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After pelicans and egrets, I started to paint other birds. These owl paintings were opportunities to paint beautiful birds in breathtaking landscapes. I can't imagine a more perfect combination of subjects for an artist to paint than birds and landscapes. Everyone should try it! To see more of my work, read on, or go to http://www.fine-art.com/marte8
In 2006, I started to paint owls. I painted the Great Snowy White owl first, then the Great Grey. They were my Christmas cards for 2006. (24" x 48")
The eagle, like the wolf, is a favorite subject for artists who love to paint wildlife in the snow. I call this Glacier Eagle. It was my Christmas card for 2005.
The wolf family was painted in 2003. Lots of artists were painting wolves, an endangered species that has been reintroduced to the wild places where they were hunted nearly to extinction. They are to me a symbol of hope and redemption.
Since it's Christmas, I thought I would post my Christmas cards here from years past. This one is from 2004.
After the dotcom crash, I began to paint seascapes. They were my refuge from the insanity of the high tech world...
I had gone back to school in 1998 to study web design, because that's where all of the graphic design jobs were. By 1999 I was at Oracle doing HTML. But by 2001, the game appeared to be over. Every programmer on the planet was working on Y2K (remember?) and everyone else was building web pages. Then, everything fell off a cliff. Now what? I thought I might as well do some paintings...
See more pelicans below, and on www.fine-art.com/marte8
Seascapes may not be considered "art" by the powers that be in the art world, but I think it's like playing the classics for a musician - how can you keep a pianist from playing Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata? It may even take a lifetime to get it right, but someone who is obsessed will never give up. The devotion that it takes humbles the spirit and transforms the ego into submission to the beauty of the planet...
This seascape was just rocks and water until I added the pelicans... See more pelicans below, and on www.fine-art.com/marte8
