The Great Age

This is my handmade space art, and some jewelry too. I'm Axel Juárez from Baja California and I would have liked to be an astronaut. Unfortunately, the spacey future imagined in the first half of the XXth century never came to be, and so my only way of visiting other planets it's by painting them. My main themes are terraforming, extrasolar planets, and the Solar System as imagined before the era of the space probes. The colors I use most are blues, reds, purples and pinks. I love painting so much, that when I die an angel looking just like Nicolas Cage will come for me and then he will ask: "What was your favorite thing in life?" And I will say: "Money. And painting as a very close second"

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March 2015 50x40 centimeters. (19.6" x 15.7")

An M-Type star sets over the alien landscape of some faraway planet near a blue globular cluster.  

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Star dream.

Red globular cluster as seen from an alien beach. 

March 2015.

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Perfect Sunset Forever II

March 2015

This planet always gives the same face to its sun, and so there is a line between the perpetual night and the endless day where the sunset lasts forever. 

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Saturn as seen from Enceladus.

Acrylic over gesso over MDF wood. 

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Violet nebula 

February 2015

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Love forever.

February 2015.

A whale-like nebula rises over the desolate landscape of a lifeless world. 

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At the center of the galaxy.

February 2015.

Dead airless planet located within the galactic core. The stars are densely packed in that zone. 

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"Loneliness" February 2015. 63x48 centimeters. Acrylic over gesso over MDF wood.

A redder star than the Sun sets over the desolate landscape of an extrasolar moon.

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Sometimes I do jewelry, but only by comission. 

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December 2014. 

6th part of the Perfect Sunset Series, which started on october 2011.

The title it's a lie: They aren't sunsets, they are twilights. 

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December 2014. 

Solar eclipse as seen from a lunar cloudscape in the 41st millenium.

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A Perfect Sunset V.

5th part of the Perfect Sunset Series, which started on October 2011. 

Beach on a Earth-like moon from the ringed planet we see in the sky. 

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Some planet among the stars we see on the sky every night. 

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Mira A (Red) and Mira B (Blue) shinning over the ammonia ocean of a cold planet which orbits them. 

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Red rectangle nebula.

April 2014.

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Heaven.

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Martian sunset.

The sun sets over the black dunes of Vastitas Borealis, near the martian north pole.