I am halfway there! It is getting harder to find the kind ofimage i am looking for, but I am still having. enjoy hanging up the daily image in my studio

This experiment was exciting. The morning sunlight created both shadow and sun on the tree and warbler. These circumstances brought out the texture of the watercolor paper, while enhancing the bark and lichens.

This work is now completed!
I really enjoyed creating this with no thought at all to where it was going and enjoyed it mostly 🙂
The next work I will be doing is actually something I was invited by Koh-I-Noor and Grumbacher to take part in. I will be receiving a packet from them in next few days where I will have 1 week to create a page in the Cross Country Artwork Book featuring Artists across the Country who have received an invite to take part! What an honor!

After experimenting with my Cuttlebug folders in the Cuttlebug machine, I tried using other objects and found only the folders work in the Cuttlebug machine. So on to the rolling mill which can apply more pressure. Pieces 31 through 34 are the last pieces using Cuttlebug folders. Rolling mill: thirty-five used two brass rings. Thirty-six and thirty-seven used brass texture plates.Thirty-eight a piece of brass furnace vent we used behind a gas stove (next time use more pressure to make deeper impression) . Thirty-nine a piece of book cloth and forty was 1/4 inch hardware cloth. The book cloth is a one-time use because it gets flattened but the rest can be used over and over. Can’t believe it’s day 42 already!

The process is developing as each piece is created. My goal has been to practice every day and learn more about structure and color as it is applied to the neo-tropical warblers and their breeding environment. I worked to Asaf Avidan’s new album, DIFFERENT PULSES. The energy from his work helped me overcome the difficulty I experienced creating the Nuthatch-like pose of this Black and White Warbler on a lichen covered Sugar Maple tree. I used a photo I took at Presque Isle for the tree. The warbler was sketched after a photo by Sue from her blog, Backyard Biologist. With this piece, I learned that I like a more stylized look rather than a “realistic painting” (e.g., Stippling on bark indentations, pen/ink exclusively on the warbler). The Black and White Warbler is really this striking and distinct.

Week four and the finished product of the graphite U.P. silhouette with trees! Slow week with half a charcoal birch tree, a watercolor valentines day card, burnt graphite drawing and the paper mâché sculpture in the works.

Week two and three consisted of pen doodles, charcoal birch trees, and another graphite silhouette drawing but this time with the silhouette of the upper peninsula! An aluminum can and spray paint sculpture, and the start to the wire sculpture. The finished version of week ones watercolor and a new pen, colored pencil, and watercolor tree. And some photography as well.

Week one consisted of a graphite drawing of a human silhouette with trees inside, a handprint watercolor. A yarn sculpture with a wire and sock internal structure and rock base! And if course some unfinished watercolors.