Diana Battefeld, Diva, (80x60cm), 2018, [Oil on canvas]. In playing the violin, it may be instructive to know what is going physically when the fingers are pressed upon the fingerboard and the bow slides on the string to carry the right kind of sound. From a purely physical point of view, when a string vibrates …
Diana Battefeld, Butterfly, 2015 [Oil on Canvas]. After an image of NGC 6302, photographed by NASA’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team. Aleksander Friedmann did not live to see the impact of his discovery. He died in 1925. The significance of his work was not appreciated until two years …
In this part of the blog I will explain in detail the decisions I take, the techniques, the colors and type of brushes I use to make the paintings from the very beginning so that if you decide to start painting on your own, you can use this as a guide. Painting astronomical objects in …
Diana P. Battefeld, A Dash Against the Green, 2016 [Oil on Canvas].
Diana P. Battefeld (2015.) Strong Gravitational Lensing, Diana P. Campion, 2016 [Oil on Canvas].
Our Milky Way, Diana P. Battefeld, 2016 [Watercolor on Paper].
Diana P. Battefeld, Just a Blob of Gas in Space, 2015 [Oil on Canvas]. Planetary Nebula NGC 2371 – This blob of gas shows the remains of a star that ended its evolutionary life as a white dwarf (this is the fate of our sun in about 5 billion years). The star in the middle …
Diana P. Battefeld, Genie, 2015 [Oil on Canvas]. After a composite image NASA/CXC/CfA D.Evans et al, NASA/STScI, STFC/JBO/MERLIN. This painting depicts a jet from a black hole at the center of a galaxy striking the edge of another galaxy, which deflects it. This false color image combines X-rays (purple), optical and ultraviolet (red and orange) …
Diana P. Battefeld, Horizon Crossed, 2015 [Oil on Canvas]. After a private correspondence with A. Hamilton, a world’s expert on black hole simulations. A common view of what an observer would see if she crossed the horizon of a Schwarzschild black hole and lowers herself towards a singularity is the following: as she approaches a …