Angry Tundra: see first posting March 2008

Friday, November 28, 2008

Changing Tundra

oil on canvas 60 X 60 cm
Google Earth gives you visual access to the most remote and inaccessable places on earth. Places where nature has just run its course without ever being influenced by us. Here, somewhere in the Russian Tundra you can see how the river has changed course countless times, leaving all sorts of slowly dissapearing scars in the landscape. Really wild and another great startingpoint for a painter to just let his brush do the painting. The result may apear like a COBRA abstract, but isn't all that far removed from reality. Just this once: here's the Google Earth original image (colours slightly enhanced):

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