Painting atop repurposed maps
- Documentation of the painting (atop a repurposed map).
I’m selling work at a holiday market today at Kankakee’s beautiful downtown public library. The theme for the artists showing and selling work is “green art.” I created 15 new pieces atop a book of maps I salvaged from my school’s dumpster. The maps were printed by National Geographic in the early 1970′s. Caretta caretta is the scientific name for “loggerhead turtle.”
- Caretta caretta framed in walnut. Art size: 18 x 24. The outline that creates the title and the loggerhead turtle is the map that is underneath the solid background of the paint.
…and I also painted a blue whale using the same painting technique.
- Balaenoptera musculus is the scientific name for blue whale.
Wow these are some fancy paintings, I really like the turtle
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-lydia (your daughter)
January 27, 2012 at 11:28 pm
Why thank you Ms. Lydia. If you go to http://www.christophershoup.zenfolio.com and you look at “paintings” section and you click on Carreta Carreta you will notice something really cool!
January 28, 2012 at 8:19 am