Return to the Stars 8x6in Friday on EveryDayOriginal.com 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.

Detail of a new tiny painting coming to everydayoriginal.com this Friday, 2/20.

Observation 24x20in, 2014 In science, Observation leads the way. We may not always like what we see, particularly if it runs against our cherished beliefs, but if we accept it with humility, we will find ourselves better able to confront the problems we face. Prints: robrey.storenvy.com

Magnetosphere, an allegory 30 x 24 in, Oil on panel, 2021, homage to Fumée D'Ambre Gris by John Singer Sargent. In addition to the warmth and light we receive daily, our sun expels a constant barrage of dangerous charged particles called the solar wind. Prints: robrey.storenvy.com

A little light for the season's dark days, the light of life and the natural world. Bioluminescence : Altruism 16 x 12 in, Oil on panel, 2020 Prints available: robrey.storenvy.com

Flyby 16 x 12 in, oil on panel This painting also debuted, and sold, at the IX Art Show last month. Prints Available: robrey.storenvy.com The first step to landing on a new world is getting a closer look.

Nebulae 12 x 16 in, oil on panel A new painting from an earlier study, Nebulae debuted at the IX Art Show. It's now back and on my website, original and prints. robreyart.com

The Winds of Neptune 24 x 18 in, Oil This new painting from an earlier study will be coming with me to the @ixarts.bsky.social Arts Show in Reading PA, next week! #cosmicperspective

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.

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 ___ Original painting available here: www.facebook.com/groups/mtgar...

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 ___ Original painting available here: www.facebook.com/groups/mtgar...

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

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

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. Prints: robrey.storenvy.com

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.

Detail of a new tiny painting coming to EveryDayOriginal.com on Tuesday, 5/20!

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. Prints: robrey.storenvy.com

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

A Galaxy Within II 24 x 18 inches, Oil, 2022 We are each a little galaxy of our own. It's a mind-bending exercise trying to comprehend the 100 billion stars found in a typical galaxy. Yet, each of us has roughly the same number of neurons in our own brain, performing a symphony of consciousness.

Moon Lander, study 8x6 inches, oil on panel A new study for the 2025 Character in Context show, May 2nd - July 19th at the A.R. Mitchell Museum in Trinidad, Colorado! Showcasing the illustrative art of 57 excellent artists and the process that goes into making it. www.armitchellmuseum.com

Finding Light 6 x 8 inches, oil on panel A new tiny painting coming to everydayoriginal.com tomorrow! “In the midst of darkness, light persists.” – Mahatma Gandhi

Detail image of a new tiny painting coming to everydayoriginal.com Thursday, 2/20!

Heliosphere Oil, 18x24in, 2015 Cosmic rays are radiation originating outside our solar system. Without protection from these dangerous high-energy particles, life may not be possible, but the heliosphere surrounds and protects us from most of this onslaught. Prints: robrey.storenvy.com

Looking on Lightyears 24x18 in, 2017 The deeper we look into space, the deeper we are looking back in time! The depths of visible space are so vast that we can see light arriving at earth now that left it's source 13.8 billion years ago, near the beginning of time Prints and original available.

Moondance 40x40 in “Beneath the specifics of all our beliefs, sacred texts, origin stories, and dogmas, we humans have been celebrating the same two things since the dawn of time: astronomy and biology..." - Sasha Sagan, For Small Creature Such as We Prints: robrey.storenvy.com

Bioluminescence: Question, Hypothesis, Experiment Oil, 30x20 in, 2020 The light of life and the scientific method. The process of science has revealed a luminous planet, glowing with the magic of biology, more intricate and amazing than we could have ever imagined. Prints: robrey.storenvy.com

I'm pleased to have three paintings accepted as finalists to this year's Art Renewal Center Salon Competition! Prints: robrey.storenvy.com

Neptune Oil, 8x6 in On EveryDayOriginal.com tomorrow! In 1840s, mathematicians realized that observations of Uranus could be explained by the presence of another, as yet unknown planet. They predicted where this planet would have to be based on Uranus’s orbit and that is where Neptune was found.

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.

I've been interviewed by the Boldbrush Show and the episode has just been released! It's a video podcast in which I talk about meaning and connection through the Cosmic Perspective, getting started as an artist, my working process, and more. Go check it out! artists.boldbrush.com/p/rob-rey-co...

Night Migration 20x30 in, oil In our night sky there is a dark band than 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. Prints: robrey.storenvy.com

Detail image of a new painting from an earlier study that I'll be taking with me to the IX Art Show next week in Reading, PA! Come check it out, it's an amazing collection of art! #IXArtShow #ImaginativeRealism #CosmicPerspective

Climbing the Milky Way 24x20 in, 2014 “A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.” - Carl Sagan, Astronomer Prints: robrey.storenvy.com

Nebular Nook 24x16 in, Oil, 2021 A new star stretches out their solar wind in the nebulous dust of deceased giants. In just a few million years, their charge particles will carve out a bubble like nest for themselves in the dust. Prints: robrey.storenvy.com #cosmicperspective #figurepainting

Dance 24x30 in, Oil, 2016 The dance of galaxies is at once both fast, slow, and ever so graceful. While our solar system races at 220 km/s (490,000 mph) around the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way is so vast that it still takes 240 million years to complete one orbit Prints: robrey.storenvy.com

Pluto Unveiled 16 x 12 inches, oil on panel, 2015 In 2015 the New Horizons spacecraft gave humanity it's first detailed glimpse of Pluto and it's moon, Charon. It takes light 4.6 hours to reach Pluto from Earth. Prints: robrey.storenvy.com #cosmicperspective #newhorizons #scienceart

Nebulae 6x8 in "The notion that our atoms were once part of other people and will again become part of other people after we die provides a meaningful connectedness between us and the rest of humanity, future and past." -Alan Lightman New tiny painting on everydayoriginal.com, tomorrow 8/20/24

Last card for the MtG Bloomburrow set and probably my favorite of the bunch! Nettle Guard for Magic: The Gathering 18 x 24 in Oil on panel Original art auction ends Thursday night in the MtG Art Market group, here on Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/mtgar... #bloomburrow #mtg #mtgart #magicart

Another card for #MtG #Bloomburrow set! A superlatively powerful bat! Starfall Invocation, for MtG's Bloomburrow 18 x 24 in, Oil on Panel AD: Zack Stella Original painting auction runs until Friday evening 7/19: www.facebook.com/groups/mtgar... #mtgart #magicthegathering

Spring, from the four seasons lands painted for Magic: The Gathering's Bloomburrow. The original painting auction will run until Thursday evening 7/18: www.facebook.com/groups/mtgar... Island - Spring, for Magic: the Gathering Oil on panel, 24 x 18 inches AD: Sarah Wassell #MtG #MtGArt #MagicArt

Winter: Next in the four seasons land cards painted for Magic: The Gathering's Bloomburrow set! The original painting auction will run until Tuesday evening 7/16: www.facebook.com/groups/mtgar... Island - Winter Oil on panel, 24 x 18 inches AD: Sarah Wassell #magicart #mtg #magicthegathering

Second of the four seasons painted for Magic: The Gathering's, Bloomburrow. Same scene, same character, four seasons. This is Fall. The original art auction can be found here: www.facebook.com/groups/mtgar... Island - Fall, for Magic: The Gathering Oil on panel, 24 x 18 inches AD: Sarah Wassell

Four land cards for Magic: The Gathering's, Bloomburrow! Same scene, same frog character, in four seasons. This is Summer. The original painting is currently up for auction until Sunday night, here: www.facebook.com/groups/mtgar... Island - Summer Oil on panel, 24x18 in AD: Sarah Wassell

Flow 6 x 8 in, Oil on Yupo, 2021 "If I could label each of my atoms...some will undoubtedly become parts of other people, particular people. So, we are literally connected to the stars, and we are literally connected to future generations of people ... even in a material universe" -Alan Lightman

Waiting to Be Known Oil, 18 x 24, 2015 "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Sharon Begley, Science Writer From an article about astronomer Carl Sagan Prints: robrey.storenvy.com Original: www.robreyfineart.com/collections/...

This illustration for Boy's Life Magazine from a few years back will be participating in the "Character in Context" show along with a slew of amazing work from a great list of artists, next week at the A.R. Mitchell Museum of Western Art!

Bioluminescence IV 18 x 24 in, Oil on Panel, 2016 The light of life and the natural world. The intricacies of biology are miracles of evolution and our consciousness is a gift of natural processes that allow us to experience what it is to be alive. Prints: robrey.storenvy.com

8x6 in, Oil on Panel On EveryDayOriginal.com tomorrow (5/20) An average human cell is estimated to contain 100 trillion atoms and the average human body is estimated to contain 32 trillion cells. We truly are, as Richard Feynman wrote, "a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe." #starstuff

Allegory of Nature A small, 8 x 6 in painting from 2017 "Whatever way it comes out, nature is there and she's going to come out the way she is." - Richard Feynman Prints: robrey.storenvy.com

Overview Oil, 24 x 24 in, 2020 Happy Earth Day! From space, the Earth is immediately understood to be a tiny, fragile ball of life, hanging in the void, shielded by a paper-thin atmosphere. Prints (includes moon to scale): robrey.storenvy.com