Wilderness by Mary C. Nasser
Wilderness
My new painting this week is entitled Wilderness.

This painting layers a Hawaiian map, 2 Hawaiian petroglyph drawings, encaustic (wax), green sand and olivine (I purchased on the Big Island of Hawaii), acrylic and mica on a small stretched canvas.
Olivine
Olivine
The green sand and olivine is from Green Sand Beach – one of only two green sand beaches in the United States.  (The other is in Guam.)  The beach gets its distinctive coloring from olivine found in the enclosing cinder cone.

Green Sand Beach is located near South Point, the southernmost point on the Big Island of Hawaii and of the 50 United States.  Because I didn’t have a 4 Wheel Drive, it was a 2 ¼ mile hike one-way to the Green Sand Beach…but worth every step!

Happy Mid-Week!
Mary
 


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Kathryn Dyche Dechairo link
06/15/2011 6:21am

Love the use of green sand in this piece.

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FabricFascination
06/15/2011 6:26am

I would love to visit one of the green sand beaches, how cool.

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Christie Cottage link
06/15/2011 8:13am

Awesome new work!


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Mary link
06/15/2011 11:30am

I would love to visit that beach too! I've never heard of green sand beaches before. One day I will make it to Hawaii :)

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cynthia eloise link
06/15/2011 3:34pm

green sand, how unique. love your new piece.

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Bren link
06/15/2011 4:16pm

I love that olivine... got to get a piece or two of that for my rock collection. Nice artwork!
Thank you for visiting my blog and following... nice to meet you.=)

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Nelly link
06/18/2011 3:54pm

Hi Mary,
What an honor to have you as a follower to my blog. Your work with maps and geology is so unique and just awesome works of art.

Nelly

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sandy link
06/24/2011 11:10am

Your latest "wilderness" - is beautiful. Your art is so unique ...I love it.

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Theresa Plas link
10/17/2011 8:08am

Very Cool Mary!

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