cosmicdom: ty cosmic {blush} didnt think anyone noticed

ScarletRose:
true but remember in life,there is always light at the end of the tunnel...it's usually another train.

..I promise to be nice,polite & promote nice art.
today,I would like to introduce the work of some artists:

howard behrens
love this artist's warm pastels
http://www.villagegallery.com/big025/seaside_large.jpg
http://www.piersidegallery.com/artists/behrens/hb2004b-sienaarbor.jpg
http://usimages.easyart.com/i/prints/rw/lg/4/4/Howard-Behrens-Vista-Riviera-44539.jpg
http://www.paragonfineart.com/images/perez/tango.jpg
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ROB GONSALVES
seeing beyond the invisible
http://www.jeanstephengalleries.com/gonsalves-carvedinstone.jpg
http://www.discoverygalleries.com/images/gonsalves14.jpg
http://www.discoverygalleries.com/images/gonsalves16.jpg
http://www.jandiart.com/Rob_Gonsalves/images/Rob-Gonsalves_WhiteBlanket.jpg
http://www.carolschwartzgallery.com/gonsalves05.jpg
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cornelius krieghoff
http://virtualart.admin.tomsk.ru/k/kriegho1.jpg
http://www.levisauctions.com/current/photos/LARGE/065.jpg

ColonelCrockett: Work sometimes catches up with all of us I am sure..

ScarletRose: I've been missing the discussions on all the boards due to time constraints, sadly.

ColonelCrockett: whoo hoo.. sounds like me.. :)

ScarletRose: just sticking to the shadows reducing my number of games . . . you know . . . real important stuff, lol. ;)

ColonelCrockett: Hey Colonel.. long time no see.. where ya been hiding?

ScarletRose: Good decision! ;)

ScarletRose: Congrats Nobleheart on your moderatorship! Keep up the good work young man!

nobleheart: Due to your love of Art. I only felt it right to include you as a moderator of this board. You have brought so much to this topic and shared many links.. thank you!

want to express your creativity...ok try these:
http://artpad.art.com/artpad/painter/
http://www.goriya.com/java/spirograph/spirograph.shtml
http://www.elfmovie.com/swf/etchasketch/
scienceu
http://www.zefrank.com/byokal/kal2.html
http://www.scienceu.com/geometry/facts/solids/handson.html
http://www.wackerart.de/fractal.html
http://hem.passagen.se/mnomn/fractal.html
artsafari

virtual art:
http://www.lastplace.com/
http://icom.museum/vlmp/galleries.html
http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/
http://www.virtualdali.com/
http://www.megart.com/
http://www.tonycurtis.com/

http://www.sacada.com.au/Gallery/big/Sacada_SantaCrash.jpg
http://www.ivan.co.nz/WilsonLapp/Linda/santa-wait.jpg

http://www.jun-gifts.com/specialcollections/furoshikicloth/furoshikicloth.htm

ScarletRose: I'm glad you liked them
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always looking for something cool & art-related,I found this.
Beautiful Japanese wrapping cloth called furoshiki(an oversized square cloth, dyed in a variety of colors and patterns) are used in a creative artisitc way to wrap gifts,store things or carry things.The origin of the furoshiki goes back to the 14th century.

I did not know this art form existed:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=furoshiki&sa=N&tab=wi
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=furoshiki

nobleheart: oh Steve those are so pretty.. I have a picture (just a print) that I hang in my bedroom with Three young ladies sitting on a garden stairway.. the girls reminded me of my two daughters and my neice..

http://www.progressiveart.com/pino/pino-2004-thinking-of-you.jpg

http://www.naturesscene.com/artists/pino/pino-morning-breeze.jpg

http://www.artsinharmony.com/webpictures/chensplendidlight.jpg

http://www.artworldofsherway.com/Featured%20Artists/Colville/Collection/sevencrowsColville.jpg

ColonelCrockett: So Deep!! LOL

ScarletRose: you blinded me with . . . artistic license, LOL ;)

ColonelCrockett: I know what stimulates me.. hehe..

nobleheart: I think alot of people would say both. It is a case of "say what you think others will want to hear"
ScarletRose: tsk, tsk, scarlet. the system is just as visual as the nature and both nature and system can stimulate the mind.

ColonelCrockett: Depends.. are you visual.. or do you enjoy your brain being stimulated firstly..

just depends on what floats your boat! whoo hoo

ColonelCrockett: both

Is the beauty of a natural system in the nature or in the system?

ScarletRose: Have you tried the new flavors?

my fav pop:
http://www.beveragesdirect.com/images/productpix/large/2400463.jpg

heavenlyemma: Yes.. it is a citrus drink.. the colors look similar to the colors on the can.. haha

Fresca huh? LOL

Foxy Lady: that is lite and refreshing.. kind of makes me thirstie for Fresca! LOL

nobleheart: Check this out
http://www.evemero.com/oilpainting/stvitusdance.html

nobleheart: I think you are confusing Christianity and Catholicism. (but that's a debate for a religion board)

what really was st.vitus' dance in history?

ScarletRose: yes,but do you know why the earth is curved?
its because god didnt think it was wise for us to see to far down the road ahead.

harley: ty harley.I study native north american shamanism,but also lately have gotten in reasearch on pre-christian spirituality & its influence of early christians.
also the templar knights & related mysteries.

ColonelCrockett: hahaha.. yes.. we did..

Now.. off to shower.. meeting in one hour!

ScarletRose: the real question is did we spell it right. (spelling is a difficult art to master, LOL)

The blue color of the sky is caused by the scattering of sunlight off the molecules of the atmosphere. This scattering, called Rayleigh scattering, is more effective at short wavelengths (the blue end of the visible spectrum). Therefore the light scattered down to the earth at a large angle with respect to the direction of the sun's light is predominantly in the blue end of the spectrum.

Yes.. more correctly worded and in more detail.. although.. this is still talking about the frequency of the light rays.. :) I just didn't have the time to go into depth..

Blue Sky

ScarletRose: I believe the term is "Rayleigh Scattering". I took a college course in Geography so I should know the proper spelling, sadly when I passed the course I dumped most of the information into my mental recycle bin (you know what they say, "garbage in/garbage out", an inexact use of the term but I think it applies, LOL)

The Witches Dance in Aloway Kirk

All Saints Day

Halloween Searsport 47

Deiflcu

Two Jacks

harley: lol I know.. I also recently learned why the sky is blue.. to think all these years I wondered.. hmmm

the frequency of the light rays.. is what makes the sky blue..

ScarletRose: I didn't know either Scarlet until I looked it up. You learn something new every day!

harley: Thanks girlie girl.. how interesting that is.. and I got to learn something I hadn't learned before and that is the reasoning of the halo or circular sheild on statues..

harley: thank you, I thought it might have such an origin but I wasn't sure. Speaking of the sun it too appears several times in classical paintings, perhaps the famous Renaissance painters got some of their inspiration from pagan beliefs?

What Was the Origin of the Halo? Surprisingly, the halo is both pagan and un-Christian in origin. Many centuries before Christ, natives decorated their heads with a crown of feathers. "They did so to symbolize their relationship with the sun-god: their own 'halo' of feathers representing the circle of light that distinguished the shining divinity in the sky. Indeed, people came to believe that by adopting such a 'nimbus' men turned into a kind of sun themselves and into a divine being."


Later in history, the Roman emperors who began to think of themselves as divine beings wore a crown in public to imitate the sphere of light from the sun.


The need to preserve art objects also added to the development of the halo. "Statues were kept not in museums but in the open. Therefore they were subject to deterioration through various causes. To protect them from the droppings of birds, the rain and the snow, a circular plate--either of wood or brass--was fixed upon their heads!"

http://www.trivia-library.com/a/what-was-the-origin-of-the-halo.htm

nobleheart: the jesus image brings a question to mind. What is the origin of the halo? As far as I know there isn't any scriptural (Christian or otherwise) to support the image and I've heard that it was added to certain images as an emblem of holiness (to distinguish holy characters from other characters in art).

http://www.marysprayersrosaries.com/images/zurbaranstfranciskneeling.jpg

http://www.gnsm.org/images/jesus.jpg

ColonelCrockett: yes that is true.. our true selves become disciplined..

ScarletRose: as the artist molds the clay the clay molds the artist (personal growth through artistic expression).