I just love diving into a new painting. With acrylics or mixed-media, there’s just no way to go wrong. It’s bold and exciting. Me – not scared of a blank canvas! It’s the next stage I find challenging, and the one after that is terrifying. At stage 3 I typically think it looks worse than it did at stage 1 (maybe even worse than stage 0 (i.e. the blank canvas!)
But, oh, how I love starting. Osprey nest on 20″x30″ panel has begun.
The more I talk about nests, and share my works in progress for my upcoming show, the more artists I’m getting to know who are also enchanged with nests -the birds who make them.
Locally in Vancouver area
Canada
Mary Reardon – Halifax, NS
Elsewhere
Songmi Park http://artists.workhousearts.org/songmipark
Liza Myers http://lizamyers.com/ Robin’s Nest / Visionary Realism http://lizamyers.com/gallery/visionary-realism/
Sharon Beals Photographs of 50 Nests
Nests : fifty nests and the birds that built them – book by Sharon Beals
Artists who have done nests but are not totally obsessed by them:
Kata Meija
As I work on mixed-media nests (with poetry incubating)… I am learning a lot about nests and the birds that build them.
A little shocked at first to learn that eagles lay two eggs (rarely 3) but there intention is to have one child.
And my younger brother thought things were tough with three older sisters.
Chicks – Sometimes two chicks will survive, but it is not uncommon for the older eaglet to kill the smaller one, especially if the older is a female, as females are consistently larger than males. Should one chick decide to kill its sibling, neither parent will make the slightest effort to stop the fratricide.
I love working with Jamie @vanmaritime and Kay Slater and all involved in http://cacv.ca/debridementproject. Come down on Mon Feb 11 1-5pm.
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