Even though I love love love winter, I think spring is on my mind with the rate and enthusiasm I making bird (art cards) paintings these days. I have also sold a few of these over on ebay which has also been quite an incentive. But don’t worry, you can also get prints of them over at my redbubble residence too.
Speaking of spring, this morning when I was taking trip after trip after trip to the curb to leave presents for the recycling and garbage people, I heard several different birds along with a woodpecker in the tree next door and got a little excited about the possibility of green grass and flowers coming within the next two months or so.
(and I’m sure I’m not alone either)
So along with a new studio podcast I am currently assembling, here are some more things that I have been working on lately. I now feel I have properly reacquainted myself with the watercolor medium over this past month or so, although every piece is a quiet little fight of knowing when to be bold and knowing when to be patient and knowing when to stop before “mud” begins to be made and a piece has been officially declared ruined. And when that happens, it gets torn into a million little pieces and thrown away while swearing a lot. And it does happen. More times than I want to admit. If anyone tells you that watercolor is a peaceful sport, they are handing you a big line of BS. It’s a tricky balancing act. I’m not saying that the more abstract acrylic pieces I do are “easier” per se…oh wait I think I am. Anyway, enjoy.
I have some more goodies from yesterday’s Capitola show. It was a blast as always so thank you to everyone who came out for it! Including my sister. It was super nice to see you there, Cindy.
Mary, the owner of Crossroads was just super to us and her place has great acoustics not to mention great coffee! Lots of the readers brought brand new written material of their own for the day which was REALLY cool to hear. Lots of great stuff. Goes without saying that I am so happy to be a part of all this.
The next reading’s date is still being worked out, as there was a conflict, but I will post it here as soon as it is confirmed.
Enjoy and hopefully see you at the next one in March.
I can’t think of a better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day than taking in some poetry and music. Come out and join us over at the Crossroads Coffeehouse in Cross Plains, WI for a great afternoon of just that. Hope to see you there!
Here are a few art cards I am planning on putting up for ebay auction soon. I also may or may not get an Etsy store. People have been asking me about that. Ebay has treated me pretty well in the past regarding these cards, but if you have other opinions, please feel free to leave them in the comments section. I would love to l hear what you have to say.
On the cards themselves, I’m trying to do different series. This of course is the bird series with their Latin scientific names appropriately attached. I also started experimenting with colored collage from my 60’s/70’s magazines regarding the leaves. I usually only stick to my 40’s/50’s mags for collaging but thought I would try this out. The jury is still out on this process, but I feel I need to give it more of a chance than just two cards before I can officially declare it a disaster which we are all about ready to.The committee that resides inside my head tends to shut things down before its time and it is really hard to sometimes convince them otherwise. But I’m going to try hard not to fall for their tricks in 2010.
Bell’s Vireo
Summer Tanager
Eastern Bluebird
Dark-eyed “Oregon” Junco
Oh wait, are you worried that my crazy esoteric acrylic collage paintings of sideshow freaks and mermaids have been abandoned for nature, rainbows and woodland creature creations? No. That is absolutely not the case. They are resting right now. And I promise that is not a fancy word for procrastination.
Watercolor beckons right now and I must answer the call.
Hello true-believers! Take a peek at last week’s Capitola performance over at The Driftless Market in Platteville, WI. As usual, it was a ton of fun. Hope to see you at the next one in Cross Plains February 14th.
