Comments | grace_poppy: Beautiful artwork

grace_poppy

Beautiful artwork

Mar 25, 2007 17:53

I found this artist online, Giorgio Griffa, and his watercolors and collages are BEAUTIFUL. He has a website with an image gallery here, and also has images on flickr here. I left a comment on his website, and then on flickr, and we've been emailing back and forth a little bit - me writing in Italian and him writing in English (and both of us ( Read more... )

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grace_poppy March 25 2007, 23:18:02 UTC

Yes indeed! Apparently he's a great admirer of Andrew Wyeth, and I can see similarities.

tinuvielberen March 26 2007, 01:47:27 UTC

Those watercolors are very beautiful, thanks for posting them.

I especially like your icon, though - Stephen and the blue-footed booby - so cute!

grace_poppy March 31 2007, 22:46:04 UTC

Hee! Thanks! And yes, the watercolors are beautiful.

luthien_black March 26 2007, 07:15:44 UTC

Oooh, purty. I particularly like The Vascello - it reminds me of my dad (and yes, that is a leap of logic no-one else will understand. Still)

Are gannets really your favourite bird? Mine is fairy penguins/little penguins whatever you want to call them. They crack me up, they have so much attitude for such little birds. Although I'd love to see an albatross - I came very close, but they were charging NZ$30 (that's just over US$20) which, at the end of our holiday, was way too much. Especially since they couldn't guarantee we'd actually see any albatrosses. :(

grace_poppy March 31 2007, 22:45:46 UTC

Aww! I saw an albatross once, off the coast of Scotland! It's probably the only albatross in the northern hemisphere, they say!!! They call him Albert, and he appears occasionally in flocks of fulmars (which are related and look similar, but which look TINY when flying along with him.) I only saw him from a bit of a distance, flying with the fulmars.

Do you have those penguins in Oz? Do you have puffins too? Puffins are so CUTE.

luthien_black April 1 2007, 00:59:00 UTC

There's a colony about an hour south of where I live. Then, if you go across to Kangaroo Island there's heaps of them. Last time I was there we did a twilight tour to see them when they were coming in from their day in the sea - they are incredibly noisy! Sadly, we don't have puffins - I think they're only found around North America. But we do have kookaburras and emus and rosellas and so forth :)

grace_poppy April 1 2007, 03:12:06 UTC

Kangaroo Island, I've heard of that! How fun! It sounds so magical. How big are the penguins?

But puffins are only in the north? They're in Europe and Iceland and Greenland too, not just North America, but I would have thought they were in the southern hemisphere too, or at least different varieties of them.

In Scotland, on the Shetland island of Mousa where there's an iron age broch (tower) - in fact, the best preserved broch in the world - a huge colony of stormy petrels lives in the cracks between the stones of the tower, and I went on a twilight tour to see them come home from their day at sea. It was so magical! And they made such sweet noises as they were greeting their mates! They kind of whir like a mechanical toy, or as someone once described it, like a fairy being sick!

Kookaburras! Emus! How exotic! But what are rosellas?

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