Paintings With Glyphs 1
Paintings With Glyphs 1 Often in my paintings I incorporate glyphs, small line-work elements. Here are two paintings with glyphs based on actual American Indian petroglyphs spanning the continent. Girl of the Susquehanna is a painting that occasional hangs over the fireplace at our summer cottage near the top of the Chesapeake Bay. the Susquehanna enters the Chesapeake just a few miles away. The scattered glyphs are modeled on petroglyphs from two locations on the Susquehanna River, Bald Friar, in Harford County, MD, and Safe Harbor, in Lancaster County, PA. The Bald Friar petroglyphs were removed from the river when the Conowingo Dam was built in 1928 and are now in a museum. The Safe Harbor petroglyphs remain in place and can be accessed by boat. In my painting I have added color; the originals are cut into rock, not painted. Canyon Greeting is set across the country overlooking the Grand Canyon. The glyphs here are ...