Morgan Baerwaldt (Photo Credit: Abigail Weibel)
Major: electrical engineering
Genre/Medium: watercolor
About the work: This piece compares the sizes of (16) Psyche to Earth and the Moon. If the Earth were the size of a small grapefruit, Psyche would be the size of a poppy seed. That’s food for thought!
Major: electrical engineering
Genre/Medium: vector drawing
About the work: This project was made in Inkscape, an open source vector drawing program. The idea behind the piece was to show both Psyches, and to evoke the idea that even as the spacecraft approaches, we will still be in the dark, so to speak, about the nature of Psyche the asteroid. The high contrast brings out the excitement building towards the spacecraft’s eventual arrival.
Major: electrical engineering
Genre/Medium: digital drawing
About the work: I created an 8-panel Warhol/pop art-inspired drawing of Psyche in orbit. The image features a repeated image of the spacecraft drawn with a bright, limited color palette. I used Inkscape to draw a very basic vector outline of the Psyche spacecraft and played around with using the Psyche acolor palette.
Major: electrical engineering
Genre/Medium: felt-tip ink pens and watercolor on cold press watercolor paper
About the work: I figured that a visual comparison would probably help people imagine the size of the craft more than the descriptions alone. School buses are a really common, relatable size, so I chose to use those for the first two illustrations. I added in a six foot tall bus driver, who is clearly very confused about why the Psyche bus is sitting next to his bus, to make the drawing more fun and add more context. I chose to show Psyche sitting on top of a tennis court. While not every body knows the where the singles lines are on a tennis court, most people have seen a tennis court and can see the relationship. It turns out that a standard interior door, something that most people probably walk through every day, is nearly exactly the height of Psyche’s booms and antenna reflector. I used felt-tip ink pens and watercolor on cold press watercolor paper. I drew it in pencil, inked over it in pen, erased extra marks, and then watercolored over that.
