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Marine Life Monday. "A Wooden Whale?" Or "What David Put Together With Two Old Boats"

Wooden Whaler by David Kemp.
A fisherman friend helped me join these two derelict cove-boats together to make the WOODEN WHALER. Clinker boats and cove fishing are from a way of live that’s fast disappearing in Cornwall.

Looking at David's art concurs up memories of the wooden sculputers that populated the Emeryville mud flats of my childhood. It's great to see whimsy alive and well in the world, and an artist who shares his work with the public.

Via Recyclart.

Seascapes By Caspar David Friedrich.

The Monk By The Sea
Location: Alte Nationalgalerie
Dimensions: 3' 7" x 5' 8" (1.10 m x 1.72 m)
Created: 1808–1810 | Media: Oil paint

Sea Shore in Moonlight (Küste bei Mondschein)
Location: Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Dimensions: 134 × 169 cm.
Created: 1835–36. | Media: Oil paint.

Moonrise Over the Sea (Mondaufgang am Meer)
Location: Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
Dimensions: 55 × 71 cm.
Created: 1822 | Media: Oil paint

The Stages of Life (Die Lebensstufen)
Location: Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig
Dimensions: 72.5 cm × 94 cm (28.5 in × 37 in)
Created: 1835 | Media: Oil Paint

Caspar David Friedrich was born in Greifswald, Swedish Pomerania, on the Baltic Sea. He was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. Friedrich is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins. His primary interest as an artist was the contemplation of nature, and his often symbolic and anti-classical work seeks to convey a subjective, emotional response to the natural world. Friedrich's paintings characteristically set a human presence in diminished perspective amid expansive landscapes, reducing the figures to a scale that, according to the art historian Christopher John Murray, directs "the viewer's gaze towards their metaphysical dimension."

Storm.

Sense of Place (storm no.1)
oil on canvas 2009
50x50 cms
© Lorna Wilson

Laundry.

Color and art are everywhere. We just need to open our eyes and see the world around us.

I changed the photo by cropping it and playing with filters. The original is from the post Telas al aire by the fantastic illustrator, Eva Vázquez Abraham.

Fish On Fridays. (Fish Under Glass)

Gyotaku Under Glass from rotorhead guy on Vimeo.

The commander shows us how to add some art to a surfboard.

Toughen Yourself By Braving The Wind And The Waves.

A Chinese propaganda poster from 1976.
Mao's promotion of swimming as a way for the Chinese people to improve their physical fitness.

Surfing Pic Of The Day.

Even Our Lady of Guadelupe loves to surf.

Via eye of the storm.

Red Uhu.

A freaking awesome Gyotaku print by the multitalented Rotorhead.

Edward Hopper.

His work says it all.
Via Geert.

Sailing The Blue Seas Of A Table.

I must be on an art kick or something.

Portuguese Fishing Boats In The Tagus.

Painter: Adolphe Marie Rousé

Cabines à la mer du Nord sur fond de transatlantique.

Suzanne Rousé - 1937

Fish On Fridays.

“Coloso.”

This is not a photograph. Can you believe it? I find it mind blowing that it's just an old fashioned oil painting. It was painted by Argentinian artist Diego Gravinese.
Via The Thought Experiment.

Weekday Wahine.

Waiting to surf.

Shark Attacks Truck.

I know, the headline doesn't really match the photo.

Technorati Tags: silly, art, rolling art, shark tryck

Waves.

Horse's Art.

Photo Of The Day. The House Of Umbrellas.

This wacky house is an art project by 'Syntosil' in Zurich, Switzerland.

Photo by Alessandro Della Bella /Epa.