Picture blog

   

I chose this painting in the first place because it caught my eye. After about five minuets of looking through other paintings i always came back to this one. I chose it because i feel like this painting resembles my summer. Outdoors, grass and trees, blue sky and a care free no worry "Nothing could happen to me now or ever." kind of thinking. In the summer i was always around some sort of wood or forest. I grew up around and in the woods which also connects with me in this painting. In this painting i like that way that the woods seem dark in a peaceful lazy sort of way compared to the green grass. What i think is a good metaphor in the painting is the far off volcano smoking slightly, barely visible yet if you look for it, its there, like school in the summertime. You don't want to think about it, and you don't think about it but one day it will come, just like one day the volcano will erupt launching your word of green and peace into an hot, ashy poisonous cloud of death and stress. Happy thought.