Georges Seurat (1859-1891), the father of pointillism never visited Iowa.
But Iowa sure likes him a lot. So much so that when several large oak trees fell during a storm, artist Ted McElhiney carved them into the figures from Seurat’s most famous painting “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte”. And Mr. McElhiney didn’t keep all the fun for himself, the figures were then painted by local high school students. They now are a fixture on Credit Island In Davenport, Iowa.
That is pretty darn cool.
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All I ever did in high school was (badly) paint a gigantic picture of a carousel horse that for some reason my mother insists on hanging in her bathroom.
Well done, Mr. McElhiney and teenagers!
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©Virginia Spencer, thepurpledogpaintingblog, 2012
the purple dog painting blog 
Nice tribute. I love Seurat too. They made the bark look ceramic.
Isn’t that amazing, what a great teaching experience they must have had.
This is so cool, Virginia. Thanks for sharing it with us. This was always my favourite painting in pointillism.
I thought of you as soon as I saw this!
VERY cool!
Isn’t it! I would love to do this in my own yard.
Very cool! A painting brought alive, and what a creative way to use fallen trees.
It is isn’t it, those kids will remember this for the rest of their lives.
Crazy ridiculous!!! Love it!!! Margie
Thanks, I couldn’t figure out why they looked so odd until I read that they were trees!
What a wonderful discovery. Talk about recycling!
Thanks, I just love this! Plus they’re looking out onto the breeding grounds of egrets, cranes and herons so they have quite a view.
Nice. Pretty cool, all right. Your Like didn’t Like me, otherwise I would have Liked you. :o)
Thanks, I’ll smack it a round a bit. It’s just wrong for a Like button to be so rude!
That IS pretty darn cool and thanks for following my blog, Odds and End Thoughts at
http://oddsandendthoughts.wordpress.com/
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. 🙂
I dug around in my preferences and found something that allowed me to Like. It’s worked since. So, now you are officially Liked! 🙂
Thanks Cris! 😀