NEW WARBLER PHOTOGRAPH

Here is the new Golden Cheek Warbler photograph. Looks different on my computer. I got cards made from this.

Reproduction of paint to ink on paper is a mystery.

REFRIGERATOR MAGNETS

 For E.A.S.T., some toys! Refrigerator Magnets. I cut up a slab of magnet that was intended for some kind of therapy. The pieces I got weren't square, no 90 degree angles so my magnets  are a variety of shapes and sizes. About 2" or 3", in that neighborhood. The paint kept scratching so I varnished them too. That was messy but Texas weather allows outdoor activities.

Doves in Flight

Mockingbird

Grackle Struts

Grackle Perched

White Wing Dove Flies

 

AIDS VIRUS SHEDS

AIDS VIRUS SHEDS PARTICLES ON T-CELL, 40“ x 29 ¾”, acrylic on canvas, shown at Art Lab (unfinished) then re-worked and completed July 1997; exh ACC CYP Fall 2015.

The TV was not in the original version. I exhibited it but the painting just wasn't right. Then my TV quit working and I got this brilliant idea of a broken TV in the painting to suggest a back story, human whatever. I found a golf club and broke the picture tube to see what it would look like. Very bad idea. Do Not ever smash a TV picture tube in a small apartment. Guess what. It's a vacuum. It exploded. I was cleaning up tiny glass shards for three days plus I had to wash clothes, towels, et al. Not to mention picking tiny glass shards out of my skin. I had my glasses on so I wasn't blinded. 

However the broken TV image definitely improved the painting

I pulled this painting out of storage last summer intending to paint over it. The stretcher bars are wonderful, hand-made (notice the odd size), Prime Douglas Fir. Lightweight and strong. But it looked pretty good. I asked Linda Haywood, Campus Manager at ACC Cypress Campus and she graciously allowed me to exhibit it this Fall Semester in their Hallway Gallery. I will bring it home in December. I will decide at that time whether or not to paint it out.

It has been lovely to have it out in the world. 

I do lust after those stretcher bars. Rolling it up is such a job. I don't mind stretching a new canvas. It's the rolling up part. I know. Lazy. Then I will just have another rolled up painting.

I'll think about it. 

NEW PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHS

FOUR DOVES

WREN with the painting around the sides

Oh, Vanity! All is vanity! I still get such a kick out of getting photographs, good ones done! Christopher Zalesky Studios does my photographs.I still reduce the pixels before I post them on the big enormous internet. But even after I reduce them like crazy they are so much richer than what I can do. Of course everyone has a different screen for viewing, too. 

CRICKET DAWN

BEE STINGS - LOVE 'EM

 I did this bee painting in 2010 or so. It's 20" by 16".

 I love bees because they help me deal with arthritis in my hands, among other things like pollination and honey. This painting was part of a bee homage but so prosaic, despite it's size. Suddenly it occurred to me that I was avoiding the subject which is bee stings! So a new version, repainted, spruced up and called APITHERAPY! 

 

APITHERAPY, 20" x 16", acrylic on canvas

BIRD MAGNETS

I have done tiny paintings before. Now I'm doing some on little magnets, suitable for refrigerators. These I am varnishing. I want to experiment with acrylic varnish. I have not varnished my paintings because I thought acrylic varnish cannot be removed for cleaning but it is such a hard surface. It might be preferable to the "soft" acrylic paint surface which can/does absorb dirt. These are about 2 inches by 3 inches.

White wing Dove

Mocking bird

Inca Dove

Golden Cheek Warbler

Grackle

White wing dove

BIRDS NOW AND THEN

Mom loved to go watch the grackles flock for the night. We would find a location then at sunset or so, drive there and watch the raucous thousands descending on some poor shopping center. The roar and the acrobatic ballet, seemingly perfectly choreographed. In her growing dementia, she took joy in spotting birds by the roadside or in our yard. When she moved to the nursing home, my brother Riley installed two feeders outside her window which I fed daily. Mom's gone but I still feed the birds at the nursing home. Residents and staff wave and greet me. The sky dancers magically riding the wind, landing and leaving on telepathic cues. 

GOLDEN CHEEK WARBLER, 22" x 28", acrylic on canvas

GRACKLE, SUNFLOWER, BEES 4" x 4", acrylic on canvas