Roosting

Roosting

11 x 14

Pastels on Wallis paper

I love art that's evocative.  Comments of visitors to my booth are so interesting.  "That looks like Africa."  "Are those vultures?"  "Love the dead tree."  Truth is, I just thought the roosting birds on a dead tree would look cool against the colorful sky.  It's not anywhere in particular, and they're generic bird shapes.  Visitors often ask where a scene that I've painted was, but I love hearing what the painting brings to mind for them.

 

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Prophetic?

Storm's A-comin'

24" x 36"

Acrylic on canvas



This painting was the most commented upon offering in my booth at War Eagle's spring show last weekend.  People walking by stopped and came into the booth, drawn by this painting.  It was amazing.  However, I sold a few others, but not this one.  It is a fairly large painting.  Anyway, about an hour before the end of the show, a thunderstorm moved in.  It was my first rain at a show.  Loading up in the rain was not fun!  Was this painting prophetic?

Which is it?

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Sunrise, Sunset

8 x 10

Pastel on Wallis paper

Sunrise?  Sunset?  I don't know.  I guess it depends on which way you're facing.  West = sunset;

East = sunrise.  A new day dawning or an old day ending.  As is so often the case, it depends on your point of view.  I suppose if I were asked which it is, I would have to respond, "Which do you prefer?"

Two weeks from now I should be packing up to return from War Eagle, Arkansas.  Last year the Arts and Crafts Fair was flooded out.  Hopefully, God willin' and the creek don't rise.....

Another bird...

Pretty Boy

7 x 5

Pastel on Wallis Paper

I have inventoried my frames with glass and mat material, and I'm determined to fill them with pastel until I run out of paper.  I'm kind of liking birds about now.  I work in fits and bursts of industriousness, followed by laziness.  This guy is a painted bunting, a species that travels through the state.  They are sooooooo pretty!  We had one last year that was in some sort of territorial dispute with his reflection in the patio door.  He would perch on a branch, giving the evil-eye to his rival, gather himself, and hurl himself at the glass.  I tried to scare him away, but he kept coming back for a couple of days.  Wonder why he couldn't figure it out....Bird-brain!  



Pastel Blue

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Post Sitter

7 x 5

Pastel on Wallis Paper

I've got a show coming up in a couple of weeks and plan to have 8 feet of pastels on one side of the booth and the other two sides acrylics, since I have some larger work in acrylic.  I have a bluebird in acrylic ( in an older post) and decided to do one in pastel as well.  Last fall I sold about the same number in each medium, so I need to restock.  I really enjoy both media.  I'm messier in pastel, but I don't have to wash brushes or worry about paint drying out.  Acrylics don't have to be behind glass, and I like the ease of transport.   Just can't choose one exclusively over the other.  Might cause me to stay mediocre in both.  Time will tell....

In an "Eagle Phase"....

Raptor Stare

8 X 10

Acrylic on canvas

I seem to have developed a fascination with bald eagles.  Something about their intensity....  They are still seen around the lake, actually fairly easy to spot because of their size and coloration.  I need to get back to some other things I have started, a spring stormy landscape and a sunset in pastels.  Hate to lose my "Queen of Unfinished Projects" designation....









Something different....

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In Memoriam

20 x 16

Acrylic on canvas

My son called last week to ask me if I would do a painting for a benefit fundraiser this weekend.  A young man was killed in an automobile accident and had no life insurance to cover final expenses.  His friends were organizing a Poker Run and Auction to raise funds.  I'm not a big motorcycle fan, but Jason was.  I was asked to paint a motorcycle.  Hmmmmmm....not my usual thing... I started sketching.  Not my thing at all!  But in searching images, I thought about cropping out a part of a 1938 Harley-Davidson Knucklehead.  I noticed lots of Bald Eagles, logos, and flames in motorcycle images soooooo........  This is what I came up with.  I hope it helps out some.  RIP Jason Hughes.