cleaning the studio...

...and other adventures in art

The Daily Bird, Day 7

This piece seems to be the strangest thus far in terms of composition. It feels off-kilter to me. And the image itself is quirky. It’s probably not that clear here (you have to come to the show!), but the underlying photo, shot in a natural history museum, is of...

(um, more birds)

I do more than birds! Really! I’ve been focusing on encaustic birds in these posts because I have to produce 50 pieces in 50 days, on the theme of ‘still birds’, for the Sanchez Art Center’s 50-50 Show. But I also do painting and sculpture....

The Daily Bird, Day 5

I’m not sure that this one is finished yet. Sometimes the wax and the panel get too hot to work and it’s best to just set it aside for a while. I’ll pick it up again in a few days.

The Daily Bird, Day 4

I’ve never done penguins before. They don’t even qualify as birds using my criterion of “ask a person what a bird does and they will answer, ‘fly'”. But, here they are. I like the abstract compositional qualities of this piece. These...