Snails in the arts.

[coyote]

Here's some snail and slug art, by painter James Atkinson. He is also a Professor of Zoology at Michigan State University, where he teaches courses in mollusk biology.

land mollusks: www.aestheticmollusc.com/land.html
aquatic mollusks: www.aestheticmollusc.com/aquatic.html
marine mollusks: www.aestheticmollusc.com/marine.html

[coyote]

Here's a place to post your poems and stories about snails, your drawings and paintings of snails, or pics of your snail sculptures.

Have you written a play or a song about snails? Post it here! ;D Do you make origami snails? Take a pic and post it here! ;D Anything creative involving snails, this is the place to post it.

[erminea]

Yay! I hope to see lots of snaily stuff here. Here's my small pomatia drawing.

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[Hannah-Bird]

Wow! That drawing is gorgeous! So true to life.

[crossless]

Upea piirrustus. Gorgeous drawing.

[coyote]

Well done!

[erminea]

Thanks! Here are two needle felted snails. I was going to make them into brooches by attaching the pin to the backside, then decided they look too childish to be worn by a 30 year old.

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[coyote]

Those are cute! I like the beads! ;D

[fabrizio]

Here's a clay work of mine, an imaginary shell...
Really well done and nice, the works of Erminea

[coyote]

Very nice, Fabrizio! I'd like to see the snail that would live in that shell! ;D

[ness]

Oh I really like that! Very unusual, but looks really good ;D

[fabrizio]

Thank you very much, Coyote and Ness
I'm afraid the actual snail wouldn't spend an easy life, with such a cumbersome shell to carry along!
...Yet there are real species, with possibly even more "crazy" shells, as Opisthostoma vermiculum (and related ones...) Nevertheless, they manage quite well to survive!

....I'll try to guess and depict the actual snail, next time.. In the meanwhile, I have other works of mine (paintings), involving snails, at least as "shells", if you like!

[cloudyski]

I have written a non-fictional book about snails and am actually looking for someone who is a snail lover to read it for book end quotes.

If anyone is interested, please do respond to this thread.
Please let me know your qualifications.
I will send you email information.
I can send you a PDF copy of my book to read and review.

Thanks,

[alexandra]

I was bored a few months ago and so drew this for the Bread Art Project.

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[coyote]

That's great! ;D

[dawncrotherssnail]

My name is Dawn Crothers and I paint snails for a living!!!
I live in Belfast and sell my work through The Whalley Gallery in Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland!
Please follow the link to view more of my work!
For a chance to enter into some exciting giveaways and competitions to win my snail paintings LIKE my page on Facebook.
Dawn Crothers Artist

Gallery Website (search under the artist tab!)
www.whalleygallery.com

Ps This is one of my snail paintings called "Joycelyn the Snail"

I am also looking for some gallery representation in other countries? If anyone knows of anyone who may be interested please let me know...I have sold over 200 snails in the last 2 years!

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[dawncrotherssnail]

Oh and my Snail Vase!!

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[ness]

Welcome to the forum. Your snails are very cute, I've just taken a look at your work on the link you gave. It's a clever idea using a spinning platform (I'm not sure of the official term) to create the shell

[aerliss]

Warhol Snails... that made me giggle.

[coyote]

More fabulous snail art! ;D

[fabrizio]

Geat works, Dawncrothersnails

The style reminds vaguely to me, the way of using colours of the "Transavanguardia" painting movement (mostly around the '70, if I'm not wrong).
How did you choose, to represent snails?
-And very nice the "snail work" of Alexandra, too! Was it a real breadloaf? Quite suggestive anyhow...

-I too do portray snails (or their shells) in painting, together with other living beings; I'll put later some!

[dawncrotherssnail]

My name is Dawn Crothers and I paint snails for a living!!!
I live in Belfast and sell my work through The Whalley Gallery in Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland!
Please follow the link to view more of my work!
For a chance to enter into some exciting giveaways and competitions to win my snail paintings LIKE my page on Facebook.
Dawn Crothers Artist

Gallery Website (search under the artist tab!)
www.whalleygallery.com

Ps This is one of my snail paintings called "Joycelyn the Snail"

I am also looking for some gallery representation in other countries? If anyone knows of anyone who may be interested please let me know...I have sold over 200 snails in the last 2 years!

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[dawncrotherssnail]

Here is another little Snail I painted last week...he is called George!!
I started painting snails a couple of years ago....I painted a very small canvas with a snail on it and one of my friends really loved it!
I then started to paint them bigger and more of them on canvas...and it has really taken off here in Northern Ireland!
I also have a Facebook page please feel free to add me!
Dawn Crothers Artist is what I'm under!!!
Look forward to hearing from anyone who is interested!!

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[coyote]

Very vibrant and lively!

[piestar]

Someone, in a moment of randomness, asked me to draw 2 snails wearing tophats on horseback fighting with spoons in the rain.

So I did, and here it is...



Done on MS paint, incase anyone was wondering.