New Owl Art

I love to work in series and owls are a favorite subject of mine that I return to often. In this latest series I am combining painting in acrylic with collage of vintage papers of which I have an over abundance! Late last year I did this one:

A barn owl in a night time moon lit flight, all the feathers in the wings were individually cut from vintage papers and applied with Gouldens Soft Gel. The painting was done with liquid acrylics and the stars white acrylic ink.

It took me a long time to organize my thought process with this one and I kept trying to set it up precisely beforehand but kept stumbling around with bits and bobs of cut paper floating everywhere.

Finally I settled on simply cutting a few and attaching, then moving to the next few until the wing shape was completed. And I had a wonderful time making it!

For this next one, my process was the same, but with the addition of some pressed flower petals that were gifted me. As soon as I saw them I knew that I wanted to collage with them.

The underside of a barn owl is very white but the top of the wing is a beautiful shade of brown and the papers and petals worked together beautifully.

The soft light of a crescent moon guides this owl in his night time hunt.

Instead of astrology symbols in the sky I used different moon glyphs that I researched.

This barn owl is indeed standing tall and proud and assured in the passing of time.

This painting was done to participate in the Arts Mid Hudson Show that opens tomorrow night called,

Artists Respond to Poetry

 

https://artsmidhudson.org/

Getting Show Ready and Banana Bread

Arts Mid-Hudson has a spring pop-up shop April into May and I have been so busy 

getting my inventory ready for this lovely venue.

I have two spin racks that will be filled with the 3x3 art bevels,

magnet sets and note cards.

My taping and soldering skills are getting better....I'm not ripping and re-taping quite as much!!

Thank you dear Etsy and Amazon customers for all your orders this month :)

 We absolutely love, love, love our days with this doctor/train engineer in training!!

If you are in the mood to do some vegan baking, hop on Instagram and

find @nora_cooks_vegan for the most wonderful recipes!!

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This was so great with my four o'clock cuppa....

On My Drawing Table

My local arts council has a members show every year in August and this year the

theme is: Flights of Fantasy

So, with my proclivity to things with wings, immediately an owl in flight came to mind. How to incorporate fantasy into my work took lots of thought and planning.

With all the vintage papers floating around in my studio I knew that I wanted to use that in my artwork and also acrylic painting. There was a cradled wood board that I had prepped earlier leaning up against the bookcase and that became my canvas.

After sketching out the barn owl I began to cut individual pieces of paper and arrange them along the wing span.

That quickly became cut and glue and put in place, I trusted that all would work out.

 

The first wing was amazing and so it continued....

Just loving this....

I was so busy painting that not many more photos got taken.

"Night Flight" can be viewed at:

Flights of Fantasy: Arts Mid-Hudson Members’ Show – AMH Gallery
August 3 – September 9
Opening Reception:
Friday, August 3, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.

(The opening was cancelled due to loss of power and will be rescheduled.)
Art Brunch: Sunday, September 9, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

artsmidhudson.org

Art Prints and Springtime

This snowy cold winter is loathe to leave us here in the northeast. We awake to snow or frost on many days that should be warming the soil.

I haven't given up on spring, it's on the way, it has just been slowly awakening.

This little man had a wonderful time searching for eggs this Easter. With the 

spring comes his birthday, three already!

Many train rides to NYC for not so great reasons....but the marsh views are beginning to

perk up.

Most days I have been in production mode, there are quite a few steps to producing these art blocks. It's important to have the wood cut cleanly and straight and my husband does a wonderful job of this with his big table saw.
Sanding the edges and then covering with vintage paper is accomplished with the help of a very sweet dear friend.
I print on a Epson Artisan printer on a lovely satiny finished paper, then mount it on the wood block.

This batch of 5x5 Art Prints on Wood are heading to 

Arts Mid-Hudson's Dutchess Handmade Pop-up Shop

Starting April 27th until May 19th.

They are located at 696 Dutchess Turnpike, Suite E

Poughkeepsie, NY 12603

www.artsmidhudson.org

Hope to see you there!

The Package

I put so much thought and effort into packaging my products.

I want everything to look professional, yet handmade.

I want it to look "gift-able" and special.

I want it to be reasonably priced so that I don't have to increase my costs.

I want it to be easy to put together so that it's not too time consuming to assemble.

I want it to protect the product from damage.

I want it to look unique.

Quite a list.

The latest product for me to assemble are my magnet sets. They have been very popular in the shops that I have them in and at fairs.  All feature my original art layered under glass and with a super strong rare earth magnet on the back.

 

 

 

Choosing to mount them on vintage dictionary pages helps to accent the colors of the art. And chip board backing to keep the whole thing rigid. 

 

 

 

Everything gets tucked into a clear bag.

Some may call this an ironing board, today it was a packaging center.

This group is being packaged for a pop-up Mother's Day Gift Shop at:

 

arts mid hudson