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Description
Raven's Child is washing the water,
All of her wing-feathers blackened with tar,
Prince William shoreline's an unwanted highway,
Of asphalt and anger, an elegant scar

from 'Raven's Child', by John Denver: [link]

This is my entry for 's Black and White Contest: [link]

The theme was (obviously) 'black and white'. These didn't need to be the only, or main, colours in the entries (you could go more into figurative ideas of 'black and white'), but they were the only ones that I chose to paint with.

I wanted to get the theme across not only in my choice of colours, but in contrasting the idea of the 'purity' (white) of nature with the 'environmental evil' (black) that humans are capable of inflicting on it.

In case you haven't figured it out yet, this is a painting of an oil spill. The bird is an endangered Marbled Murrelet, a seabird species that has suffered especially from oil spills, with an estimated nearly 9,000 individuals killed in the Exxon Valdez disaster alone.

For someone who loves using colour as much as I do, being limited to only black and white was an interesting experience. I think that the 'idea' of colour still manages to get across, though, and I'm very happy with the end result.

Acrylic on Bristol board, 9x7 inches

Ways to help with the Gulf Oil Spill

Description
Raven's Child is washing the water,
All of her wing-feathers blackened with tar,
Prince William shoreline's an unwanted highway,
Of asphalt and anger, an elegant scar

from 'Raven's Child', by John Denver: [link]

This is my entry for 's Black and White Contest: [link]

The theme was (obviously) 'black and white'. These didn't need to be the only, or main, colours in the entries (you could go more into figurative ideas of 'black and white'), but they were the only ones that I chose to paint with.

I wanted to get the theme across not only in my choice of colours, but in contrasting the idea of the 'purity' (white) of nature with the 'environmental evil' (black) that humans are capable of inflicting on it.

In case you haven't figured it out yet, this is a painting of an oil spill. The bird is an endangered Marbled Murrelet, a seabird species that has suffered especially from oil spills, with an estimated nearly 9,000 individuals killed in the Exxon Valdez disaster alone.

For someone who loves using colour as much as I do, being limited to only black and white was an interesting experience. I think that the 'idea' of colour still manages to get across, though, and I'm very happy with the end result.

Acrylic on Bristol board, 9x7 inches

Ways to help with the Gulf Oil Spill