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Rob Rey
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Art of Science and the Cosmic Perspective Human Made Oil Paintings More Art: https://www.robreyart.com Prints: https://robrey.storenvy.com
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Rob Rey @robreyart.bsky.social · Nov 15
Cosmic Perspective is using the insights of modern science to see the big picture of the world and our place in it with a sense of belonging and connection. It provides an inspiring scientific origin story of humanity, united by our shared atomic history as stardust and genetic evolution.
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Rob Rey @robreyart.bsky.social · 28d
Night Migration
Oil, 30x20in, 2024
at @ixarts.bsky.social Art Show next month!

In our night sky there is a dark band that runs through the Milky Way, known as the Great Rift. This darkness is where the stars of our galaxy are obscured by vast clouds of interstellar dust and geese … er, gas.
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Rob Rey @robreyart.bsky.social · Aug 19
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Rob Rey @robreyart.bsky.social · Aug 19
Flyby
8 x 6 inches

A new tiny painting coming to @everydayoriginal.bsky.social tomorrow morning (8/20)!

www.everydayoriginal.com

#oilpainting #moon
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Rob Rey @robreyart.bsky.social · Aug 18
Detail of a new tiny painting coming to @everydayoriginal.bsky.social this Wednesday!
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Rob Rey @robreyart.bsky.social · Jul 13
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Rob Rey @robreyart.bsky.social · Jul 13
My last card for Magic: The Gathering's Edge of Eternities set has been posted. Filling this scene with all sorts of swirly, nebulous clouds was a great time.
Fabled Passage
Art Director: Zack Stella
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Original painting available here:
www.facebook.com/groups/mtgar...
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Rob Rey @robreyart.bsky.social · Jul 9
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Rob Rey @robreyart.bsky.social · Jul 9
Another card for Magic: The Gathering's Edge of Eternities set has just been posted! A bit of a different subject for me, but it was a good time creating this writhing soup of slivers.
Art Director: Taylor Ingvarsson
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Original painting available here: www.facebook.com/groups/mtgar...
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Rob Rey @robreyart.bsky.social · Jun 23
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Rob Rey @robreyart.bsky.social · Jun 23
Oil, 18x24in

New for MtG, Edge of Eternities! It was a lot to fit into a card, but I enjoyed the opportunity to paint the black hole.

Offers for the original painting are being heard until Thursday night. More info:
www.facebook.com/groups/mtgar...

#mtg #magicthegathering
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Rob Rey @robreyart.bsky.social · Jun 12
Reaching Europa
18x24 in, Oil, 2015

An allegory of our scientific aspirations to explore Jupiter's moon, Europa. As the video below from NASA explains, Europa holds intriguing possibilites for finding life beyond Earth.
NASA Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz9V...

Prints: robrey.storenvy.com
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Rob Rey @robreyart.bsky.social · May 29
Fusion Lighting the Stars
18x24 in, Oil, 2020

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Rob Rey @robreyart.bsky.social · May 29
Fusion Lighting the Stars
18x24 in, Oil, 2020

Stars are a balance of two enormous forces: gravity and nuclear fusion. Much of their mass will be crushed, but in the process, many will fuse carbon, the other elements of life, and become parts of new solar systems.

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Rob Rey @robreyart.bsky.social · May 19
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Rob Rey @robreyart.bsky.social · May 19
Voyager Passing A Nebula
6x8 in, Oil
On EveryDayOriginal.com tomorrow!

Voyager's golden record is projected to last a BILLION years in space. How long is a billion years? In a billion years the continents of Earth would be so altered that we would not recognize the surface of our own planet.
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Rob Rey @robreyart.bsky.social · May 17
Detail of a new tiny painting coming to EveryDayOriginal.com on Tuesday, 5/20!
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Rob Rey @robreyart.bsky.social · Apr 22
Overview
Oil, 24x24in, 2020

Happy Earth Day! The Overview Effect is a cognitive shift in awareness reported by some astronauts while viewing the Earth from space. National boundaries vanish, encouraging a sense of unity with all of humanity and life on Earth.

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Rob Rey @robreyart.bsky.social · Apr 11
Moon Lander
16x12in, Oil

Character in Context, the largest exhibition of original illustration in the Western U.S. opening May 2! At the A.R. Mitchell Museum of Western Art in Trinidad, CO, with several artists in attendance. Demonstrations, gallery talks on Saturday May 3!
armitchellmuseum.com
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Rob Rey @robreyart.bsky.social · Mar 20
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Rob Rey @robreyart.bsky.social · Mar 20
I highly recommend checking out the animations of Drew Berry and WEHI to help visualize the amazing molecular processes happening inside you at all times. youtu.be/WFCvkkDSfIU?...
Animations of unseeable biology | Drew Berry | TED
YouTube video by TED
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Rob Rey @robreyart.bsky.social · Mar 20
Just to get back to the point where our ancestor was some kind of fish is roughly 185 million generations that had to survive and pass on their genes so that you could experience this world, with all its heartache, and its wonder.
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Rob Rey @robreyart.bsky.social · Mar 20
These 7 octillion atoms are arrayed in astonishing complexity to create 500 trillion cells of numerous types, each with its own suite of exquisite molecular machines, precisely folded proteins, and ordered genetic code. It’s hard to comprehend how long it took for this intricate system to evolve.
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Rob Rey @robreyart.bsky.social · Mar 20
...how intricately organized they are to facilitate life, and the oceans of time it took for evolution to shape them into that configuration. The average human body is comprised of more atoms than there are stars, not just in our galaxy, but in the visible universe.
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Rob Rey @robreyart.bsky.social · Mar 20
We are a staggeringly complex and unique collection of natural components, come together for a short, precious moment.

If you’re disappointed by the realization that we are “just” collections of atoms, then you may want to consider more deeply the unfathomable multitude of those atoms...
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