Stan Herd is a phenomenal American artist who uses land, specifically crops, for his canvas. Born in Kansas, Herd is said to have always had a passion for art as well as the environment. Combining those two were how he came to create these marvelous large scale pieces known as "Earthworks". According to a reference site he "plots his designs and then executes them by planting, mowing, and sometimes burning, or plowing the land."
Below is the link to the website where I collected my information, on it is a great 3 minute video on it that shows one of his pieces of art (a portrait of Ibn Battuta):
I came across this artist, Andres Amador, while searching for more artwork by Stan Herd. Amador's work is very similar to Herd's, as both collections of art are large scale, environmentally based, and temporary. As stated on the website I found this on, the beginning of this concept art is best described by the artist himself:
"This began innocently enough with a fascination with crop circle designs, especially the ones coming out in recent years. I was in Kauai, soaking up the sun on the beach at Kalulau Valley, when I used my walking stick to illustrate concepts about Sacred Geometry that I had been learning. Earlier, in San Francisco, I had been doing crop circle reconstructions on computer using Illustrator. Reconstructions are a person's reverse engineering of circle designs. As I was making a few circles, showing basic concepts of sacred geometry, the obviousness of the two artforms came together. Suddenly the possibilities hit me."
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