Latin-Caribbean Art

This group is to showcase latin/caribbean artist, / latin/caribbean themed, and any tropical themed artwork.

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Featured Work

Vibrant in colour .......... by jdmphotography

Flamingos….... Flamingos filter-feed on brine shrimp. Their oddly-shaped beaks are specially adapted to separate mud and silt from the food they eat, and are uniquely used upside-down. The filtering of food items is assisted by hairy structures called lamellae which line the mandibles, and the large rough-surfaced tongue. The flamingo’s characteristic pink colouring is caused by the Beta carotene in their diet. Flamingos frequently stand on one leg. The reason for this behavior is not fully known. One common theory is that tucking one leg beneath the body may conserve body heat, but this has not been proven. It is often suggested that this is done in part to keep the legs from getting wet, in addition to conserving energy. As well as standing in the water, flamingos may stamp their webbed feet in the mud to stir up food from the bottom.
Bull..... by jdmphotography

Bull….. Part of the Cuban experience… (-:
All alone now..... by jdmphotography

These adorable baby cuban chick found all alone with no mummy in site but I’m sure she was around somewhere ! Part of the Cuban experience… (-:
Chameleon macro (Cuba) by jdmphotography

Chameleon From Cuba A very difficult shot as this guy was very high up in the trees in the cuban mountains and hard to see being a chameleon blending in with the green of the tree this was the only one I saw all the time spent in the country… Part of the Cuban experience… (-:

Recent Work

Homage to Cezanne by Janis Zroback

/ “Homage to Cezanne” is part of the Still Life Series..I went against my inclination to show the bowl with the correct ellipse, but this is for Cezanne, who broke all the rules.. Acrylic and Mixed Media on 300lb Arches Paper.. / / Apples, pears, and plates / never move or talk back.. / slow, long, arduous work / balance form with form.. / color with harmonious color / portraits absent of emotion and personality… / nothing is more than a / conventional geometric starting point, / obsessed with unfulfilled / passions...excerpt..Cezanne /
Mangoes Mangoes Mangoes by Janis Zroback

/ “Mangoes Mangoes Mangoes” is part of the Series “At The Market” and my Gallery Collection. Watercolour on Arches…. / At my favourite food store Pusateri, fruit are piled in delicious mounds, and in great abundance…every Saturday morning I take home fabulous things to eat and to paint... / / Place (slender) mango slice exposing  ends / pare away  (exquisite) remaining  bits of skin / slice (perfumed)  flesh make  two rounded shapes / without peeling , slice (precious)  close to the pit / on both sides,  cutting (abundance)  cubes of mango / expose flesh  without biting  (sweetness) skin / bend fruit  backward pushing  up under / make (shining) bow,  mango still  attached to skin / mix papaya  pineapple (blossoms ) kiwi sugar lime / serve (divine) mango..SBPoet.
Summer Storm by kjgordon

There is a storm moving in, but it’s summer!!!!!!!!!
Humming Macro (Cuba) by jdmphotography

Humming Macro shot… Part of the Cuban experience… (-:
ah....feelin stuck again by helene ruiz

acrylic on canvas12-3-2007sometimes we feel as though we’ve been planted and cannot move from where we have been planted, but the passions are still growing, moving about constantly no matter how stuck in ” place or time: we may feel….passion lives on…at least for me it does…..everything i do is because of passion.
and what's left are the pieces of a woman by helene ruiz

acryl on canvas / 38×30
Orchid by Rebecca Foster

Watercolour
Writing

Tales from an Artist's Journal Part Five...Finding Your Own Personal Style…“To know what exists in order to develop what is uniquely your own”

Tales from an Artist’s Journal Part 5…Finding your own Personal Style
My Lunch Today by Janis Zroback

/ “My Lunch Today” is part of the Food Series….a Still Life of Fruit, Cheese and Nuts. Oil pastel and Watercolour on Arches Paper… It was my lunch yesterday actually [not the whole thing though] and this is one of the quickest paintings I have ever done, using again what was sitting on the table.. / / Instead of turning it into a more formal finished Still Life, I decided to leave it as a spontaneous study, partly because I was working on other paintings, and partly because I really like it the way it is...Janis /