Gravity: drawing of hummingbird flight pattern

The flight pattern of the hummingbird. Completed 02.19.07.

Inspired by illustration friday theme "gravity."

This is an original mixed-media drawing, NOT a print.

Media: pencil and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper.

Size: image area approximately 4 x 11 inches; total sheet size 10 x 14.75 inches.

Cut-text poem reads--

Gravity
weighs heavily upon
ground dwellers, and
we seek ways to be free of its
clutches


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commissioned work: Tennessee

Tennesse was a commissioned piece. Standard ACEO size, 3.5 x 2.5 inches with rounded corners; regular and metallic acrylic, gesso, gold leaf and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper with dark blue-on-blue "tibetan cloud" print paper on the back of the card. Completed 02.18.07.

Tennessee
copilot of the
serpentine highway
long-cherished
to personify the beauty
of this immense expanse

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Birds never crash land with respect to colors.

A hovering hummingbird in many shades of purple, pink, and violet. Completed 02.10.07.

Inspired by illustration friday theme "crash."

This is an original mixed-media drawing, NOT a print.

Media: pen & ink, regular and metallic colored pencil, and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper.

Size: image area 4 x 5.5 inches, plus a 1.5 inch border; total sheet size 7 x 8.5.

Cut-text poem reads--

Birds
never crash land
with respect to colors.

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two hummingbirds on green with moon

Two perched hummingbirds in silhouette on a baltic green background with an iridescent white moon in the sky above. Completed 02.05.07.

Inspired by illustration friday theme "sprout."

This is an original mixed-media painting, NOT a print.

Media: pen & ink, regular and metallic / iridescent acrylic, and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper.

Size: image area 7 x 4 inches, plus a 1.5 inch border.

Cut-text poem reads--

hatching of the eggs,
carefully cultivated;
the babies
display their beauty

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hummingbird in reds on lilac

A perched hummingbird in reds, rust, browns, and magenta on a lilac background. Completed 02.04.07.

This is an original mixed-media painting, NOT a print.

Media: pen & ink, acrylic, colored pencil, and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper.

Size: image area 4.5 x 7.25 inches, plus a 1.5 inch border.

Cut-text poem reads:
alighted upon a limb a few feet above
the motion of its wings was stopped
guided by thought and reflection

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ACEO no. 004, word assemblage: "On the contrary,"

ACEO ("Art Card, Edition and Original") no. 004 -- word assemblage.

This is an original, one-of-a-kind mixed-media drawing.

Regular & metallic acrylic, metallic pigment, and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper.

Blue-on-blue handmade "Tibetan Cloud" print paper is adhered to the back of the card. The actual back of card 004 differs slightly in composition from the photo of the card-back shown.

3.5 x 2.5 inches with rounded corners (standard ACEO size).

Cut-paper text reads:

On the contrary,
the tangle at my feet
gray, motionless
would soon
take flight
back to the everywhere.

and clouds, we discovered
hung flutteringly over
every other sound while
with magnificent deliberation
in solemn silence
came another surprise.

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ACEO no. 003, word assemblage: "cloud followed blue sky,"

ACEO ("Art Card, Edition and Original") no. 003 -- word assemblage.

This is an original, one-of-a-kind mixed-media drawing.

Pen & ink, pencil, metallic acrylic, and cut paper on 100 lb vellum-finish Strathmore Bristol.

Blue-on-blue handmade "Tibetan Cloud" print paper is adhered to the back of the card. The actual back of card 003 differs slightly in composition from the photo of the card-back shown.

3.5 x 2.5 inches with rounded corners (standard ACEO size).

Cut-paper text reads:

cloud followed blue sky,
and the moon had already bitten
perceptible darkness

bewildering is the attempt to
catch glimpses of the
little birds
flying westward, and
unexpected places.
No bird twittered.
Absolute silence reigned.

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ACEO no. 002, "spindle-like birds,"

ACEO ("Art Card, Edition and Original") no. 002.

This is an original, one-of-a-kind mixed-media drawing.

Pen & ink, pencil, and cut paper on 100 lb vellum-finish Strathmore Bristol.

Blue-on-blue handmade "Tibetan Cloud" print paper is adhered to the back of the card.

3.5 x 2.5 inches with rounded corners (standard ACEO size).

Cut-paper text reads:
spindle-like birds,
whirring wings
buzzed all around
black-and-white
different tones --
fly swiftly
and disperse

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ACEO no. 001, "your mind"

haiku bird's first ACEO -- "Art Card, Edition and Original."

This is an original, one-of-a-kind mixed-media drawing.

Pen & ink, regular & metallic colored pencil, and cut paper on 100 lb vellum-finish Strathmore Bristol.

Blue-on-blue handmade "Tibetan Cloud" print paper is adhered to the back of the card.

3.5 x 2.5 inches with rounded corners (standard ACEO size).

Cut-paper text reads:
your mind
the pencil,
scissor-cutting
gathering
paper stars.

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over all was the singular beauty

over all was the singular beauty
the snow fields
repeated a cloud-formed mass
when the sky cleared off brightly,
the gleaming line
of life renewed,
perfectly satisfied
a bird that is not afraid

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Cut paper hummingbirds and text; background in several layers of acrylic pearlescent white and iridescent acrylic medium; the background was gloss varnished before the application of the birds and text; the entire piece is sealed with fixative. On 140 lb Canson watercolor paper.

5.5 x 9.75 inches.

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#7. the wind suddenly

the wind suddenly
suddenly swept off toward
more open waters

sunlit translucent
for some distance at least, in
milder glories

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Pen & ink, colored pencil, and cut paper on 90 lb Canson drawing paper

7 x 5.75 inches

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#4. a few clear days and

a few clear days and
softer than velvet, and its
season, now gently

or in the evening,
fluttering multitudes of
a quavering voice

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Pen & ink, regular and metallic colored pencil, and cut paper on 140 lb watercolor paper

7.5 x 6 inches

NFS