I’m A Little Bird #3

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My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a water’d shoot

A Birthday by Christina Rossetti

This is my first time offering open-ended prints (a limited run of 25 prints each, size 11×17) and I am kicking it off by offering these prints at the affordable price of $17.00! This is a great opportunity to purchase one of these 50 assorted images, which won’t be listed here again at this sensational price.

These posters are printed on 80 lb Dull Cover paper with HP Indigo Inks on an Indigo 5000 press (a commercial printer, not a home printer!)

Printed to the border, signed on the back and dated. Cropped as shown. Copyright notice is to protect the digital image. It will NOT appear on the actual print. I ship flat inside a sturdy nonbending envelope using First Class USPS mail to assure it arrives to you in newborn condition. Shipping: $4.95.

Three In The Bush – Acrylics on Canvas print. Click on image for larger view. Purchase limited-run 11×17 print for $17.00 + shipping and handling. See more here.

Unraveling Yellow – Acrylics on Canvas print. Click on image for larger view. Purchase limited-run 11×17 print for $17.00 + shipping and handling. See more here.

Daffodil Opposition; Watercolor on Paper print. Click on image for larger view.Purchase limited-run 11×17 print for $17.00 + shipping and handling. See more here.

Growth Spurt, Pastel on Paper print. Click on image for larger view. Purchase limited-run 11×17 print for $17.00 + shipping and handling. See more here.

The Crucible of Changes, Pastel on Paper print. Click on image for larger view. Purchase limited-run 11×17 print for $17.00 + shipping and handling. See more here.

Shut Up, Pastel on Paper print. Click on image for larger view. Purchase limited-run 11×17 print for $17.00 + shipping and handling. See more here.

Today I Visited The Jungle; Acrylics and Collage on Canvas Print. Click on image for larger view. Purchase limited-run 11×17 print for $17.00 + shipping and handling. See more here.

Cherries Jubilee, Collage on Board Print. Click on image for larger view. Purchase limited-run 11×17 print for $17.00 + shipping and handling. See more here.

I Still Seek You, Collage and Acrylics on Canvas Print. Click on image for larger view. Purchase limited-run 11×17 print for $17.00 + shipping and handling. See more here.

Ascender’s collages present liquid and mystical, often downright unreal surrealism (I know how strange that sounds) with consistently incorporated urban insignia and allusions. It would probably be correct to say that the latter is organized in the manner of the former — and so the artist may be communicating her take on modern life, proponing both chaos and hierarchy. Ascender composes an original visual idiom when intermixing those. Because the art form included contemporary icons and symbols from its inception, composition and organization have taken on extra creative value — and the artist discovered her own language while maximally exploiting it. The result is a series of captivating works of art. read more of this critique by Elijah at Art and Critique

Detail of Unraveling Yellow, Acrylics on Canvas

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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it, as the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.

Plotinus

Here comes the rain, our winter. It has been pouring all day and will continue into the weekend. My blog has been down due to my modem. I spent the day waiting (and waiting) of the repairman and planning my next year; as much as one can plan the next year. I’ve been pulling together details with the printers on my upcoming limited edition prints and waiting (and waiting) for a shipment of acrylics to arrive from DickBlick. It is very hard not to continue working on this canvas as I wait for just the right ‘gold’ to arrive.

What are you waiting for? What do you fill your time with while you wait?

Three In The Bush; 20″ x 24″ x 1-1/4″; Acrylics on Canvas. Not yet priced.

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The bush was in a strange garden, a place
So old it seemed to exist outside of time.
In one spot, great stone steps leading nowhere.
In another, statues of horsemen posting giant stone horses
Along a high wall. And here, were triangular beds
Of flowers flush with red flowers. And there,
Circular beds flush with white. And in every bush
And bed flew small birds and the cries of small birds.

Black Swan by Brigit Pegeen Kelly

I have finished with this canvas. I struggled with a few spots but really enjoy the end result of that struggle. This is the second of an acrylics on canvas series which are influenced by antique wallpaper details.  My first being Unraveling Yellow and much relieved to read the comments there saying I was successful in my process of painting them to appear aged, yet new.  It is the Fresh Perspective line that has pulled me in this direction.  I aim to have them priced and on my site by early next week.

detail of Unraveling Yellow; Acrylics on Canvas

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In its unraveling loom
we find a flower to take,
with some late buds that might still bloom,
back to your room.

Heart’s Needle by W. D. Snodgrass

This is the finished piece; Unraveling Yellow – 20″ x 24″ acrylics on canvas. Not yet priced.

I attended last nights demo by local artist, Judy Gittelsohn. She is a Golden Artist Color Working Artist in Northern California who gave an advanced technical explanation of acrylics and their possibilities: types of pigments, paints, grounds and color mixing, various gels and mediums. We also learned how to make surfaces for watercolors, graphite, charcoal, colored pencil, oil and soft pastels. Free literature and free samples of paint and gels (woot!) Judy opened and teaches at Art for Well Beings in Palo Alto.