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Writer's pictureNancy Holleran

Closed System Entropy Challenge Continues

Updated: Dec 5, 2018

After several attempts and of course with some guidance from Dana , I was able to move in a closer directions to depicting/interpreting the physicist's work. The abstract approach does not come easy to a watercolor artist who does realism so had to ease into it with a portrait of Dana working while also doing volunteer work In Jamaica. Followed by a tryptic showing stages of entropy. Groping for inspiration, I went to NASA's Hubble site and found Carina nebula. This allowed me to interpret colors to be used..red (sulfur), blue-white(oxygen) and blue(Hydrogen).My focus was on a star birth changing low entropy material into high entropy heat and radiation and ultimately running out of fusion material.I have pictures in gallery called Entropy. Hopefully I have captured the essence of a complicated and abstract aspect of 2nd Law thermodynamics! Dana and i need to meet in person for final thoughts..what a great experience! Much thanks Stephanie for this creating this fun and challenging project



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Stephanie Bailey
Stephanie Bailey
Dec 05, 2018

Hi Nancy. The photos are so small. Would it be possible to edit the post and make them bigger?

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Leslie Morgan
Dec 05, 2018

So beautiful, Nancy!

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