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...and other adventures in art

The Daily Bird, Day 13

‘Where’s the bird?’, you ask? If you look closely, you’ll see the names of several birds in text. And there is actually a bird under there–a photo that I shot of a great blue heron in a natural history museum, stretched out flat on a...

the third dimension

A friend asked why I photograph the Daily Bird panels on an angle. Three reasons: The diamond-shaped photos look better on my blog page. Encaustic is difficult to photograph. These represent the pieces better than if I shoot them straight-on. I’ll leave that to...

The Daily Bird, Days 9 and 10

I didn’t post a Daily Bird yesterday due to camera troubles, but today you get two! An injured hummingbird, taken to the rescue facility. Of course I had to shoot photos first.