Tag: Birds

Large Felt Birds

Two of a series of three birds constructed to serve as window displays at a local non-profit, fair trade shop.  Using an under-lament of recycled corrugated plastic to provide rigidity, they are primarily fashioned from craft felt.  I designed them to slide onto recycled bamboo ladders.  They each measure nearly 6 feet from beak tip…

Multicolor Birdies

This painting started as a material experiment but evovled into this colorful whimsy birdies scene. I like it!. It is a pity though that you can't see all the subtle sparkyness of the different elements, some real glittery versus a silkiness, versus twinkies H20's, sounds crazy? Even in real it works really well due to…

Out On A Limb: 19

Made with antique trade card (American Song Birds: Cardinal, Singer Sewing Machine Co., 1898) and map of Ohio; vintage Audubon birds coloring book page (circa 1930s); recycled greeting cards; ink, marker, watercolor, acrylic sealer and acrylic varnish. 5” x 5” on a cradled, hardwood panel.

Out On A limb: 19

Another collage combining black and white, and color images of birds. The "wood" in the collage came from a glass catalog (my Cincinnati studio is in a restored factory that also houses a glass school).  Made with antique and vintage illustrations (The Chatterbox,1899; John James Audubon calendar); recycled glass catalog; watercolor; chalk; ink; acrylic sealer; acrylic…

Birds flying by

Mixed Media try-out project: most of my work is pretty 'emotional', and I seem to be a bit stuck in drawing female faces. So i tried to force myself in experimenting a little bit. This piece I've showed on my Facebook page, and was very well conceived there, but I'm still not convinced cause I…

Birds flying by

Mixed Media try-out project: most of my work is pretty 'emotional', and I seem to be a bit stuck in drawing female faces. So i tried to force myself in experimenting a little bit. This piece I've showed on my Facebook page, and was very well conceived there, but I'm still not convinced cause I…