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New Work Wednesday: Wilderness

6/15/2011

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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
9 Comments
Kathryn Dyche Dechairo link
6/14/2011 11:21:06 pm

Love the use of green sand in this piece.

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FabricFascination
6/14/2011 11:26:51 pm

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

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Christie Cottage link
6/15/2011 01:13:23 am

Awesome new work!


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Mary link
6/15/2011 04:30:40 am

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
6/15/2011 08:34:48 am

green sand, how unique. love your new piece.

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Bren link
6/15/2011 09:16:22 am

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
6/18/2011 08:54:51 am

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
6/24/2011 04:10:36 am

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

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Theresa Plas link
10/17/2011 01:08:18 am

Very Cool Mary!

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