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    Posted 8 years ago

    SpiritBear
    (813 items)

    I picked this up last summer because the water, which in real life is a well-done mix of green and blue acrylic, was quite beautiful. Neither the lighting nor camera helped capture how it really is, and my bad angle further wrecks it, but it's quite pretty.

    The exposed yellow dune in the background and weirdly angled branches detract, but the artist seemed to do quite well with the water, bark, snow, small plants, and sky.

    The scene is likely one of a West Michigan backwater cut-off from the rest of a channel by sedimentation.

    Circa 1960s, which is when acrylic paint became popular. This piece was picked up with 2 other paintings, both 1960s.

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    1. SEAN68 SEAN68, 8 years ago
      Beautiful paintings!!
    2. SpiritBear, 8 years ago
      Thank you. I hung this one next to my bed.

      I added a 3rd picture, of my lizard staring at it back before I hung it up.

      Later he decided to talk out on me, LOL:
      https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-1P3FwwSQvO8/VbVmnKQOoTI/AAAAAAAAPvw/2SjZr3wFWowFhStfHwxXs7vSz_EZBkKIw/w769-h577-no/ACLs%2B008.JPG
    3. martika martika, 8 years ago
      Just was thinking the same! The water is beautifully painted!!!
    4. AnnaB AnnaB, 8 years ago
      Very nice! Who is the artist? I can't read the name on the photo.
      Your lizard bud must be thinking "Brrr, too cold for my liking" =)
    5. SpiritBear, 8 years ago
      Martika, good eye.

      Anna, J. Zimmerman is what it says.

      My guess is that this and the other 2 (my favourite I've not yet posted) were bought at art fairs back in the '60s/'70s. Maybe even the regular street fairs. Those ended here, mostly, a few years ago after too many years of people getting drunk and ruining it for everyone.
      So they decided to make you drink beer at right across from an elementary school. I think that was quite dumb. LOL.
    6. NevadaBlades, 8 years ago
      My favorite type of painting. [;>)
    7. SpiritBear, 8 years ago
      Acrylic or from the fair?
    8. oktreedude, 8 years ago
      I like Anna's style.
      Ha the lizard...what did your buddy look like before he started smoking?
    9. SpiritBear, 8 years ago
      I'm afraid that I totally missed the joke.
    10. Trey Trey, 8 years ago
      Nature!!:)

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