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@MichaelWhelan@mastodon.art · 4 days ago

FORTITUDE (1997)
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 9" x 12"

I got to thinking of Edgar Rice Burroughs' character John Carter of Mars....whenever it looked like the odds were hopeless and he had no options, his response was a defiant, “I still live!”

https://www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/fortitude/

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A muscular man stands on an island made of broken ammonite fossils. He wears no clothes except a long white scarf that loosely winds around him. In his hands, he holds an uprooted tree, long and thin, as he faces turbulent seas. In the distance, waves crash into another mound of ammonites, shooting spray upward as water envelops the tiny island.

Background detail from FORTITUDE featuring stormy waters as a wave crashes into a tiny island. The violent upward spray envelops ammonite fossils. BIrds soar around it just above a horizon disturbed by undulating seas.

Figure detail from FORTITUDE featuring a man standing on an island made of broken ammonite fossils. Naked with a long white scarf loosely winding around him, he holds an uprooted tree with two hands like a staff in front of him, bracing for the waves to come.

The Art of Michael Whelan

FORTITUDE

I got to thinking of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ character John Carter of Mars….whenever it looked like the odds were hopeless and he had no options, his response was a defiant, “I still live…

@MichaelWhelan@mastodon.art · 4 days ago

FORTITUDE (1997)
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 9" x 12"

I got to thinking of Edgar Rice Burroughs' character John Carter of Mars....whenever it looked like the odds were hopeless and he had no options, his response was a defiant, “I still live!”

https://www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/fortitude/

#personalvisions #fineart #imaginativerealism #virtues

3 media

A muscular man stands on an island made of broken ammonite fossils. He wears no clothes except a long white scarf that loosely winds around him. In his hands, he holds an uprooted tree, long and thin, as he faces turbulent seas. In the distance, waves crash into another mound of ammonites, shooting spray upward as water envelops the tiny island.

Background detail from FORTITUDE featuring stormy waters as a wave crashes into a tiny island. The violent upward spray envelops ammonite fossils. BIrds soar around it just above a horizon disturbed by undulating seas.

Figure detail from FORTITUDE featuring a man standing on an island made of broken ammonite fossils. Naked with a long white scarf loosely winding around him, he holds an uprooted tree with two hands like a staff in front of him, bracing for the waves to come.

The Art of Michael Whelan

FORTITUDE

I got to thinking of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ character John Carter of Mars….whenever it looked like the odds were hopeless and he had no options, his response was a defiant, “I still live…

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@MichaelWhelan@mastodon.art · 3 months ago

PATIENCE (1996)
Acrylic on Panel - 13” x 10 ½”

All the virtues represented in my series of the same name are ones that seem to me to be in short supply today. 1/2

#personalvisions #imaginativerealism #fineart #virtues

Out of the water slender outcrops of stone stand earthy bronze in contrast to blue skies barely marked with traces of cloud. Attached to the top one of the thicker shards of pitted, textured stone is an intact spiral of an ammonite fossil. Lazing across the upper curve of the ridged shell, a woman raises her head to catch golden rays of light and an ocean breeze that carries the long locks of her sunflower blonde hair. The bare curve of her hip suggests that she's not wearing anything.

@MichaelWhelan@mastodon.art · 3 months ago

PATIENCE (1996)
Acrylic on Panel - 13” x 10 ½”

All the virtues represented in my series of the same name are ones that seem to me to be in short supply today. 1/2

#personalvisions #imaginativerealism #fineart #virtues

Out of the water slender outcrops of stone stand earthy bronze in contrast to blue skies barely marked with traces of cloud. Attached to the top one of the thicker shards of pitted, textured stone is an intact spiral of an ammonite fossil. Lazing across the upper curve of the ridged shell, a woman raises her head to catch golden rays of light and an ocean breeze that carries the long locks of her sunflower blonde hair. The bare curve of her hip suggests that she's not wearing anything.

@MichaelWhelan@mastodon.art · 9 months ago

GENTLENESS (1997)
Acrylic on Canvas - 11" x 13"

Not a classical Virtue, but based on observing my young son with our aging family cat. It's how I hope we'll care for all the earth's creatures.

https://www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/gentleness/

#personalvisions #imaginativerealism #fineart #virtues

A pair of ammonite fossils rests against a natural levee of cracked stone in the immediate foreground left. There a boy cradles a gray tabby cat in his arms as he lays back against the larger ammonite with his eyes closed. His lowered leg rests on the curve of the second fossil. Notably in the autumnal setting, he wears only black shorts and a white t-shirt. Echoes of other ammonite fossils can be seen in stone above and behind. A trail of russet leaves over damp rock leads into the graying distance as thin trees stand skeletal against hazy skies.

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