I'm not sure if this is the right place for this thread, but I didn't see another category that looked close.
I was wondering fo there are any artists on this site? I paint wildlife- mostly whales and birds.
Recently, however, I found a "squibnocket" on a beach in Gloucester, MA and that got me thinking about the people who made it and visited that spot thousands of years ago. I did some reading and found out that - according to Samuel De Champlain who first visited the area in 1606 - some of the more permanent buildings the native people had built by the coast featured whale bones as rafters and/or support beams.
I imagined the people who made the squibnocket I found venturing down to the beach on an early Spring evening and finding the skeleton of a whale (in this case a blue whale). They had spent the Winter 20-30 miles inland to escape the harsh weather on the coast so they didn't see the whale with flesh on it when it first came ashore (maybe around now - mid-January). So by the time they got there it was just a skeleton. Anyway, this is how it turned out. I'm pretty pleased with it. It's not my best by a looooooong shot but it's my first ever attempt at painting this particular species of animal (Homo sapiens) so it's a learning curve. I deliberately left the faces kind of obscure so people could fill in the facial details however they like in their mind.
There must be some other artists out there. What have you got?!?!?
I was wondering fo there are any artists on this site? I paint wildlife- mostly whales and birds.
Recently, however, I found a "squibnocket" on a beach in Gloucester, MA and that got me thinking about the people who made it and visited that spot thousands of years ago. I did some reading and found out that - according to Samuel De Champlain who first visited the area in 1606 - some of the more permanent buildings the native people had built by the coast featured whale bones as rafters and/or support beams.
I imagined the people who made the squibnocket I found venturing down to the beach on an early Spring evening and finding the skeleton of a whale (in this case a blue whale). They had spent the Winter 20-30 miles inland to escape the harsh weather on the coast so they didn't see the whale with flesh on it when it first came ashore (maybe around now - mid-January). So by the time they got there it was just a skeleton. Anyway, this is how it turned out. I'm pretty pleased with it. It's not my best by a looooooong shot but it's my first ever attempt at painting this particular species of animal (Homo sapiens) so it's a learning curve. I deliberately left the faces kind of obscure so people could fill in the facial details however they like in their mind.
There must be some other artists out there. What have you got?!?!?
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