Nature has all the elements of design: line, shape, color, texture..."Nature contains the elements, in color and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the artist is born to pick and choose... as the musician gathers his notes, and forms his chords, until he brings forth from chaos, glorious harmony. --- James Abbot McNeill Whistler
Line: Look at nature's calligraphy... Red winged black bird egg
NATURE'S COLLAGE: The bird used bits of newspaper and old found papers...Rooted nature clings to nothing to be a new thing....
TEXTURE: These bird eggs were collected from one nest. The one spirit, silent, beats in every breath its name....
COLOR: Lingam rocks are found in a sacred river in India. They are believed to be filled with spiritual healing power. Look at the beautiful subdued, earth colors.
SHAPES, TEXTURE, LINE: Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to learn to understand art more and more. --- Vincent Van Gogh
SHAPES AND TEXTURE: Seed pods and remnants of plants... within my hands, what's lost is found....
THE READY MADE NEST: Some birds may use human-made materials to build their nests.The age-old story repeats itself..
Below is an etching by Yoshio Imamura. He incorporates nature into his work in beautiful, subtle ways. You can see more of his work here."The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it." --- Gustave Courbet
Some of the images in this blog post came from the book EGG & NEST by Rosamond Purcell.It is a beautiful picture book that captures the intricacy of birds' nests, and the aesthetic perfection of birds' eggs. You can find the book at Amazon.com.
"The Artist has been the element of nature, and the arbiter of nature; he who has sat on a cloud and viewed it from afar, but at the same time has identified himself as one of nature's parts. The true artist views nature from his own time."
---- David Smith, (1906-1965)
