Haematite / Hematite:
According to Collins English Dictionary:
“a red, grey, or black mineral, found as massive beds and in veins and igneous rocks. It is the chief source of iron. Composition: iron (ferric) oxide. Formula: Fe2O3. Crystal structure: hexagonal”
The name hematite is derived from the Greek word for blood αἷμα haima because hematite can be red, as in rouge, a powdered form of hematite. The color of hematite lends itself to use as a pigment. The English name of the stone is derived from Middle French: Hématite Pierre, which was imported from Latin: Lapis Hæmatites, which originated from Ancient Greek: αἱματίτης λίθος (haimatitēs lithos, “blood-red stone”).
…The red chalk writing of this mineral was one of the earliest in the history of humans.Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Hematite
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Technique: Digital Painting
Original painting by Marina Kanavaki © 2015
Haematite is available as a print / framed or on canvas at Imagekind:
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[museum quality printing and framing]
…one day after a Summer Solstice. Days will grow shorter.
Have a great week everyone! 🙂
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Marina Kanavaki 
Truly lovely. Somehow I missed these on my earlier visits. These would make a lovely design for Indian Saris. Great work.
Ah, thank you YS! I love the designs on Sarees but I fear this particular work might not be that err, cheerful! 😉 Have a great week, my friend! 🙂
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those are very lovely
Thank you very much, Debi and thank you for following! I just visited your page and I look forward to seeing more of your beautiful work! 🙂
Why am I– your biggest fan– always the last to show up here?? It’s because your work always sends me into a swoon, and it takes me weeks of intense mental preparation to ready myself for what the Ancients used to call an Ecstatic Experience. Yup, that’s why… : )
A: Red, Gray & Black
Q: What was the color of my first car, what’s the current color of my mustache, and what’s the former color of my mustache?
See, that’s another thing: your work is so colorfully vibrant, it tends to suck the color out of the viewer, namely me. No wonder my face is becoming so deathly pale…
My dear Marina–!
Haematite takes me back to my school days, when I studied rocks and minerals in Earth Science class. I’m sorry now that I usually had a comic book hidden in my textbook, because I don’t remember any mineral being as wildly colorful as your painting!! It is, in short, a feast for my rapt and bulging peepers, and another triumph for the world’s preeminent Painting Goddess!!
Several commenters have mentioned Greece’s economic crisis. I think of you whenever I hear news reports about it. I fear some sad lessons are being learned, and I’m sorry to think you are affected. Am I worried? No. Because you exist (well, mostly) on a higher plane, whose values are unchanging, and immune from human folly.
And now the world begins to spin. I feel a swoon coming on. I must recline and eat some grapes, while thinking deep and beautiful thoughts… : )
My dear Mark, I hope you are still enjoying grapes while creating those ingenious images!
I must admit, I also had a comic book hidden under my school books!
I am blushing at the thought that I have been a source of earth science information but even more so for having pleased an exacting person like you!
About the financial crisis, I am glad you are not worried, my friend. Us artists always have a safe haven! 😉
PS1: You do know of course that I am also your biggest fan!
PS2: I apologize for taking so long to respond. I’ve been away / still am actually, and my connection is very slow. Well, also because I’ve been busy catching up puffy clouds after reading your comment!
PS3: Last comes first!
Have you ever made your own pigments/oil paints. I think you’d enjoy/appreciate that. Very organic grinding, stirring, mixing. It all carries over into the art in more ways than just color.
You create lovely pieces
Thank you so much!
I have done a few paintings with pigments I made out of various ingredients and it was fun! Also I was forced to at times when I was unprepared and needed to sketch something, so I have used coffee – tea- leaves or whatever came handy! 😉
Some natural ingredients/plant based colors las longer than other. You have to experiment and maybe keep a journal record of what was used, how it went on/felt/ worked, how the color changed/lasted over time. Oil paints actually can take years to “cure” and get to a final state. – paintings change with age.
It is really fascinating. Artists have always been scientists (as well as historians and social commentators.)
Glad you’ve the fun of experimenting. Tea does make such a lovely stain/glaze.
Brilliant painting dear Marina. Yes I now understand why the red in it is having such a strong impact. My thoughts and wishes are with the people of your lovely country and hoping for an early solution.
Kindest regards.
Thank you so much, my dear friend for your thoughts and wishes. They are truly needed! 🙂
your painting seems to represent what you and the people of your country must be feeling. may the phoenix soar….
Here’s to that!
When I started painting Haematite [a title I gave after it was finished] I didn’t have this in mind, but -as it happens- our environment finds ways to creep in to our art – doesn’t it?!
Thank you, amiga! xx
oh yes it does. especially when there is an undercurrent in the background… we transfer it to a visual field! yours is powerful…
🙂 …thank you, my dear friend! 🙂
Really wonderful, dear Marina…. Congrats and all my best wishes. Aquileana 😀
Thank you, my dear Aquileana! Happy July!!! 🙂
So great to see your blog again my friend and what a powerful piece you’ve created. There is an intensity of design driven by life that winds and seeps through the harsh lines as they run through the piece, to the softer and lighter curvier lines that speak to the gentleness needed to calm the painting, to the very dynamic shapes found within. Total drama is the blood red of life – this is a fabulous composition, love the piece my friend. My heart bleeds for your beautiful Greece, for you and the people – these are truly the most difficult times. Keeping you in my thoughts ~
Ah, Mary, my dear friend, what an overwhelming ‘analysis’ of ‘Haematite’!
“Total drama is the blood red of life”… indeed. Thank you from my heart for such a beautiful comment and your thoughts for our current situation over here. Remember though, it’s all about money. One way or another we’ll survive. It’s the lack of values which bothers me more and not just in my country. All the best, my kind friend and …WELCOME BACK!
I echo that Marina – we are witnessing an unraveling of sorts when society begins to demonstrate the lack of basic values. It’s a scary road to go down – worry that there is no pulling back. Best to you and take good care.
You too, my dear friend!!!! 🙂
ps: our art is a good place to shelter our values! 😉
Perfect Marina – yes, just perfect!
🙂 xx
Marina, these are kind of symbolic pieces of Art. I love that colour!
Thank you so much, Alexander! They are…
Have a beautiful week ahead! 🙂
Hematite, the color of passion, joy, like pain.
Hematite is the color of our hearts and our feelings.
Hematite is the color of your last work that offers the strength of a story that leaves the brush, as always, the impression of a warm thought, through your beautiful and skilful hand.
I read in your painting, immediately, the power and the strength of feeling, as the cloud that hides its depth and consistency.
Best wishes to you, sweet Marina.
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I’ll leave you a sincere thought, with great affection for the hours that your beautiful land, the beloved Greece, is going through in these moments sadness.
When the people are suffering and lives a bitter meal of daily pain; when their dignity is trampled by the shameless usury of money; when in the eye of an elder, says the terror and resignation of an uncertain future, then and only then the people shooting, appropriating, his dignity, the future and dreams!
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I love you
Ninni
fm Italy
My dear sweet friend,
you always brighten up my pages with your words,
with your overwhelming kindness and beauty of heart.
Humbled and very very grateful.
Thank you, my dear Ninni and thank you for your thoughts for my country.
Indeed we are living in hard times…
Sending you my warmest wishes for the week ahead and love. 🙂
Very intense piece, especially with such a vibrant red!
That it was indeed and I’m very grateful for my tablet’s loyalty despite my rather fierce and primitive use! Thank you, Mark! Happy new week. 🙂
congrats, dear Marina, you have realized a good concept: to introduce that a nation, a language, has a very long creative history: ” αἱματίτης λίθος (haimatitēs lithos, “blood-red stone”).
…The red chalk writing of this mineral was one of the earliest in the history of humans…”
My dear friend, I can assure you it wasn’t intentional. The title came afterwards! Thank you for your insightful words. Have a great week ahead! 🙂
lovely colors and depth…a little different from your other work Marina…
you are very creative my friend…
warmly
sriram
Thank you, my dear Sriram, for your warm words! It’s my ‘other’ self, more of which you can see here: https://marinakanavaki.com/category/characters/ Have a beautiful week! 🙂
Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
HER RED ROCK IS ROCKING!
…as I said… YOU rock! 😉 Thank you, Jonathan!
I bow to yourf assessment…of my character. 😀
🙂 !
There’s a power, very much like iron, in your piece. Powerful, Marina!
Love the description, Elena! Thank you so much! Have a beautiful week ahead! 🙂
This is astonishing. I love the blood red colours and amazing movement in the picture. Wonderful as always Marina.
Apologies for my late response but we’re living some turbulent days over here [as you are probably already aware!]. Thank you, my dear friend. Have a great week ahead! 🙂
Yes I have been thinking of you through the troubles. Is it as bad there as it sounds on the BBC news here?
Probably not – media always likes to blow things out of proportion however I fear the ‘best’ is yet to come!
Oh dear. I hope you and your loved ones are doing ok. If there’s anything I can do please let me know x
Ah, Ken, thank you for your concern! We are ok. 🙂 Have a great Wednesday! 🙂
You too 🙂
These are wondrous designs, Marina. Such lovely rich colour. 🙂
Thank you, my dear Sylvia! Wishing you a wonderful week ahead! 🙂 xx
Very unique and such an energetic composition, Marina! I like it very much!
Thank you so much, Debra. I’m so glad you like this! Enjoy a lovely week ahead! 🙂
Like this one, Marina. A lot! RH
Ah, very happy to hear that RH! 🙂 Thank you!
Well named Marina.. and such a lot of detail in there.. Beautiful.. Wishing you a wonderful week my friend.. Hugs your way. Sue xox
A belated thank you, my dear Sue and my renewed wishes for this new week here! Hugs and love your way too! 🙂 xxx
Many thanks dear Marina.. I too have been absent a while from WP.. Love and warm wishes and HUGS your way xxx
🙂 xxxxxxxxxxx
Dear Marina, today I came to you with a question. Since you are a technical specialist and you know well this world… do you know how to make an youtube book-trailer?
I’m guessing you need a lot of capabilities 😦 but I would like to give it a try. I have seen lovely book-trailers but I don’t know where to start…
Maybe you can give me some suggestions (or at least which program to use…)
Love :-)c
My dear Claudine hi! I use iMovie for my clips / videos. If you want I can help you with it [would be my pleasure]
e-mail me for more info.
Hugs and love to you! 🙂 xxxx
Grey, Black, and Red…did such minerals down depths of the earth give rise to colours in flora and fauna? Probably yes, and by further extension in to cosmetic formulations to beautify feminine lips and cheeks, and vibrant colours on painters’ palettes to enliven canvasses…very well presented, marina…
Ah, Raj, thank you so much so such an insightful comment. So beautifully written!
Have a wonderful day and rest of the week! 🙂
Love the boldness and vibrancy in these, Marina! Sending happy hugs your way! 🙂 ♥
Happy hugs received with happy smiles!!! Thank you for those and for your lovely words, Lauren! Lots of hugs back + xxxxx 🙂
Love how frenetic this is – a real sense of life. Have a great Tuesday, Marina!
Oh, frenetic it was too! My poor tablet and pen where pushed to their limits!!!!!
Thank you, Richard. You too and rest of the week! 🙂
Yes I see blood, veins, cells, everything under the skin, amazing.
…under the skin indeed! Thank you so much, my dear Gilly and thank you for sharing it too! Have a beautiful day / evening and rest of the week! 🙂 xxxx
Hi Marina, carnival of colors and blissful celebration .Unique design ,l can see so many images in between the colors..Best wishes.Jalal
My dear Jalal, thank you for your kindness and your warm wishes! Sending my warmest wishes. Enjoy a beautiful evening and rest of the week! 🙂
You are very welcome ,its a pleasure to see your creativity.Wishing you the same.Jalal
Wonderful!
Thank you, David! HHD ahead! 😉
Right around the corner!
Fabulous, Marina! Very grounding. ~xoxo
Ah, yes, the effect of red, the root chakra!
Thank you, my dear friend!! 🙂 xxxxxxxxxxx
This one is very colorful and textural. Very beautiful, Marina.
Thank you, my dear Donna! So glad you see the textures! 🙂
Wonderfully bold …. red dominance works well with your design. What motivated you to create this?
Thank you, my dear Frank! This is the ‘other me’ if I can call it that and it is closer to my work from my solo exhibition “Characters” [you can see some here: https://marinakanavaki.com/category/characters/%5D. Other than that my inspiration was life and a tube of luscious alizarin red pigment [even if I painted it with …digital colors!] 🙂
Happy Tuesday, my friend.
Many thanks for the background … Love the self-description of “other me” … and who knows how many versions of you. After all, that’s part of creativity and musicality.
FYI: This part week I heard one of the premier handbell groups in the country. Oh the ease (it seemed) how they do runs. So fluid … as a pianist would on with 16th notes. Amazing … smooth as ice.
lol… who knows indeed!!!
I can just imagine what an amazing experience it must have been [listening to the premier handbell groups] 🙂
As a musician, you would have been impressed.
PS …. email sent.
This is amazing!!! I’m happy you are back from your blog rest!
You are one of my favorite gals, & one of the best artists!!! _Resa xo
A big big smile, my favoritest Resa!
Sending more hugs to you… xxxxxxx
Wow. These are so good. You’re good with this type of color too!
An old favorite of mine! Thanks you so much, Stephen!
Have a great week! 🙂
So creative 🙂
Ah, thank you, Alex! 🙂