what a lovely saturday :) the sun is out… it seems to be trying to be spring here…
sitting at the gallery, minding the store, and scribbling on a few music pages. (poor little deer… i know the song was probably about fox hunting, but growing up in wisconsin my mind first goes to deer when hunting is mentioned. i will hug this little fella so no one gets him….)
“diversion”
Jennifer Davis
Acrylic and graphite on board
12″ x 16″
$450.00
Work has been coming in for our upcoming show, “winsome playground“, which opens a week from today. I am really excited about this show! These are three of my favorite artists. Their styles are so very different, but they all are so delicately detailed and so full of imagination. Like story tales come to life.
Jennifer will be at the opening reception. I’m very excited to meet her! I first saw her work in person last summer when Beau and I were traveling across the country and we stopped in to see martha in Minneapolis. Jenn had a show at the SOO visual art center at the time. I’m really excited we got her for a 3 person show, as she sent so many amazing pieces! Check them out on the website…. and if you’re in town next weekend stop by and say hi to us and Jennifer! They are even more amazing in person. You really need to see the detailed artistry up close!
i originally painted this last fall, after an encounter with a pigeon here in town.*
But the original painting had these horrible awful white swishy things on it! *shudder* i won’t direct you to any images of it, they probably exist somewhere. (if you bump into one, my apologies.)
it’s rare that i actually paint over an entire canvas. I can think of a few times that i’ve done that. It was too horrible to look at, so i reused the canvas. I considered that fate for this one, but decided that it really wasn’t the pigeon’s fault :) So i just got rid of the swoopies. *shrug* it is was it is. it’s back up on etsy now, too.
* sept 6, 2008 – “i saw a pigeon fly into the path of a scootery thing on the road the other night. in a flurry of feathers he rolled to the curb… something happened to his left wing. it looked like he couldn’t fly… he hobbled under another car that was pulling away from the curb, but he made it out ok. poor bird without his protection of flight… he found a corner to hide in… he looked so scared… we looked up bird rescue places, but it was far away and we don’t have a car… i gave him some bits of a larabar… then we had to leave… i heard he was still there a few hours later, but he was gone the next morning… i hope he is ok… maybe his wing just needed a rest…. or he’ll have to learn to navigate the streets on foot, poor little rock dove….”
