Monday
Art talk: Back to painting the land…the serene blue-green marshscape of SC today! I ‘ve been painting “ECO ART” since my press release was distributed in 2006 and posted on my website: www.rlistudios.com. This 9 x 12 on board in oil I worked on this weekend from a photograph I took back in April ‘07. Again, certain colors move my soul, refreshing shades of blue-green. I tend to stick with what I know and the places I have been. Even though the price below is unframed, I will probably frame this one.
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Thanks for viewing!
Title: “Serene Blue-Green Marshscape”: Classical Mini-Series Oil
Part of an Ongoing Mini-Series:
“A Painting a Day” ritual at http://roselynnrlistudios.wordpress.com/
Image Size: 9″ x 12“
Medium: oil painting on canvas board
Price: $ 165. unframed on display in studio; framed $250.
“Eco Art of the Carolinas:” Marshscapes and coastal estuaries pull at my heart so these images fuel my process. More images and information can be found on my website: www.rlistudios.com.
Studio location: 1517 Camden Road in Historic South End design district of Charlotte, NC
ECO ART GIRL’s “Environmental Ecology Message:”
I hope to promote environmental conservation and awareness with my art and message. Wetlands are the number one threatened ecosystem in the world today. Losing our wetlands to the impending threat of global warming as well as over development will impact our ecosystem and ultimately our quality of life.
For more information about the dynamics of these critical natural resources, the marsh wetlands ecosystems, how these “swampy places” swim with life and house a productive nursery for key species in the marine food chain, the role they play as economic life blood to coastal communities and how they are threatened by man’s various combined actions, see the Marsh Wetlands Tab on my website (www.rlistudios.com).
Individual actions you can take to preserve these natural wildlife habitats include purchasing a federal duck stamp at your local post office, joining NRDC.org or Audubon.org and taking individual steps that stop global warming by addressing your lifestyle, looking at ”your personal ecological footprint” and making adjustments, as coastal marshes and swamps are vulnerable and within a few feet of sea level. Just a 2 foot rise could eliminate 43% of US wetlands.
Wetlands support a tremendous biodiversity of life beneficial for our life and the lives of our children. Environmental health and humanitarian health are one and the same and we should not lose sight of the planet and the natural resources we are leaving for our children.
Quote for daily painters: “I just know my world needs art and that I must creatively compose.” So glad to be able to paint again and to tune into some of my favorite songs on Majic 94.1- even if I am so limited presently in the time I can actually do that, it being usually late in the evening when I can arrange to post these images. I have been visiting family and riding bicycles around the green way circling the Catawba River in the NC mountains and sharing childhood memories with my two boys. Hearing again one of my all time favorite songs, “Let Your Love Flow” by the Bellamy Brothers and the lyrics “I know it binds me to all living things (as the song says below) and when I hear it that’s the reason”- the reason I paint.
Great song and words to live by…
…”Just let your love flow like a mountain stream
And let your love grow with the smallest of dreams
And let your love show
And you’ll know what I mean, it’s the season
Let your love fly like a bird on the wing
And let your love bind you to all living things
And let your love shine
And you’ll know what I mean, that’s the reason…”
Environmental health and humanitarian health are one and the same and we should not lose sight of the planet and the natural resources we are leaving for our children.
