Earth As Art

Osso and CW I often paint rocks gathered from here and there. In Texas the rocks are jam packed full of fossils and often when I see a certain rock I will think hmm that looks like this or that I will paint it. But when the painting starts no matter what I had in mind the rock evolves into its own thing and it is always a surprise to me.

I paint about nature too, mostly. And my painting may or may not end up having much to do with the place I was looking at or thinking about.

A friend of mine has put a large beam, with a great deal of effort, in a moving stream and photographed it over a day's time...what you see are the myriad ways the water deals with the underlying beam...which you don't see itself. Then he plays with the photos for different effects. This is all legitimate art to me, I am just not as interested in it as others might be.

I Love the way water moves, it fasinates me. i have and do spend hours watching the stuff, i started going on canoe trips by myself because everyone would get mad at me paddling backwards because the water makes amazing shapes and movement. i do find art fasinating but nature is just so much more.Ossobuco, i do find that too, when someone is using natural matirieals such as leaves or bark i find them to be far more interesting than what they are actually doing with it. i have been told its a little morbid but i find animal skulls to be increadible peices of artwork i have a beaver skull by my bed. to me a skull represnts life, i dont think many people get that. i think it comes from being fasinated by dinosaurs when i was young, i looked at what was left of them and it revealed what was.

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Great link, Joanne. God is an abstract painter. But His pornographic experiments are a bit shocking. Does the concept of "earth pornography" have anything at all to do with the description of gravity as "earth sucks." Excuse me folks. I've been thrown off my mental balance by Farmerman's horrific avatar. I know it's the skull and teeth of a saber tooth tiger, but it grabs me unconsciously as a large biting tarantula.

JL, Horrific? whereya been? Ive had my avatar for a few weeks now and yours is the first negative comment. Maybe everyone else has just been too nice to call my avatar " ugly"
When you look at the skull and consider that this was once a "pinnacle species" I use it more as a reminder to be humble and not so full of ourselves. As anyone can see , the sabre tooth just had to become extinct because

1 The design was a very bad idea

2 It had gone on quite long enough

3 The sabre tooths would constantly be shredding pillows every time they rolled over in their sleep

4They couldnt eat corn on the cob

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Farmerman, even without my arachniphobic response you gave me four reasons to call your toothy image "horrific."