Art Blog/Eric Whollem: Feb 5, 2010

Friday, February 5, 2010

AUTUMN FLOWERS/ Pictographic Abstraction/ Mixed Media/ FIGURATIVE ABSTRACT PAINTING

Autumn Flowers

                                    1984
                                    by Eric Whollem
                                    oil stick, gouache and wax resist on paper
                                    Collection of the artist.
                                    6" x 9"
                                      Copyright by the artist.

A Fairy of the Autumn Season

This mixed media painting gives a rendition of fairy iconography
with a contemporary flavor. Wax resist was one of my favored
approaches to art in the 1980's. Wax is a very stable medium
that gives wonderfully translucent color.

THE ALCHEMY OF INNER EARTH/ Rock Art of the Modoc Plateau North of Mt. Shasta

The Alchemy of Inner Earth or The Seven Mountains

1984

by Eric Whollem

gouache and wax resist on paper

Collection of the artist.

9" x 6"

Copyright by the artist.

The Petroglyphs in the Desert North of Mt. Shasta

In the Petroglyph Section near Tule Lake just north of the Modoc
Lava Beds in California is the oldest rock art in the state. It has been
dated approximately at 10,000 years old.

The Mountains of Aztlan

1984

by Eric Whollem

gouache and wax medium on paper

Collection of the artist.

Copyright by the artist.

Aztlan, the Isle of Atlantis

The Aztecs relate that they originated on an island named
Aztlan. Atlantis buffs long ago have conjectured that this
island was Atlantis.

Many Altantean theorists believe that Altantis is not so
much a lost continent as an era of earth's history. Those
who follow Plato's account of Atlantis posit that Atlantis
proper disappeared about 10,000 years ago, about the
time that the Indian rock art that inspired this painting was
engraved.

This painting is another in a series of my Modoc Rock Art
petroglyph studies.

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Pictographs and petroglyphs video.

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ALSO OF INTEREST MAY BE
THESE FANTASY STAMP
VIDEOS PRESENTING FAUX
POSTAGE STAMPS
FROM ATLANTIS

ERIC WHOLLEM

Abstract art, mixed media painting, Atlantis, rock art, petroglyphs.

WORM WORLD/ A Surrealistic Icon of the Realm of the Insect Gods/ A PICTOGRAPHIC ABSTRACTION BASED ON MY STUDIES OF CALIFORNIA NATIVE AMERICAN ROCK ART

Worm World Click on image to enlarge

                                                  1983
                                                  by Eric Whollem
                                                  watercolor and wax resist on dark green paper
                                                Collection of the artist.
                                                  8.5" x 11"
                                                        Copyright by the artist.

Insect Spirit Guides in Native American Medicine

Dragonfly is a being that can travel interdimensionally. They can see what others
cannot see. They can travel from the material world into the astral plane.

Pink Suite

                                        1981
                                        by Eric Whollem
                                        earth paints, polyvinyl resin and gouache on paper
                                      Collection of Rusty Woods
                                                Copyright by the artist

The Music of Geometry

If shapes could have sound, and sound could have color
we would know that geometry had succeeded as never before
and had become a work of art.