Fertility
by Omaste Witkowski
Title
Fertility
Artist
Omaste Witkowski
Medium
Painting - Digital Painting
Description
As I am painting this image I was thinking that it looked like a womb to me. The fetus in the middle hanging out and waiting to be born. So I started painting around that idea. There are all sorts of random images of fertility painted into this picture. Conception, sperm, egg and even love :-)
See if you can find all of the symbols I painted and even some I didn't intend I am sure.
"Fertility is the natural human capability of producing offspring. As a measure, "fertility rate" is the number of children born per couple, person or population. Fertility differs from fecundity, which is defined as the potential for reproduction (influenced by gamete production, fertilisation and carrying a pregnancy to term). A lack of fecundity would be called sterility.
Human fertility depends on factors of nutrition, sexual behavior, culture, instinct, endocrinology, timing, economics, way of life, and emotions. " - Wikipedia
This painting started as a photograph of a piece of glass artwork created by Garth Mudge of Glassworks in Winthrop, Wa. It was taken with a Macro lens and is a very small section of the overall object. The colors are vivid and alive due to the way that I am illuminating the glass art as I am taking the picture. In a way I am photographing the light as it passes through the object.
In this particular photograph I have gone in by hand and painted over the original image. Adding my own textures and visions to the shapes and colors I started with.
I have been a professional photographer for many years but it is only recently that I have been photographing glass at any level. It is such an exciting experience to discover these images. I almost feel like an archeologist as I explore a small hidden word and reveal the treasures within.
Uploaded
February 22nd, 2013
Statistics
Viewed 1,695 Times - Last Visitor from New York, NY on 04/16/2024 at 3:43 AM
Embed
Share
Sales Sheet
