Marks Daily Journal

This entry is for Krissy's Scavenger Hunt with the topic being something to do with art.    Here is the print of Giant City State Park that is located in S. Illinois about 1/2 hours' drive from my home.    I have been re-working it for printing on 11 X 17 inch Kodak paper with my old Canon large format printer.   It was originally done in colored pencil and I have edited it with Paint Shop Pro to produce the colors as they are now.    The large rock on the bottom was created by looking at a smaller one in one of the photographs and using my imagination.    The result was an impressionistic/abstract drawing.    I will continue working with my representation of sandstone on the cliff until I make it more suitable in the next print.    This way the prints vary with each one different and unique.

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• #33 Comment from demandnlilchit 
  2/23/07 9:59 AM | Permalink

  I've always wished my hands could recreate what my eyes have seen...even as a child I was crayon challenged! lol I'm off to read more about you!
  
  Kimberleigh
  http://journals.aol.com/demandnlilchit/Ishavedmylegsforthis/
• #32 Comment from bgilmore725 
  1/20/07 2:56 PM | Permalink

  Mark, check out this artist child prodigy, Akiane. I wrote about her in my journal just after I emailed you this morning. Bea
  
  http://journals.aol.com/bgilmore725/Wanderer/entries/2007/01/20/child-prodigy-you-must-see/1583
• #31 Comment from elainey2465 
  1/17/07 4:49 PM | Permalink

  Mark thanks for your comment on my journal today - I love your artwork. Lainey xxxx
  http://journals.aol.co.uk/elainey2465/art-degree/
• #30 Comment from sazzylilsmartazz 
  12/23/06 5:35 PM | Permalink

  I love it Mark. Of course being a humanities girl I guess I would!
  Dianna
• #29 Comment from blpltt 
  12/23/06 9:31 AM | Permalink

  Mark, I do wish you and Salty a very Happy Christmas, and look forward to reading your blogs in 2007.  Keep warm !  Bunny.