Desert flower
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Skeleton of Coyote and Datura blossom. Photo based mixed medium image.
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South Australia’s floral emblem. Taken in Port Augusta / / The Sturt Desert Pea flower is quite large, being around 9cm in length.
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Portrait of Georgia O’Keeffe. Oil on Canvas / American Artist. Georgia O’Keeffe was raised in Wisconsin, educated in Chicago and Virginia, taught, painted, and lived on the east coast until her early sixties when she moved to Abiquiu, & Santa Fe, New Mexico. Close to one hundred when she died in 1986, living alone and painting in scenery that inspired her famous flowers in closeup with strong sexuality, voluptuous lilies and poppies, stark desert landscapes and animal skeletons. She worked in charcoal, water color, and finally oils, and worked large. I’m not sure her story is known well outside the states. She was photographed, courted, and married (1924) by famed 1920’s photographer Alfred Stieglitz who adored her, left his wife and family for her, and made her more famous than he was. She too, was madly in love with him. His black and white photographs of O’Keeffe filled Stieglitz’s famed “291” gallery in New York and caused a sensation with portraits focused on her beautiful bone structure and striking looks, and spectacular nudity. He took over 300 portraits of her from 1918 to 1937. Stieglitz may have been in love, but smart enough of a businessman to cause O’Keeffe’s work to skyrocket in price, averaging $100,000 a painting, monumental for a living artist and a woman in that time. What he did for her career lasted, interest waned some but revived and her work is priceless now. Every girl painter can use a Stieglitz, few get one. Stieglitz died in 1946 and she moved permanently to New Mexico three years later after cataloguing his work and papers. She was 59, began a new life in a landscape she claimed as her own. “God said I may have that mountain,” she’d written, “if I paint it enough.” So she did. / I painted this from one of Alfred Stieglitz’s famous photographs of Georgia O’Keeffe. / When you do portraits, you start to hear conversations from that time, get a sense of the thinking of the subject, smells and impressions wander through you or assault you inescapably. It’s a fascinating and somewhat dangerous occupation because when you put down the brush and turn away you wonder where the hell you’ve been and question your sanity. I’ve come to accept it as just what happens and there it is. One cannot help but see Stieglitz’s fascination with O’Keeffe’s profound physical symmetry. It bothered me. I thought it annoyed Georgia, too, that he was making more of it than in truth was there. Certainly a thoughtfully bright, introspective & solid woman. But he did not capture the O’Keeffe who stood in the desert in thunderstorms alone in the middle of the night to draw the electricity in the air into her being, which she was notorious for doing. Or the O’Keeffe who lived alone on her Ghost Ranch, and drove in her Model A Ford recklessly to plateaus and mountains of New Mexico to soak in the wilderness. DH Lawrence, Ansel Adams, the Lindberghs were visitors. / It’s not the last portrait I’ll do of her, but I wanted to see more in her than Stieglitz’s precision, no matter how beautiful that is to see. / I think he was incredibly kind and thoughtful about this woman’s life, and helped her reach a financial independence undreamt of for an artist of her time and sex. Stieglitz said of the first drawings of Georgia O’Keeffe that he saw: “Finally, a woman on paper!” He admired her, and he loved her. I can’t blame him for thinking her perfect. I’m just not so sure he saw the savage in Georgia. Other US photographers who did some earlier radical work in b/w, nature, and nudes you might want to visit: Ansel Adams. Brett, Edward, and Cole Weston. Edna St Vincent Millay wrote: “My candle burns at both ends; / It will not last the night; / But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— / It gives a lovely light!” / Which, published in 1918 became an anthem to end constraints on overwatched Victorian girls. A wild, free life… edged with death. / The Hawks Perch
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An exhibition piece from a collection of works that revolved around the themes of magic, nature and storytelling. The text translates as “I am the beautiful flower, I am the sun’s tear” which is from an ancient poem “The song of Amergin”. The work is loosely based upon this poem, although influences come from a wide variety of cultures. 50.5×40.5cm
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A delightful close up painting of an orange cactus bloom surround with the cactus pear leaves, painted in reference to the many beautiful cactus that bloom in Las Cruces New Mexico. 12×12 x 1.5 oil on gallery wrapped canvas
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Oil on canvas. Size 24” x 24” In the group “fabulous flowers” this painting won 6th place in the challenge “the most fabulous lily”.
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My favorite wild flower / Canon 40d / 100mm macro /
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Full View Please ..::Stock Photo Credit::.. / Texture / Sky / Desert / Flower / Butterfly If you like this, please check out: / / /
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The Sturt Desert Pea is a beautiful wild flower that grows in outback Australia. The Original painting has sold, but not without a story. I had some people come into my gallery saying that they were wanting a painting of Sturt Desert Peas. They said they couldn’t find one anywhere in Broken Hill. My husband kindly offered for me to paint them one. They said they were leaving town in two days and could I have it finished by then? My husband said ””””not a problem”””” – he is a great beleiver. I was not so convinced, but I said I would try. I worked all evening, all the next day and evening until I was satisfied and pleased with the painting. They were due to pick the painting up the next morning. They never came back. Lesson learned: When it comes to Art people are fickle. Always get a deposit and don’t trust their enthusiasm. Always try and do the right thing by others, but don’t expect others to do the right thing by you. Getting angry at others letting you down isn’t worth the energy. / Whoever buys this print, please remember that rich beauty can come out of trying circumstances. The Sturt Desert Pea is a living example – immense beauty growing in the harshest environment. Sue. / (936 views) / For Sue Hodge originals visit: www.suehodge.com.au / For more prints by Sue Hodge visit: http://ochresands.redbubble.com
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Made in Ultra Fractal 5. This is an updated version of an earlier fractal landscape that I’m not sure was uploaded here. I wasn’t satisfied with the moon and night sky of the previous version.
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children are our future, / they hold the key to our world’s growth … / and unity in this special occasion of festivities, / we must spread love, warmth and stand together, / no racism, no religion, no caste… no creed. we are all one. / let us be pure from our heart, like all children are. / We are all one! www.archann.net was great working with *TheLRD totally enjoyed and experimented. stock credits : http://www.stockvault.net
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Off the side of the road in New Mexico, these flowers bloom
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A Macro shot of the inside of a cactus flower. This was taken in Carlsbad, New Mexico at the Living Desert, / with a panasonic FZ50 FEATURES and CHALLENGE WINS and TOP 10 PLACES Intense Red / 1.This was Featured in >>>Extreme Close-Up Group! / 2. This was Featured in >>>Super Macro Photography Group! / 3. This was Featured in >>> Americas~Rural,Urban,Wild ,Free! / 4. This Placed in the Top 10 >>>Extreme Close-Up Group! / 5.This Placed in the Top 10 >>>Bubblers’ Weekly Challenge 09/21/09 Intense Red / Other views of this flower: / Lipstick Red /
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Taken near Moab Utah / Canon 100mm macro / orton /
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model: Grace, the the love of my life….. / FAESTOCK for the desert scene © copyright jokiargu creations 2009 music
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Desert Stars and Moon
by JaneSolomonA hummingbird flew / Caught before it found the nest / My love he reads me / Like musical wild flowers / Words engraved in a glass book He…
Tanka with prose. I just love writing this way. I hope you enjoy this love poem with prose. x
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“Desert Charm” is the first painting in a series of desert cactus flowers. The original watercolor is 30×22” and is painted on 140 lb Arches watercolor paper. When you think about the desert, what do you think about first? Sand, lots of sand, sand storms that sting the eyes, baron stretches of land, land with very little vegetation, and heat, unbearable heat are all things that came to mind when I thought about it. What a delightful surprise the cactus flowers were for me. Someone once told me that cactus flowers were evidence that God intended all to have beauty as he painted these beautiful flowers in n otherwise harsh environments. One spring in Arizona and I was hooked. I loved the southwest and knew this beautiful land would be a major influence in my painting.
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Digital Abstract painting created using several photographic layers, Photoshop, Corel Painter X and a Wacom tablet. I lost track of how many of my images I merged in this one. I believe it was at least 5. Thank you for viewing my art :) Black Box Frame & Bright White Matting / Autumn Fire / / Abstract Art Gallery / Fine Art – Mixed Media / ADD RENEE TO YOUR WATCHLIST
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This is an acrylic painting on canvas 61×61x4cms. It is of a unique and extraordinary flower found wild in the desert of South Australia. These were in a group found at sunset.
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