http://abbiegroves.etsy.com Recent listings from abbiegroves. en-us Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:16:41 -0500 Etsy, Inc. 15 http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=33353268 <img src="http://ny-image0.etsy.com/il_155x125.98590368.jpg" /><br /> $550.00<br /> Original Pastel<br />26x17&quot;<br /><br />Story -<br />&quot;It seems like a place familiar but unknown at the same time. The hills roll along as you are driving and the waves of undulating grasses, sometimes green, but mostly yellow bend to the mad will of the wind. All of a sudden, a megalith appears on the horizon, then disappears, and reappears again.<br />This is still the place where the buffalo roam, but now there is more. There exists a giant white object that uses the mad wind’s will for man’s benefit. How strange that its blades can rotate, slice the sky, and turn that slice into, well, something.<br />This is not your grand-mother’s high-plains. The traditionally empty, wind-swept, lonely, infertile plains are filling up. Becoming useful in new ways.&quot;<br /><br />The large format for this painting enhances the experience of spaciousness and wonder. The layers of blue pigment build up to create an intensity and depth in the sky. Dry, ochre grasses in the foreground create stark contrast with the vast blue arena... http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=33353268 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:17:22 -0400 550.00 http://ny-image0.etsy.com/il_155x125.98590368.jpg new 1