Dirk's Space Art Page

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Sunrise of a W UMa System - Sunrise in a W UMa system. I did this painting after doing some research work on habitable planets in these binaries.

TU Muscae - A view of the massive overcontact binary TU Muscae.

Cataclysmic Serenity - A binary star sunset from a tropical planet.

Flatirons Fantasy IV - A supernova explodes over the Flatirons.

Flatirons Fantasy II - The first "production" piece of the Flatirons Fantasy series. This one shows an interacting binary with a cool lobe-filling star that is dumping matter onto a white dwarf companion.

Full Moon Storm (after Bierstadt) - I had never done a dark, stormy sky or a breaking wave, so I thought I'd give it a try.

Flatirons Fantasy I - This is the first of a series of paintings I have in mind. I recently moved to Boulder, Colorado and the dominant geological feature here is known as the Flatirons. When it snows, the relief on the flatirons really stands out. I did this one mainly as a proof of concept painting, so there's not a lot of color.

Cold Planet - A view of a Jovian-like planet from an icy moon. This planet orbits the hot,active star and the other hot companion star is off in the distance.

Lake on a Moon - An Earth-like moon with its parent planet off in the distance.

Binary Supernova - A star in a binary system undergoes a supernova explosion. This piece was done for the cover of "Eclipsing Binary Stars: Modeling and Analysis" by Kallrath and Milone.

Some older stuff is here.