The Laws of Nature

I like to devote my weekend blog to things other than reviewing art books. Today, I'll focus on the six paintings in my new series entitled "The Laws of Nature." The overarching concept for this series is to comment on the constraints of the physical laws of nature upon man's attempt to harness and utilize the energy and materials of the universe. The medium is watercolor on Arches CP paper and the size for each is 26" x 20". It takes about one full week to paint each one and I don't use any physical references but prefer to rely on intuition. More will be added to this series as I continue to interpret more "laws" in the future. These paintings are presented below in the order that I painted them:

The Law of Reciprocal Actions

To every action there is always an equal or opposite reaction. Or, the forces of two bodies on each other are always equal and are directed in opposite directions.

Entropy

The total entropy of any system cannot decrease other than by increasing the entropy of some other system. The chance of something becoming orderly is a lot smaller than the chance of something becoming disorderly.

The Universal Law of Gravity

Every massive particle in the universe attracts every other massive particle with a force which is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.

The Law of Inertia
The resistance of any physical object to a change in its state of motion. An object will always continue moving at its current speed and in its current direction until some force causes its speed or direction to change.
The Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics
If two bodies are each in thermal equilibrium with a third body, then all three bodies are in thermal equilibrium with each other.

The Law of the Conservation of Energy
The total amount of energy in an isolated system remains constant over time. Therefore, energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only be transformed from one state to another.