Recent Comments

Feeds
« the Papalagi
old manali’s blankets »

african plains

Posted on January 20, 2008 @ 4:56 pm by massimo | Filed under: africa, another green world, blog, travel, wordpress

amboseli kenya aynaku illustration travel

I come from a hilly region and I’m not used to open prairies and plains.
This is the reason why, I can’t forget Amboseli National Park’s breathtaking views, one of the most classic of Kenya: the gigantic Kilimanjaro mountain, with its 5,985 meters dominating the plains.
Noteworthy Kilimanjaro is not within the limits of Amboseli, in fact it is not even in Kenya. The reason? Upon the partition of East Africa into two spheres of influence, German and British, England had two mountains vs. none for Germany, so queen Victoria gave the Kilimanjaro as a birthday present to her nephew-grandson, kaiser Wilhelm II.
Looking at the map you will notice the absurdly straight line that divides Kenya and Tanzania: as a matter of fact, this border also divides the one people who had always lived in these plains.
Ethnic and political turmoil are presently upsetting Kenya… It’s easy to understand how such imposed artificial borders are part of Africa’s problems throughout.

Illustration Friday’s topic is: plain

This entry was posted on Sunday, January 20th, 2008 and is filed under africa, another green world, blog, travel, wordpress. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

11 people have left comments

Your colors are really terrific! Nicely done.

Digital Scott wrote on January 20, 2008 - 6:32 pm CET

La vasta pianura è uno spettacolo, la vettura (sembrerebbe una Rolls Royce?!) è un tocco di genialità.
Ciao :o)

faruffa wrote on January 20, 2008 - 8:10 pm CET

cool colors indeed! and nicely blended with your whole blog.. and its great that you always have interesting stories to tell.

velvet wrote on January 20, 2008 - 11:51 pm CET

Nice hands indeed! Take a photo and send my way if you like! A nice pose, maybe doing something interesting. I’m thinking about doing a series of hands with coffee cups…

Digital Scott wrote on January 21, 2008 - 10:38 pm CET

Urca sono proprio orba, è palesemente una R4!
Si sto usando il Gimp: non è male fà un sacco di cose, ma per alcune è un pò ostico, poco immediato.
Ciao a presto

faruffa wrote on January 21, 2008 - 11:35 pm CET

P.S.: il MAC è ottimo, stabile, potente e silenzioso ma quando lo compri ti suggerisco caldamente di comprati anche VMWare per Mac (della Fusion) per farci girare la virtual machine Windows, purtroppo infatti sono ancora tantissime le cose che non girano in ambiente MAC.

faruffa wrote on January 21, 2008 - 11:42 pm CET

Bel lavoro complimenti! ma cosa usi per disegnare Illustrator?

Tavianese wrote on January 22, 2008 - 10:57 am CET

Love the lines and colour you use in this one. Nice illo and very informative too!

South Ocean wrote on January 24, 2008 - 3:26 am CET

What an insightful and magnificent idea and picture. I love the way you made this look and the colors are exquisite! I have missed adventures with you!

valgalart wrote on January 24, 2008 - 9:30 pm CET

Wow, I dig that tree!!

Willie wrote on January 26, 2008 - 4:29 pm CET

Wow, that’s really a great illustration. Love the tree, man.

Daniel Ted Feliciano wrote on February 1, 2008 - 1:03 pm CET

feel free to leave a comment

Comment Guidelines: Basic XHTML is allowed (a href, strong, em, code). All line breaks and paragraphs are automatically generated. Off-topic or inappropriate comments will be edited or deleted. Email addresses will never be published. Keep it PG-13 people!

XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

All fields marked with " * " are required.


Comments links could be nofollow free.