http://www.artistdaily.com/blogs/artistdaily/archive/2010/09/09/paint-to-preserve-the-scenery-you-love.aspxAs an artist who has painted the natural world for over 20 years, Adam Straus has a complicated connection to his environment. In the 1990s, he painted Oil Slicks , a series of paintings that referenced the oil spills that happened at the time, and theenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Debug Build: 40407.4157)http://www.artistdaily.com/blogs/artistdaily/archive/2010/09/09/paint-to-preserve-the-scenery-you-love.aspx#129515Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:58:39 GMT2bfc0e10-a4d2-4b68-ab7f-f11d606ed6fe:129515shine00<p>Great post and information. Appreciable.</p> <p><a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.artmegamart.com/">http://www.artmegamart.com/</a></p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://www.artistdaily.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=129515" width="1" height="1">http://www.artistdaily.com/blogs/artistdaily/archive/2010/09/09/paint-to-preserve-the-scenery-you-love.aspx#68809Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:45:36 GMT2bfc0e10-a4d2-4b68-ab7f-f11d606ed6fe:68809Margo5<p>Courtney, thank you for sharing this article. There are so many nostalgic things that have been captured by painters and photographers over the ages that we would have no way of knowing about. Things that weren&#39;t necessarily &quot;great&quot; enough to make it into overcrowded history books, but are very important to the formation of America and the world. Art is many things and one of them is history in the making.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://www.artistdaily.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=68809" width="1" height="1">http://www.artistdaily.com/blogs/artistdaily/archive/2010/09/09/paint-to-preserve-the-scenery-you-love.aspx#68808Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:41:02 GMT2bfc0e10-a4d2-4b68-ab7f-f11d606ed6fe:68808Margo5<p>Courtney, thanks for the great article.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://www.artistdaily.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=68808" width="1" height="1">