What a gift!

Thanks Jill.  The note says to use these in my art, maybe collage.  It’s almost Feb. but I felt like Christmas!

Progress on Blue Jay

I’m going to have to give up on gessoed paper.  It buckles too much, and I’m putting more energy into it.  I think  I’ll work on unstretched canvas.  I’ve done that, before, but not for a while.  Anyway, this is todays painting progress.

Blue Jay Today

Donna gave me a bunch of bird magazines.  The photos of the bluejays caught my eye.  But we seldom see bluejays.  From drawing to painting, this is not a bluejay.

Blue Jay Today

New Year, thank goodness!

I’m experimenting with Yupo paper, a polypropolene water media paper.  Mine are 9″x12″.  I used masking tape on the corner, to plywood.  I’ll have white corners when I’m finished.  May

Stormy Weather

be under a mat, or a feature ( when you’re hiding a mistake, call it a feature!)  This has been an incredibly wet season, and part of our yard has slid down the mountain.  What a big problem.  So maybe that’s why this piece looks stormy and foreboding.