Babbling Minnows and Silt is a painting by Laurel Adams which was uploaded on June 24th, 2019.
Babbling Minnows and Silt
This original colour pencil detail of minnows against the silty stream bed of pépère’s babbling brook was today’s inspiration for my childhood... more
by Laurel Adams
Title
Babbling Minnows and Silt
Artist
Laurel Adams
Medium
Painting - Color Pencil
Description
This original colour pencil detail of minnows against the silty stream bed of pépère’s babbling brook was today’s inspiration for my childhood memory collection which is weeks away from hanging in my kitchen nook. I was unable to find ANY silt reference photographs that look like the greenish-tannish-taupy-beige talcum silt that changed like the sand art of dessert banks hewn by the wind. HOW SAD! His brook flowed and re-waved the softer-than-soft sand, hour by hour. It was so clear, one could see EVERYthing and the dipping of a child’s toes would set about a sandstorm of blinding proportion to the guppies and minnows and snails and tiny frogs of that beautiful ecosystem. I must try to remember the wetlands of the eastern part of the brook on the other side of the huge pipe which widened and flowed more like a stream over rocks and had two miniature waterfalls. THAT is where the swamp maples, sassafras, weeping willow and river birch shaded the marshy lands where grew the skunk cabbage, jack-in-the-pulpits and different kinds of fern. It is also where mémère would stick bottles of homemade root beer or sasparilla to ferment! I must don my thinking cap to remember the details and try to do justice to the beauty of my Adventureland!
Yes, this is for you, Helen!
NOTE: Within the controversial distinction of CP “drawing” or “painting” lies artist definition. My definition: when the surface is ENTIRELY burnished, I classify as a Painting; when any exposed Paper Is part of the composition or background, I classify as a drawing. I render both.
HOMEPAGE FEATURES:
6/24/19- CREATED BY SOUTHERN ARTISTS GROUP, Thanks David
CONTEST PLACEMENTS:
11/14/21-Third Place “Babbling Minnows and Silt” -many thanks, Martin Wall, host, SUSTAINABLE LIVING Juried Contest, honored.
Uploaded
June 24th, 2019
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Comments (103)
Laurel Adams
You are so welcome, AnnaJo…I send prayerful energies everyday for your ever increasing healing and wellness…I also send a soft hug ..thru my powerlessness (my instinct is to make you chicken soup!) to you.
AnnaJo Vahle
Fabulous work of art, Laurel. Love the composition and the silty textures. The details are all so very nice. Thank you for your kind words to me, dear friend. f/l
Sarah Irland
Congratulations, Laurel, on your Win in the Sustainable Living Contest for this beautiful painting! Well deserved.
Hiroko Stumpf
Congratulations Laurel, on your 3rd place win in the "SUSTAINABLE LIVING" Juried Contest!
Laurel Adams
Many thanks to Martin Wall for hosting this SUSTAINABLE LIVING Juried Contest which made possible this Third Placement, honored.
Laurel Adams
Dear AnnaJo, I have the same problem...they slip thru my gazes...perhaps to be seen when I need a glimpse...thank you for SEEing my tiny childhood friends today..:-)
AnnaJo Vahle
How have I not notices this gem of a painting, Laurel? I love the textures and lighting. f/l
Mother Nature
F/L No matter what page I turn to, no matter what the subject, there is always an exquisite image awaiting me. What a superb gallery!
Laurel Adams
Thank you Mary Lee...it comes from crystalline memories of childhood...I could again SEE ...for a brief moment in time... thank you
Mary Lee Dereske
Beautiful artwork! So hard to capture the feeling of water, but you've done it brilliantly. Love it.
Laurel Adams
Michael, I am so happy to have taken you there...that was one of my favorite weekend past times, along with feeding the chipmunks from my hand. WONDERful days of exploration and Joy...all was a Great Adventure...and so, I return to Laurelland to Play and paint!
Michael Durst
Love this work with the delicate fish and their shadows on the sand. Thanks for taking me back to my childhood to my many hours spent at the "Little Creek" where I lived, watching the minnows and sand darters!
Laurel Adams
Thank you for sharing my memories and validating them..:-) look as I may, I don’t SEE the delicate sands anymore...all is a gravel-rock. I miss those times....
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