The Best Time of the Year for Outdoor Photographers … and Let us not Forget PAINTERS!
I began my interest in ART with oil painting … gave it up several dozen times … bought some acrylics because they dry faster than oils … both an advantage and disadvantage …
then, of course, there is digital painting; but I do miss the smell of linseed oil.
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Enjoy the best time of the year in pictures.
Awesome painting Mac. So life like it is if you are actually there. Reminds me of some of the rural scenes I experienced when living in No. Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley and Mountains in the fall. I loved the smell of the fallen leaves and Fall. But....I don't miss the snow and ice in winter there.
I am not a free hand artist, that was my Father and Brother, who both irked me at times as to how lightly they took their great own natural talent and let it go to waste, while I wanted so badly to have even a bit of their talent. While I have so many artistic ideas and visions in my head, I am unable to put them to paper or canvas. So I have to settle for digital artwork. Even then, I am somewhat limited in how I would like to express what my mind sees.
I so envy those with such a natural talent as you have. But, I do the best I can with what I can do, and challenge myself to keep stretching what I can do with what I have to work with. And I enjoy it.
The process of creating any work of art does not have to be witnessed by its ultimate viewers, listeners, readers, etc. . If the appreciation of art relied upon seeing it executed, the overwhelming percentage of all the art, music and literature ever created, would be mitigated in its impact, effects and ability to move us. Art, in its time of creation, and, for all time after, must "speak" for itself to be lasting, whether it regales us in the present, or, in our understanding of what it means in retrospect.
Very true, Mac. Throughout my years in school and taking art classes, I learned a lot about the different techniques and do's and don'ts. Trying to create stick people was not that easy for me, much less trying to create a human body. They tended to look more like aliens in some horror movie. But, I did try, and I worked hard to try to master the how to's with the help of my Father and Brother. They just could not seem to understand how it was so hard for me when it was so very easy for them.
But, once I learned how to create my artwork digitally, it opened the door to a whole new world. I was able to create custom schematics to scale, and other types of digitally created work. It wasn't until I retired that I began to scope out creating the kind of digital artwork which led me to doing the Native American artwork I am doing now. I am learning more about my own Cherokee Tribe and showing it through my artwork, as well as other Tribes.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so I am hoping that through my Native American artwork I can help others learn more about the customs, traditions and religions of the various Native American Tribes more than they could perhaps understand from simply reading about them.
I see it in your artwork as well. Our artwork tells more about who we are as a person perhaps we realize. Your own love of Mother Earth and her wondrous gifts to humans is displayed through your work, and we can all enjoy it.
If that's a painting rather than a photograph, then your artistic skill is on a level with your photographic one.
stated in black and white
it is an awesome time of year to view natures colorful side
From the song, "Autumn Leaves":
Since you went away, the days grow long,
And soon I'll hear cold winter's song,
But I miss you most of all, my darling,
When Autumn leaves start to fall.
Those are all awesomely beautiful, Buzz. Isn't Mother Nature and Mother Earth just the greatest when it comes to natural artwork of their own. I love the smell of the leaves when they have fallen. If you close your eyes as you sit and smell the aroma of the fallen leaves, you can almost hear them fall. Very soothing for the Spirit.
Thank you, RW. They were all taken when we lived farther north. Where we live now is more tropical, and most of the green-leaf trees and bushes don't lose their leaves, and on most of those that do the leaves just turn brown.
Fall colors Siskiyou county Northern California. Mount Shasta in the background.
Autumn at Burney Falls Northern California.
Beautiful colors, so vivid and powerful.
Fall colors, Ojibwe Red Lake reservation Minnesota.
WoW! Those are some really red leaves! They look like they are on fire. Awesome!
Keep 'em coming! We're off to a good start.
Kamchatka, Russia Far East.
Note the brown bear in the middle of the flowers.
Another beautiful shot. Makes me want to be there.