When life gives you lemons, draw them, 11 x 14 inches dry pastels, graphite on paper

"When life gives you lemons, draw them." (Nikki)

"Color! What a deep and mysterious language." (Paul Gauguin)

Archive for August, 2023

Creative Minds 2023

Tuesday, August 15th, 2023

 

Cycad Leaf Fossil Chair, Homage to the history of Earth, 29 x 29 x 29 inches, refurbished vintage chair, woven canvas strips, plaster cured, sanded, carved, extinct Myalina fossils, acrylics, varnish, waxed. Functional, durable.

Cycad Leaf Fossil Chair, homage to the history of Earth, 29H x 29W x 29D inches up-cycled plastic vintage chair base, woven canvas strips, layers of plaster gradually cured, sanded and carved. Painted with acrylics, finished with varnish, and waxed to enhance colors. Functional art, very comfortable, durable.  Now being showcased at Creative Minds – 2023 exhibition, August 15 – Oct. 15, organized by Exhibizone and powered by @Biafarin platform.

       
  Starting to carve front right detail of Fossil Chair Cycad Fossil Chair, first paint application after first carved surface Fossil Chair, Homage to Earth and Trees, carved front left detail
  Fossil Chair, carved front right detail Fossilized Myalina shells and stones, back details of Fossil Chair Back details of Fossil Chair, fossilized shells and stones, painted patterns of Paleozoic Lepidodendron - first trees on Earth - bark with leaf scars
    Myalina Fossils I found in Dallas, Texas USA Encyclopedia Brittanica entry about the extinct Myalina fossil

Creative Minds 2023 Exhibizone - Biafarin certificateThe front of this chair is a rendition of the fossil of a Cycad leaf from the first species of palm-like trees that grew about 50 million years ago. The original Cycad leaf fossil was discovered in a Wyoming riverbed. The circumference on the back of this chair has an informal mosaic embedded with pebbles and authentic fossils of an extinct clam I found in a playground in the Dallas, Texas area.  The extinct genus of shells called Myalina are estimated to be 345 – 225 – million years old.
Completing the back of the chair, the surface is textured along with patterns of the bark and leaf scars of a fossilized Paleozoic Lepidodendron, a primitive species of the very first trees on earth, reaching heights of 130 feet (40 m) tall, with leaves that grew flat directly along the bark around 400 million years ago.

In Full Bloom 2023

Friday, August 11th, 2023

 

Eucalyptus Flowers and Seed Pods, 20H x 16W inches acrylics on canvas

In Full Bloom 2023 Silver Award for Eucalyptus Flowers and Seed PodsEucalyptus Flowers and Seed Pods, 20H x 16W inches acrylics on canvas with weathered-look wood frame, has won a Silver Award in the 2023 In Full Bloom Online Art Exhibition at J. Mane Gallery, August 14th through Sept.