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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Why I like rocks....

In progress now.....maybe half done

Sometimes I wonder myself why I like rocks so much to paint them.  Maybe it is this:

Their interesting shapes, sizes, colors, cracks, the way they are stacked, split, leaning or falling.  The moss or lichen or rust on them.  The way light hits them, the way bounced light from surrounding plants reflects plant colors on their shade sides, the way the blue sky is reflected on the sides that turn down from the sun-lit tops, and the way plants grow around them or under them.  I also am impressed with how they are around for so many eons - surviving wind, rain, ice, heat, earthquakes, landslides, glaciers, and volcanoes.