Why I like Nature Art and Nature in General

 

Why I Love  Art, Color, and Texture... and all of Nature

My Grand- parents had a wonderful lake house when I was very young. it was a perfect piece of land right on Lake Huron, in Michigan, in the Lexington area.  My family would spend summer and fall vacations there.  My best memories all seem to involve thinking about those days and those smells even though I was so very young.

...coloring on the screened front porch at the big round oak table, crayons grabbed from the  cigar box and we had piles of coloring books.

reading little golden books in the fancy parlor in the mauve colored wing chair by the book case secretary.  I remember "Little Black Sambo" and how he loved pan-cakes just like ME! and "The Little Red Hen" (Why wouldn't anyone help her?)

 and bed-time ,..listening to the English type chimes from the clock on the shelf  (just like the Westminster chimes)

The smells of fresh cut juicy peaches (Michigan peaches), that I loved to have sliced onto my Rice Krispies, with  creamy milk (no skim or one percent here)

sunny warm days of flip flops, bathing suits  suit ( Gram called them bathing suits) my sons hate when I use the term " bathing suits" for their swim suit ...I don't know why

The big  grapefruit sack of beach toys - metal bright colored pails and shovels, sand sifters and various toys and blow up  black tire inner-tubes

making shell necklaces with tread and needles and little tiny lake shells (they make a great sound when you shake them)

getting rinsed off with rain water from the big rain barrel by the back door (no sand in gram's house)

birch trees  right by the lake shore next to Gram's beach(a forest of them) they make the most wonderful sound when the breeze blows through the leaves

( so peaceful and wondrous)!

I have always appreciated Nature and all it gives, to all of us. I wish more people could  just enjoy nature and realize how wonderful Nature is. ( take better care of it all.) I know there would be peace on our planet if everyone on it would just see how miraculous the place is and appreciate each other more.

ask a poet for help

When in need always ask your friend and very smart person (Danny D Langone) for a poem or two. I am painting a couple pictures for The Loveland Historical Society art show ...the catch is the paintings,( or actually any type of art work) submitted has to be inspired from these old (1900's) photos of Loveland taken by Nancy Ford Cones (1869-1962) She lived in Loveland in 1905 and took lots of her famous photographs around here. anyway...Long story short (which I'm not good at) Along with the art work for each piece entered, a @75 word "statement" has to accompany each... expounding on the artists thoughts and inspirations and or what ever we want to say about it. I had the immediate thought to write some poetry along with a short description of the particular process I used. I want to speak in a poetic way about these landscapes. A Poet, I am not! as Yoda would say. The Historical Society art show is titled "Images of the Past - Visions of Today" Danny was so nice about sending a few of his wonderful poems after looking over my paintings (still unfinished, but mostly done) The hard part is choosing between a few choices he gave me. He is so nice and so talented. So now I feel much better and I can finally finish the paintings (I go constantly back and forth between working on them) keeping the same paint colors on both and the same style. I want to keep them together as a set. Next big decision is framing.