Recently, I discovered the eloquent and brilliant Aldo Leopold. (Hence the name of my blog!) Leopold has a writing style that absolutely captures the force and being that is nature. His phrases give life to what would otherwise be simply words on a page.
"When the Indian took his leave of the prairie, X moldered briefly underground, only to embark on a second trip through the bloodstream of the land." - Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
Through the bloodstream of the land....no, I'm not going to bore you with a literary analysis (I'm the nerd that does that even if it's not for an english class). The point is, in that simple line Leopold gives a pulse to the environment, makes it come alive from ink and paper to flesh and blood and breathe. THAT is what I want to do with my art. I don't want to just do pretty "paint-by-number" animal paintings.... I want my wildlife to move, to leap off of my canvas... I almost want it to breathe. So when you're sitting in your house on a rainy day, and can't be outdoors, you could look at my painting and see a life and a story, and be immersed in it. It has to jump of the canvas. So... if I paint a mountain lion, I want you to be terrified that it's going to attack and eat you!
SO today I bought syringes!!! Minus the needles, so no, I'm not shooting up....I'm going to paint with them. I have this image in my head of how it will turn out.... I think it's one of those things that could only be understood if you were able to walk around inside my brain. (Probably not a good idea, it's a MESS in there!)
So here are some fabulous examples of syringe art by Fransisco de Paola Quintanilla.
