4×4, acrylic on canvas, animals, price $45
Available here
Small to large prints available here
It’s snowing outside my office window right now! Of course, it won’t stick, but I love surprises like this.
cHICKADEE bIRD nO 45
Black robin bird No 44
4×4, animals, acrylic on panel, price $40
Bird No 44
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Small to large prints available here
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“We made pretty string art just for you, Mom.”
This is what I saw when I walked into my studio the other day. In the quiet hours of the night, some naughty little bug jumped up on my work table, and rummaged through my stuff to find this string. In the process, paint and lots of other things landed on the floor. It must have been most fun because Maudie Maude, the little poser, seemed quite pleased with the results. This is why I can’t have nice things. 😉 😀
Limited edition bird paintings coming soon
4×4, acrylic on panel, animals
Available here
Small to large prints available here
I have new bird paintings that I’ll be listing soon. Why are these so special? Because they will be framed, and come ready to hang on your wall!! Yes!! There will be a limited edition of 30 of these, so you’ll want to grab them while you can. I’m going to try to find time to list some today in my shop. I’m taking a class all day until 5pm, and I have some paintings to get shipped out, so I don’t know how much I’ll get done. If not today, then tomorrow. I hope.
Wren Bird Painting No 42
4×4, acrylic on panel, animals
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Small to large prints available here
Wichita, KS
I’m going to Wichita
Far from this opera for evermore
I’m gonna work the straw
Make the sweat drip out of every pore
White Stripes
Blackbird Bird Painting No 41
Orange bird painting No 40
acrylic on panel, 4×4, animals
Available here
Prepping a new oil palette
I need the first few layers to be thin. Fat over lean, so the oil doesn’t crack.
Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder how the snowplough driver gets to work, or how the makers of dictionaries look up the spelling of words. ― Terry Pratchett
I’m teaming up with my husband on my next few paintings. He’s loaning me some of his photos to use as my reference, which is a pretty big deal to me. I stopped using reference photos over a year ago, and have been working straight from my imagination and memory ever since. While some artists might find it stressful to have to come up with a new idea for a painting without a photo to rely on, I prefer it. I find reference photos to be extremely restricting, and leaves no room for imagination or artistic expression. That, and I tend to fuss over little details until I’m ready to pull my hair out.
Thinking about the old way I used to paint breaks me out in hives. So why I am painting with reference photos again? Good question! My inspiration for this little project is coming from two different sources. 1. Having great reference photos to choose from because my husband is a nature photographer. 2. From a book I’m reading called The Elements of Landscape Oil Painting by Suzanne Brooker. I’ll be writing a book review sometime within the next week or two, so stay tuned for that.
Okay, now to get to work.
