Video: Large-scale sand art by Peter Donnelly
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
How interesting is human nature! For some, the eye of a needle is enough to create a unique masterpiece in it, but for some, the whole beach is not enough for their arts! Yes, yes, the paintings of the New Zealand painter Peter Donnelly occupy entire beaches, but it must be admitted that the maestro has more than 600 such paintings.
Why beaches? And the fact is that Peter is an unusual artist. For creativity, he does not need paints, brushes, pencils or pens. All the maestro needs is good weather, a free beach and wet clean sand. Oh yeah, also a rake and some other sand raking tools. If he has everything he needs, the master gets to work.
The oddball Donnelly is well known both in New Zealand and abroad, with some fans coming from afar just to watch the "sand painter" create his large-scale drawings. And this, it must be admitted, is a very long and laborious process. The master needs to draw his work piece by piece, keeping in mind the big picture, which can then be viewed only from a great height.
This unusual hobby, Peter Donnelly (Peter Donnelly) has been engaged in more than ten years. Of course, it happened that his paintings became victims of weather phenomena, or they were washed away by the untimely tide. However, this does not sadden the artist at all. Rather, on the contrary: he believes that he donates his works not only to people, but also to nature, and this makes him even more pleasant. Well, an eccentric, he is an eccentric in New Zealand!
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