Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Animal Wednesday : Nesting


This is a painting I did a couple of years ago in my very first studio. It was a musty old place with too many spiders in the back of someone's home. But it was my space and I came to love it. One spring I watched a little sparrow carry pieces of straw and other things to help build his nest. I was doing a lot of trompe l'oeil in those days, so I thought how wonderful it would be to paint a bird making an offering to a painted nest because he thought it was real! This is how it turned out. That's also the brush and paint cloth I used that I added to the picture. One of my husband's co-workers bought it for his wife who collects bird paintings. I kind of miss this one because it was a little personal, but it sure makes me happy to share my art. Happy Animal Wednesday...and yay spring!!

12 comments:

  1. Hey thanks for your comments on my sheep painting this morning. I am not quite happy with it and now I know why. I forgot about the lavenders and blues. Thanks. I know everyone is saying they are liking the painting but it isnt working for me for probably that reason. Thanks mucho. I will give it a try. Love your blog. Will be visiting it again. Love this painting too as I love birds and feed tons of them daily. :)

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  2. Oh this is lovely, and what a great idea. I can understand why you'd want to keep it around
    HAW to you (Happy etc etc.)

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  3. What a beautiful peaceful painting. I just love it.

    I am looking forward to seeing your mandalas. Sounds like a great book. I may have to by it also :)

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  4. This is so beautiful and touching too...

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  5. this is a wonderful piece...love it..

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  6. This is incredible. I really, really, really, really like this piece. Wonderful work.

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  7. One more comment - Happy Spring to you too. Your trompe l'oeil work never ceases to amaze me!!

    Also I wanted to mention that I finally got around to adding a link to you, sorry it took sooo long!!

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  8. This is absolutely gorgeous, and I love the story behind it. I can understand how tough it must be to part with something personal, but I'm sure that gives it even more value to the fortunate person who has it now...

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  9. The concept, having the bird offer another piece of nesting material to the painting, is marvelous. :)

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  10. i like the fact that you've written the word 'nest' for everyone to see,just in case they don't know what it is.
    i have given you the arteypico award for your awesome blog. lotsa wfs to you.

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  11. Oh man, this is wonderful. I envy the woman who has it. I bet it was hard to part with, but thankfully you have it's image and now we all get to enjoy it.

    Speaking of enjoyment, love that Ricky Lee Jones song. I loves me some Ricky Lee. Thanks for that.

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  12. Love it. I thought of you when I posted on Poidogz today. Stop by if you like, you may be the only one who gets it.

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