Thank you so much for sharing all of these. Those drawings are so whimsical. I love them! What a lot of great memories you have.
She bragged about your light drawings. Very cool stuff. What a special partnership you two had.
Please feel free to share anything else you want. This has been a delight.
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Thank you @sheralmyst . You are kind and insightful. We did indeed have a wonderful partnership. Which I suppose is why it hurts so much now. Grief is another expression of love. 
It has been lovely to share these works here, with the community that she admired and loved. I will keep my eyes open for other works for sharing. Thank you, everyone, for your appreciation and all the 
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I haven’t yet been able to bring myself to get back into NMS, or any game that we shared in a significant way. I hope that will change in time. Perhaps then I will feel more able to contribute to some of the actual NMS gameplay parts of the forums. 
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@Malveka The internet never actually forgets: Eccentric Orbits Art and Story by J.S.Rowe | Art & Story by J.S.Rowe
There are many web snapshots of the website still available. Hard to find diamonds, but never lost.
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@BlackIris Wow! Thank you so much for providing this link. I wondered if there might not be something like this out there, but wouldn’t have known where to look for it. This is a treasure to me.
I haven’t had the heart yet to start sorting through TravelEcho’s computers. I’m hoping I will at least find all the original scans for the images she has posted over the years. But I’m not sure whether she has a full backup of the e-orbits site or not. If not, well, it’s so good to know this archive exists.
Again… thank you, thank you!
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I’m coordinating with @Malveka and slowly working on both individual and collection displays of TravelEcho’s paintings.
One approach I want to try is a “plain” background of the following types overlaid with a single painting:
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Fly-in starfields (I have plenty of these already)
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Night view of stars (without any fauna, flora, or other planets in the sky) for varied colors, especially ones with a pretty nebula in the night sky.
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“Plain” planetary landscapes of different biome types – both day and night views.
(I plan to soften and blur the backgrounds and overlay a painting related to that type biome.)
If you would like to volunteer some photos that meet the above criteria, feel free to upload here.
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I will need some chill time after my dentist visit tomorrow. Will check thru my screens and maybe snap a few new ones.
Edit: still recovering
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could not make myself do anything yesterday.
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Well, all of my old pics are on my windows drive which I have still not installed…so I got a few from a winter planet. Could not find the planet I really wanted but, if you are going to blur them out, these might work. No offense if they do not. 
Tried to get some space pics but had a hard time getting away from the asteroids. 
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Hey friends, I found some more artwork by TravelEcho I’d like to share with you. I’m still very much involved in sorting through everything in her studio and her work/play area in our (un)common room. There is a lot of it, and treasures are likely to be found layered within stacks of paper towels, plastic containers, dried paint palettes, cockleburs, literal onion skins, punched boardgame pressboards, etc., etc. All the stuff artists save because art can be made from/inspired by anything. 
What I found recently in my on-going archaeological expedition are two sketch books. One dedicated to NMS, filled mainly with notes but also containing sketches in black and white and color. And another sketchbook with a lot of “space/sci-fi” art and generally delightful stuff.
I’ll first post some of the work from the NMS sketch book and then the other more general sketchbook.
Thank you, my beloved TravelEcho, for bringing these wonderful flights of imagination into existence.
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These are a delight! Thanks for sharing.
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I’ll post the images from the other sketchbook tomorrow!
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Thanks for sharing these!
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Here are some images from the other sketchbook. I think these may have been done one of the years she was doing Inktober (inktober.com), but I’m not sure. Regardless, I think you’ll find them a whimsical treat.
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