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Drawing shells was definitely a challenge for me. I used watercolor, pastel chalk, colored pencils and a white marker to color. Basically, I tried almost everything except crayon. I'm new to working in color & have no idea what I'm doing.
I wrote this poem last summer with sea glass in mind. It seemed appropriate to add it here:
An enigmatic reunion
Of bottle bits once brilliant
Now scathed and scorned by the elements
Recklessly tossed along dissonant waves
Finally shunned unceremoniously and deposited
Along pallid shores
Where their watery journey had once begun.
Another quickie shell sketch from my collection of shells. Ink & watercolor in Global Arts Handbook.
I came home from a walk to find A had been doing a lot of tidying and dusting, and rearranging a large collection of stones and shells on one of our windowsills. This was one of his mini-installations.
A 'tones and textures' shot.
I know it's perhaps not the most environmentally sound thing to do, but we do collect sea shells on our trips and travels. I think both of us are continually fascinated by the beauty (and ingenuity) of Nature's handiwork - apart from the excesses of Scottish rain maybe...
They originate from just about every part of the South/South West England coastline, quite a few Scottish beaches, including the Isle of Mull, plus some from an island off the Malaysia / Thailand border.
Shot while they're in their usual spot on a North facing front window sill, standing on a carved wooden (sandalwood maybe?) tray which was brought back from Brazil in the 1950's by my uncle, who was in the Merchant Navy. For it was he that sparked the imagination of a very young lad with stories about outings in Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Nassau etc.
My curiosity about the world hasn't diminished much since then!
Nikon D200 + Tamron 90mm Macro
Shell
Food Mart (1,200 square feet)
5537 Richmond Road, Williamsburg, VA
This station was built in 1990 and was formerly an Exxon.
Edward Weston photo Shells 1927. I tried to replicate a photo of a shell centered in the photo standing up.
Edward Weston was born March 24th. 1886 in Illinois and died January 1st. 1958. He was a major American photographer and was well known for his carefully composed, sharply focused images and natural forms, landscapes and nudes. Some of his most famous photos where taken of rocks and trees at Point Lobos, California. Near where he had lived for many year. Other than being a famous photographer he was also an Olympic archer at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics.
Taken at the Evolution Store, Science & Art in Soho, New York.
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Shell Gas Station, V-Power, Danbury, CT 8/2014 by Mike Mozart of TheToyChannel and JeepersMedia on YouTube
Some shells I bought today at a garage sale, filled with the clear candle gel from a few weeks ago.
The gel remains after the shot, with little forlorn pieces of shell sticking to it. the gel acts as its own perfect mold release, maybe using the shell as a form and shooting the gel replica?
Cheers.
Hygromiidae
Geomitrinae
Disculella
Disculella madeirensis taeniata
(Webb & Berthelot, 1833)
Portugal. Madeira Island.
Photo: Claude and Amandine EVANNO, 2015
Shell
Service Center (2,468 square feet)
9502 George Washington Memorial Highway, Gloucester, VA
This location was built and opened in 1995.
Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia /
tomb for
George Johnson Baldwin (18 August 1856-4 March 1927)
& Lucy Harvie Baldwin (25 March 1857-18 February 1923)
Aan de Carel van Bylandtlaan ligt het hoofdkantoor van Shell, met een opvallende toren. Het bestaat uit drie 'generaties'. Het oudste deel is uit 1915 en is gebouwd als hoofdkantoor voor de Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij (BPM). Op de herdenkingssteen in de gevel staat '15 juni 1915' en 'C C B Dunlop'. De gebroeders M.A. en J. van Nieukerken maakten een ontwerp in een naar de Gouden Eeuw verwijzende neorenaissancestijl (net als het gebouw van de Nederlandsche Handelmaatschappij op de Kneuterdijk). In die tijd stond het gebouw nog solitair en monumentaal in de weilanden. Het werd in 1928 sterk vergroot in dezelfde traditionalistische stijl, en in 1986 nog eens in een volkomen afwijkende, moderne stijl.