Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Rations



Thanks again for all your support.

I've finished the goslings. They were such fun to paint but this painting is intended as more than just a painting depicting their cute fluffy characters...


‘They paved paradise and put up a parking lot…’

is the opening line of a Joni Mitchell song.

for these young Canada geese, along with many other animals, their habitat is being destroyed as a result.

This new family of goslings are on ‘Rations’. They have found a Dandelion growing through a crack in the parking lot but it is the only piece of vegetation in the sea of tarmac.

here are some close ups of the little goslings




Ona

4 comments:

  1. Beautiful painting with a very thought provoking message.

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  2. Your painting is very evocative!

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  3. Love this Ona...wonderful composition, extraordinary detail (would have drove me nuts painting all those feathers,;))just brilliant!

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  4. Thanks Vicki, JJ and Ree.

    Painting the feathers was actually not that bad. There were a lot of whites left so although I painted with my smallest brushes the goslings appeared quite quickly.

    Ona

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