The piece of art that I have painted depicts the sky during a colorful sunset, and also includes a silhouette of a carousel on the beach in the foreground of the work. The sunset in the painting is at the peak time in regards to the amount of colors that are scattered throughout the sky. I incorporated all of these ideas into my painting due to the fact that they present important concepts in regards to physics phenomena. The emission of light waves from the sun includes the visible light spectrum, so the colors are visible to the human eye. When the waves of light pass through the different layers of the Earth’s atmosphere, the beam of light can strike either an oxygen or nitrogen molecule in the air, and cause scattering the happen. Scattering
