Deeper in the Woods
Still more ferns
Ferns
If you can’t go for a walk in the woods, this has to be the next best thing. Week three on ferns with my Tuesday and Thursday art classes. Lots of fabulous ferns, all different, some with butterflies and bees. Acrylic ink on pages from a very dilapidated enclopaedia from the late 19th Century. Vol 11, from ROP to SPE. The only problem with the project was that some of the entries were so fascinating, one kept stopping to read them. Take, for example,
Walk in the Woods.
“Penny Savings Banks” of which there were 100s at one time……
I love Spring and I particularly like seeing the young ferns re – emerge after their winter hibernation. There is something so lovely about the immature fern fronds, tightly closed like a baby’s fist. Lots of journal pages.
Just the Beginning. journal page, watercolor
For the last year or so I have been working towards a show at the Round Hill Community Church gallery. (My Fifth) The opening was Sunday, May 6th. It was a lovely, cool spring day. The show will hang until noon on Wednesday, June 20th. A good long time. The gallery is open Monday through Friday, from 9 to 3 pm. To check on opening times, please call the Round Hill office at 203 869 1091. The show was hung by the amazingly talented Mirella. Very many thanks to all who came to the opening and made it such a happy event.
David suggested the title as I was looking for a way to combine my landscapes and my birds. I meant to do a “Bird’s eye view” painting but somehow managed to run out of time. Here is the Invitational image, “Georgia’s View” which shows the Pedernal Mountain in the distance. Georgia O’Keefe would climb onto the roof of her adobe house and paint and draw the mountain many, many times. It is the Mount Fuji of the South West.
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Georgia's View. Acrylic on Canvas, 30 x 30"
So nice to see that my newest creation has a friendly disposition. One never quite knows how a creaure will turn out when one is working on it.
Under His Wing
Finally, after several more layers, the finally finished owl is done. A layer or two of Japanese Waashi paper and some beautiful french tissue paper, once wrapped around some wine from a store in CA, and the owl is ready for his first flight.
Spreading His Wings
A quick sketch of shells as I start thinking and planning for this Summer.
Anticipating Summer.
Another paper mache owl practices his first landing in the garden. Here he is, nicely covered with the Financial Times and almost ready for a final layering of decorative Japanese text.
paper mache owl
After spending the last couple of weeks painting in acrylics, it was very nice to get back to watercolor and some very traditional spring flowers. Here are some gorgeous anemones, I love those purples so much.
Anemones, Watercolor, 11 x 17 "
