This stunning sacred geometry was recognized and revered by ancient cultures. Researchers found traces of conifers dated back to 300 million years ago, while traces of pines can be dated back to 153 million years ago. Throughout the span of recorded human history, pinecones have been a symbol of human enlightenment, resurrection, eternal life and regeneration.Ĭonifers are some of the oldest forms of plant life on earth. They’re pretty ubiquitous and unassuming around here, but they possess deep meaning when we take the time to dig into their symbolism. We are, in essence, surrounded.Īnd where there are pine trees - you guessed it - there are pine cones. Every single window in my home gives way to a Douglas or a Norway Fir. Now, they are an enormous part of my everyday life. Before moving to Eastern Oregon, I never lived among conifers. New 30 Day Challenge, Found Natural Objects.I live in a place called Pine Valley in a house called Pine Cottage.Painting number 4, 30 Day Challenge! Rose Hip.Day 5, 30 Day Challenge, Douglas Fir cone.8 ,Week two of the 30 Day Challenge, Decaying. 9, 30 Day Challenge, Two Leaves from the Park Day 11 of the 30 Day Challenge, Blackberries.15 Half Way Through the 30 Day Challnege, Hone. 16, 30 Day Challenge, Green Scots Pine Cone 18, 30 Day Challenge, Dead Rose on vellum 21, 30 day Challenge, Whitebeam Berries, unfin. 25, 30 Day Challenge, Portugal Laurel Berries Day 26 of the 30 Day Challenge, Autumn Mahonia Leaf.For info on my classes: and website of my work View my complete profile I hope I can keep painting and writing in 2020 and beyond. Blogging motivates me and adds order to the slightly chaotic and solitary life of an artist. This blog was born in 2008, the rationale was simple: to connect with other botanical artists and it worked! I met many like-minded people all over the world. I exhibit internationally with work in permanent collections at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation and the Sydney Florilegium, I’m also a Fellow of the Linnean Society. As part of my journey, I worked in education for a while before returning to painting full time, an experience that made me realise I was already what I wanted to be. I hold a BSc in Biology, a Diploma in Botanical Art and studied some IT. I love to travel and illustrate species plants and teach Botanical art to the enthusiastic. About me: I've been a freelance artist/illustrator for most of my working life. Here you'll find information on drawing and painting with topics from art to science with a little history thrown in. Stone, Staffordshire, United Kingdom Welcome to my botanical art musings. Shadows Indanthrene plus Winsor Violet, Centre of bracts Raw Umber.and a little bit of that Manganese Blue Hue on the highlights. There after a Mix of Perylene Green and Transparent Yellow to gradually build up colour. Plus the view from the base, showing the two Fibonacci spiralsĬolour: First wash a mix of Indanthrene Blue and Transparent Yellow. Was a bit rushed to add the view from the uld be better! The cone shown from the base in the image below shows the two spirals from their point of origin, in this case with 5 clockwise spirals and 8 anticlockwise spirals, in accordance with the Fibonacci numbers. The Fibonacci number sequence is 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21 etc., up to 233, where each number is the sum of the previous two numbers, it was first described by Italian mathematician Leonardo Pisano Bigollo (1170 - 1250) This simple growth pattern results in the spiral patterns found here in the pine cone, also in pineapples, sunflower centres, many succulents and other plants. There's nothing magical about the number sequence, it's just the most efficient structure for growth. Here being in two sets of spirals in the arrangement of the bracts, where one set goes in a clockwise direction and the other anticlockwise. The pine cone, is an example of a Fibonacci sequence found in nature. It was a fairly small subject which was quite a relief at this point in the challenge. Found some green pine cones last week.love the colour! Would have liked to paint it on the branch but yet again time was against me.
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