Dinosaur Swimming - Aerial View
by Nikolyn McDonald
Title
Dinosaur Swimming - Aerial View
Artist
Nikolyn McDonald
Medium
Painting - Watercolor - Digital Photopainting
Description
This painting of a aerial view of a dinosaur swimming was created by our just six-year-old granddaughter and enhanced digitally by me. After she finished the creation, she showed it to me with pride, explaining that it was a dinosaur - you can see the head, torso, and front legs - and that he was swimming in the ocean. I admired it, so she left it with me on my desk.
Some time later she came back and picked it up. She looked at it and then gave it a quarter turn. And another. And another, exclaiming in frustration as she did so. "This isn't right! This isn't right!! This isn't right!!! This isn't right!!!! It's not right ANY way!!!!!"
I sensed a meltdown coming on, so I said, "You said it was a dinosaur swimming. Show me the dinosaur." She pointed right to it. Then I said, "I think we are looking down at him, right?" She nodded.
Then I explained, "Well, that's the problem . . . and it isn't really a problem at all. This is an aerial painting. Aerial pictures don't have any top or bottom. They don't have sides. They are right from any direction. Shall I show you some on the computers?"
So she climbed happily into my lap and we did an image search on aerial pictures. Her favorites were some that we found in a collection of photographs taken over Iceland.
Because of TJ's age, I prefer to give myself the "artist credit" for this one, but all I really did was photograph it and apply a painterly filter to blend the colors a bit more.
Featured: Blue, Turquoise
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August 28th, 2017
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