This is a painting I did a few months ago for my high school. Part of the tradition there was that any art student who took an art class all four years of high school was allowed to paint a mural on the school wall, kind of cool. I did this piece on the left. One thing I like to do is give plant-life human characteristics. If plants and such were able to interact with us more, I think people would think twice before cutting down forests or throwing their garbage carelessly on the ground. The human limbs replacing the tree limbs give a sense of feeling to the tree. It is able to feel when someone is cutting it or setting fire to it, and in theory it would bleed the same way a human arm would bleed. The flowers with eyes at the base of the tree can see what people are doing to their enivironment. I gave them eyes because a lot of emotions can be read from a persons eyes. This is meant to show that plants could possible have emotions and to somehow make people feel guitly for destroying them.
I personally think the concept of this painting is pretty cheesey; although, i did have fun making it. I had a very short time period to work on this so i did not get to put as much thought and detail into the painting. The cliff in the back is actually a painting that i have already done, the original of it was more close-up. I threw it in there just for filler space. That's pretty much it. Let me know what you think. thanx for checking out my BLOG!
