Topic: CALLING ALL ARTISTS- Let's make an art gallery!

Aug 8, 2018 11:51PM - edited Aug 8, 2018 11:54PM by tinyturtle

Hello -- Just found you all here. I had a hunch that there must be a gang of creatives here somewhere ;) And that poem!

I called this painting "Giant" because she is so small (The girl I referenced was just 4 years old) but seems to be towering over our world. She's oil, spray paint, oil pastel and sharpie marker and probably 40 x 40" I was able to trade her for a painting from another artist I had wanted for years. :)

Aug 10, 2018 11:11AM Amica wrote:

Very striking and beautiful tinyturtle. You are a gifted artist. I love how you captured the expression on her face--her serious mesmerizing gaze.

Aug 11, 2018 08:14AM - edited Aug 11, 2018 08:15AM by JO-5

Aug 11, 2018 11:56AM Wren44 wrote:

What a wonderful project. Be sure to send a pic when it's completed and in place.

Aug 11, 2018 01:47PM - edited Aug 11, 2018 01:50PM by viewfinder

I scrolled through the 30+ pages of this thread. What a lot of beautiful creations and a wide variety of media! Many talented forum participants. Lovely.

I've been a photo enthusiast most of my life. Can't count how many photos I've taken but an injury to my ankle about six years ago significantly impacted my photo taking style and mobility. The following is one of my personal favorites, taken at the Louvre in 2006. It is one of seven photos taken in the Louvre that was exhibited in a photo gallery in Finland.

Aug 11, 2018 06:20PM rachelcarter35 wrote:

Amica thank you. That means a great deal to me as your poem completely blew me away. Mosaic is surprisingly easy compared to stained glass and very satisfying because its more spontaneous and free. Its more like painting in glass. Its also surprisingly quick compared to stained glass.

Aug 12, 2018 05:55AM JO-5 wrote:

Rachel,

Beautiful! I played around with the idea of trying something similar......but I get cellulitis so quickly I was afraid I would cut myself!

I will watch for the finished piece!

Amica,

Wonderful photo. The ladies on the Picture This thread would enjoy seeing this.

Joanne

Aug 18, 2018 07:19PM LoveMyVizsla wrote:

That stained glass! 😮😍

I went to the local university extension;display garden to practivpce my macro work. Loved this dahlia.

Aug 24, 2018 11:09AM - edited Aug 24, 2018 11:33AM by Amica

I fear and admire spiders in equal measure. A poem:

Superior Spiders

Spiders laugh all the time,

only we don't know it.

They love shadow. They love warmth,

suspended in the incalescence they have spun.

How many times have you created

housing that will catch for you your daily meal?

Spiders have it all over us.

They can run a mean 100 millimeter dash,

and disappear into a crack.

Can you? I didn't think so.

Spiders kiss behind the bushes,

and don't bother with addresses like Mr. or Mrs.

Spiders can crash wherever they land,

make a life and home anew

out of mere symmetry and dew.

Even after a nasty fall,

each wears a weather-coated

parachute of sorts that softens all spills

and makes a safe start of all.

Spiders can bite and deploy massive armaments,

against objects twenty thousand times their size.

They can poke you right between your eyes,

as they did my mother, or any other.

Spiders create soundless trilling symphonies

perfect in their arching incalculability.

How did such a small creature

learn of such rhapsody,

without a notebook or a teacher all together?

Have you ever seen a spider forced in line to wait?

Have you ever seen a spider on a date?

Have you ever seen a spider with a mate?

I haven't. Like I said,

spiders have it all over us.

Aug 24, 2018 11:43AM goodprognosis wrote:

Amica. Your poem about spiders is absolutely wonderful....

You won't believe it but about 3 weeks ago I also wrote a poem about spiders!!! Imagine both of us thinking about spiders around the same time and poetically too....

I'll try to find mine and post it tomorrow.

Great stuff on this thread.

GP

Aug 24, 2018 12:31PM - edited Aug 24, 2018 12:37PM by Amica

goodprognosis

I love it! I love how you capture the idea of how the spider might perceive us, as an avalanche, a hurricane or a spinning galaxy....our world...their world...

There is a great article somewhere online about a remarkable spider species that lives for decades, in Australia I think. They build nests in the ground and cover the doorway with a pile of matchstick twigs, and live in that nest for their lifetime, and lay their eggs there. They emerge only to mate I believe. Some biologists have been researching these spiders, and tracking them by counting the number of organized nests that remain year after year. They found one exceptionally long-lived spider, and grew to admire her, only to find recently that wasps had invaded the spider's nest and destroyed it and its home. If I can find the article I'll post the link :)

Aug 25, 2018 09:26PM - edited Aug 25, 2018 09:27PM by LoveMyVizsla

Fair warning, here is a spider photo.it stood out so brightly against the hydrangea.

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Aug 26, 2018 05:33AM goodprognosis wrote:

Hi Amica

Thanks for article link but I couldn't open it on the read free articles section. It wanted me to pay a subscription fee.

Don't worry. Thanks anyway.

GP

Aug 27, 2018 07:43AM goodprognosis wrote:

Hi back Amica

Found an article on Spider 16 in National Geographic. Fascinating. Loved the info about how ancient a species some spiders are.

" Trapdoor spiders are one of the most ancient species on Earth. They first appeared around the Triassic, and have remained relatively unchanged over the hundreds of millions of years compared to other spiders"

Imagine! Here during the Triassic Period...!

Thanks for the info Amica.

GP

Aug 27, 2018 08:00PM - edited Aug 28, 2018 05:07PM by JO-5