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Painting what you've grown

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,099

    Verdi- creativity isn't just something we can put on paper or canvas image

    Gardens are more like sculpture- three dimensional - and even harder as there are other elements which affect the final result - weather and seasons and soil. 

    You're an artist like any other image

    I'll call you 'Constable' Verd from now on....image

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,099

    gotta blow your own trumpet now and again Verdi!!  image

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • artjakartjak Posts: 4,167

    Verdun, you are a swan, just look in the lake and you'll see....image

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,099

    Verdun- you're only meant to wear those on the weekends....I've told you about that.. image

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • artjakartjak Posts: 4,167

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  • Eddie JEddie J Posts: 108

    There is some very nice pieces of work being shown on here, and I guess whilst many of us can't paint, there is hidden away in all of us, the ability to be creative. It is just a case discovering what that particular thing is.

    I can't paint, or say that I can't as I've never tried, but my creative side is spent playing with wood.  

    Playing with wood is a release away from the day to day job, and gives me a way to switch off and create things for others to enjoy.

    In relation to creating art that features plants etc of the garden, I like to create things to compliment what is in the garden and give further added interest to it.

    I can delete the following example if it isn't seen to fit the thread. I've chosen it as it carved into a tree that we cut down, so extending the useful life of the tree, and it also has another element that I enjoy. It is decaying. Art becomes very stale and I like to see it change. By rotting away, the carving will change and eventually just disappear. Whilst this process is happening, life is given to fungi and various insects etc. It is kind of harmony and balance image

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    http://imageshack.us/a/img822/1926/dscf9817k.jpg

     

     

    Obviously I have many more examples of work/art, but don't want to add to the thread if it isn't seen as suitable.

     

     

     

     

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,441

    I like that Eddie. Decay as part of art, I like that too image



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,099

    Eddie that is beautiful!

    And you've even carved me on it...how kind...image

    A while ago someone posted pix of their Dad's ivy sculptures which everyone enjoyed so...yes..I'd say they're totally suitable!  How talented you are - and it's a living sculpture which is even better image

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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