Amazon Parrot. Feather painting by Jamie Homeister

American self-taught artist Jamie Homeister was born in California but grew up in Canada. She started painting birds and wild animals on feathers just in 2010. Her art is inspired by Native American culture and her own Canadian heritage. Lots of her parrot-feather paintings depict the parrots from whom the feathers themselves fell, the artist says. Very often Jamie Homeister receives the feathers from the people who commission her to paint images of their birds. Naturalist at heart, she finds feather-work to be an incredibly humbling media. “The feathers splice, buckle, splinter and shed under the weight of paint.” Jamie Homeister has always been intrigued by the “lifestyles of all those who walked this Earth before us”, so feather painting has always made sense to Jamie Homeister.
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Lazer Light Reflection in Canada. Canadian photo illustrator Stuart Deacon

Canadian professional photographer Stuart Deacon is from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is a travel photographer, photo illustrator, doing a lot of landscape type work, HDR, and wildlife. He dabbles in artistic interpretive photography, as well as some photo illustrative stuff. Stuart has spent a great deal of time learning the craft and perfecting different styles. His prints are for sale in any printing medium from canvas, framed prints, or acrylics.
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Lake Baikal by Sergey Belov – Russian landscape painter. Oil on canvas

Lake Baikal is a real miracle of nature, inspiring poets, photographers and artists. These beautiful oil paintings belong to the brush of a talented Russian artist Sergey Belov, who was born and still lives near the lake. The Baikal – one of the oldest lakes in the world, the scientists determine its age of 25 million years. Usually lakes live 10-15 thousand years, then filled with sediments disappear from the face of the Earth. Baikal has no signs of aging. There is a version among geophysicists that the Baikal is a nascent ocean. Its shores annually expand for 2 cm. Among the lakes in the world Baikal is the deepest – its depth is up to 1,637 m. This is the largest repository of fresh water on the planet (23,000 cubic kilometers). The basin of Lake Baikal contains 20% of drinking water supplies. Transparency of the water reaches 40 meters, which is ten times more than in the other lakes.
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A mosaic dance of pipestone, Clear Quartz Crystal Balls, Aventurine, Lapis Lazuli and Beach Pebbles

Most ancient sites around the globe are built from natural stone, containing immortal, timeless quality in its sacred geometry. Canadian duo of artists Andreas Kunert and Naomi Zettl (husband and wife) work with such ancient, timeless and permanent medium as natural stone. The artists create very interesting and complex stone mosaic walls. Since her childhood Naomi was mystified by the stone circles and ancient artifacts that she saw meters from her home on the prairies of Saskatchewan. Her fascination with art & archaeology led her to the profession of an artist – she graduated from the University of Saskatchewan in 2000, with a major in sculpture and painting. Stones have always been in the life of Andreas since childhood, which he spent near The Rock of Ages Granite Quarry. Andreas is passionate to give stone an articulated form. Both artists – Naomi Zettl & Andreas Kunert are deeply passionate about creating something special from stone.
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Lupercus – gray wolf. Miniature Wildlife sculpture by Anya Stone

British mixed media artist Anya Stone has 15 years of experience in fine art and design. She makes life-like, detailed miniature sculptures of wildlife out of polymer clay in 1:12 scale and smaller scales. Wood, synthetic fibers or feathers are applied to sculpture to make them look realistic. The sculpture of a gray wolf (in the above picture) is made from polymer clay with different shades of hand blended merino wool applied to the body. The eyes are made of green glass. Height 6cm at the shoulder. Traditionally Lupercus was known as the God of winter and has the ability to transform into a wolf. It is said that his day falls between the 2nd and 15th of February, so he is associated with Valentines day, especially in the times of ancient Rome. Lupercus is sometimes identified with the Roman God Faunus and is a protector of flocks and shepherds who drives away the wolves and dangers of the night.
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Storks. Floral sculpture Parade Corso Fleur

Floral sculpture Parade Corso Fleur
It took landscape designers and artists half a million of dahlias to create a beautiful and colorful parade in a small town of Selestat, in Alsace in north-eastern France. That’s how many flower heads they used to build twelve sculptures, driven on special platforms through the streets of Selestat on August 9.

Actually, on this day there are two parades – evening and night, with live music and fireworks. Celebration continues the next day, Sunday. Platform with flower sculptures are arranged in the streets and squares for residents and visitors to look and take pictures. Throughout the city organized fairs and folk festivals, street performances, everything is just devoted to flowers.
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Leaf cutting art by Iranian artist Omid Asadi

Leaf cutting art by Omid Asadi. Iranian artist Omid Asadi (Deh mirahmadi) currently living in Manchester, Cheshire, creates art from natural fallen leaves. These little masterpieces are delicately made with a very sharp knife and needle in cutting and carving technique. His artworks were exhibited in London, Milan, Manchester (2013 and 2014). On his website, he writes: “For me, art is a way to see the world, and everything around me, from a different angle. I started thinking about why no one notices how beautiful the leaves are. I wanted to give them a second life and turn them into works of art”. This was his first step to becoming an artist and his leaf cutting art led to a very successful way.
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