Digital Art: Eagle Spirit embraces Mother Earth

Digital Art from Smartphone Photography. A study for a large Oil painting on Canvas

This work is a mix of very Ancient Ojibwa Animal Spirit Art and modern Digital Painting Technologies. (Photo and Painting app on my iPod Touch)

I am also a mix of New World / Old World. (Metis) Italian, French, Irish and Ojibwe from Manitoulin (Spirit) Island in Canada.

Original photo below.... taken in the Gatineau Hills of Quebec.

Thanks @beeyou

Source: https://cwhitecomdes.wordpress.com/2013/10/17/the-birth-of-symbolic-language/

The ancient, abstract visual language of the Ojibwa tribes in Canada, used to convey spiritual communication and man’s connection to nature ....

More on Manitoulin Island:

Manitoulin Island /ˌmænɪˈtuːlɪn/ is a Canadian lake island in Lake Huron, in the province of Ontario. In addition to the historic Anishinaabe and European settlement of the island, archeological discoveries at Sheguiandah have demonstrated Paleo-Indian and Archaic cultures dating from 10,000 BC to 2000 BC.

The current name of the island is the English version, via French, of the historic Odawa name Manidoowaaling, which means "cave of the Spirit". It was named for an underwater cave where a powerful spirit was said to live. By the 19th century, the Odawa "l" was pronounced as "n". The same word with a newer pronunciation is used for the town Manitowaning (19th-century Odawa "Manidoowaaning"), which is located on Manitoulin Island near the underwater cave where legend has it that the spirit dwells. The modern Odawa name for Manitoulin Island is Mnidoo Mnis, meaning "Spirit Island".

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manitoulin_Island