Sentinel
(8” x 8”, oil on panel)

Scout
(8” x 8”, oil on panel)

These are nervous times for our little birds as we have a pair of Merlin hawks sitting watch over our backyard from our neighbour’s antenna. I like to think the solitary birds I see are keeping watch while their buddies are busy at the feeders.


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Chill
(8” x 8”, oil on panel)

 

Just the Two of Us
(10” x 8”, oil on panel)

Gossips
(8” x 10”, oil on panel)

Encouraged by the overwhelming response to my little bird pieces, here are three more.

My heartfelt thanks to the many of you who expressed interest in this project; it is clear that I am not the only fan of the animated chickadee!

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Chip
(8” x 8”, oil on panel)

Dee
(8” x 8”, oil on panel)

Happily Ever After
(8” x 10”, oil on panel)

My husband is an avid bird feeder. Over the years we have gone through countless pounds of sunflower seeds, peanuts, Niger seed and suet. So, naturally, I became an avid bird watcher. Painting wildlife is a far cry from painting still life; these chickadees simply don’t hold still. Accordingly, I will leave accuracy to Audubon, and paint my interpretation of these personable little birds.

These small works are a huge departure from my usual subject matter and technique; in fact I consider these pieces a kind of vacation. I hope you have as much fun viewing these as I am having painting them! And because they are so different from what I normally do, any comments will be very helpful.

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A.M. and P.M.
(12” x 12” each, oil on canvas)

I painted these two small pieces simultaneously to study the effects of working light to dark, and dark to light.

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Lite Brite
(12” x 12”, oil on canvas)
 
Lite Brite was a popular toy when I was a child. It was a basic light box that came with brightly colored pegs that you would push through a screen into black paper creating free-form designs. (There were of course pattern pages provided, but I much preferred the “blank canvas” route). Turning on the light bulb behind the paper illuminated one’s oeuvre.


The light, bright colors of this piece reminded me of the original toy and my early day of painting, albeit with pegs, against a black background and the resulting glowing colours.

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Linen Square
(12” x 12”, oil on canvas)

In this small piece, the organic texture of the linen plays just as important a role as the fruit.

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Lemon Stack
(24" x 12", oil on canvas)



I like this unorthodox arrangement of lemons for its surprise factor. Stacking the fruit in a glass vase allowed me to concentrate on the great colours of the lemons while giving just a suggestion of the vase. The addition of the berry added a bright splash of red that I happily carried up and down through the vertical composition.


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