After I read a last post of Jo Woolf,
(please check her blog here, jowoolf.wordpress.com, and her online magazine here, the-hazel-tree.com),
I wanted to take photos of my stones and pebbles.
Since I was just a kid I tried to find a special stone, a precious one, even a diamond.
After a while I realized that this won’t happen ever, so I decided to make one myself. I failed, obviously. But, as a result of my research on all country roads, valleys near home, roads contruction and other places I have a small collection of interesting pebbles.
Meanwhile, I started to paint using egg tempera method, where, for some purposes, I need to polish some surfaces with agate. I bought many agates.
So, you have under these lines three sections: 1. agate, 2. pebbles and 3. some fossils(well, this is the name I gave them, but I’m sure they are just some shells) I found in mud of gravel used for road construction.
1. Agate
2.Pebbles
3.Others
Do you have enough stones? Lovely pictures.
Today I don’t have enough time to search stones on a road or near our house as I had in my childhood. But, when I need one to my work, I buy.
Thank you.
I really like the seashells, and the purple/grey/white striped rock.
Thank you.
Glad you like some of my rocks.
These are beautiful, Cornel! I think the black ones are obsidian, and if they have white specks they are called snowflake obsidian. The others seem to be agate, as you said. I would say the orange-coloured pebbles are carnelian. The fossils look fascinating, and the limestone/sandstone (?) rocks that look like miniature cities. Thank you very much for the links, and I’m glad that I have helped to inspired you!
First, thank you, for inspiration and for comment.
After, I searched on internet and yes, I found some photos of obsidian and mine look like those. I didn’t knew it.
And the one which looks like a city is quite nice, I love it but I don’t know if it is limestone or sandstone.
A beautiful collection!
these are all lovely. some of the sandstone, blocky ones, look like “models” for hills&mountains in iconography, both with color and shape.