way Galaxy. It lies in the direction of the galaxy’s centre. The nebula’s designation in the New General Catalogue is NGC …
Resources, papers and information (updated) The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a diffuse nebula situated in the Milky Way, being south of Orion’s Belt in the constellation of Orion. It is one of the brightest nebulae, and is visible to the naked eye in the night sky. It is 1,344 ± 20 light-years (412.1 ± 6.1 pc) away and is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth. The M42 …
