A Week of Haiku: Week Two, finished set

This is an original, one-of-a-kind set of seven mixed-media collage ACEOs ("Art Card, Edition and Original"). It is Week Two in the project series "A Week of Haiku." A new card is created each day for a week, beginning on Sunday; on Saturday the seven cards of the week are combined into a set. This set is from February 12 to 24, 2007.

Media: Regular and metallic acrylic, gold leaf, gloss varnish, and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper. The back of each card is decorated with dark blue-on-blue handmade "Tibetan Cloud" print paper, as shown in the first photo. Each card is initialed, dated, and numbered by the artist.

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

Each of the seven cards comes in a protective plastic sleeve and the set is in an archival kraft-stock envelope with a button + string closure. The envelope has a decorative label of papers, and gold leaf.

Buy the set from the haiku bird shop at etsy.com: haikubird.etsy.com.

etsy showcase, 24 February 2007 (12:00 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. EST), v2

A Week of Haiku: Week Two, Saturday

A Week of Haiku: Week Two, Saturday's Card.

This is an original, one-of-a-kind mixed-media collage ACEO ("Art Card, Edition and Original").

Regular and metallic acrylic, gold leaf, gloss varnish, and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper.

The back of the card is decorated with light blue-on-blue handmade "Tibetan Cloud" print paper (shown in the background), and is initialed & dated by the artist.

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

The cut-paper haiku reads:

big soft eyes sweep the
kingdoms of air and water
blue world above

A new card will be created and posted each day, beginning on Sunday. At the end of the week the seven cards will be packaged into a set, and will be available for sale from the haiku bird shop at etsy.com: haikubird.etsy.com

etsy showcase, 24 February 2007 (12:00 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. EST)

A Week of Haiku: Week Two, Friday

A Week of Haiku: Week Two, Friday's Card.

This is an original, one-of-a-kind mixed-media collage ACEO ("Art Card, Edition and Original").

Regular and metallic acrylic, gold leaf, gloss varnish, and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper.

The back of the card is decorated with light blue-on-blue handmade "Tibetan Cloud" print paper (shown in the background), and is initialed & dated by the artist.

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

The cut-paper haiku reads:

like water-serpents,
long strings of silver bubbles
deep in everything

A new card will be created and posted each day, beginning on Sunday. At the end of the week the seven cards will be packaged into a set, and will be available for sale from the haiku bird shop at etsy.com: haikubird.etsy.com

sketchbook for charity, page 002

This pen & ink drawing is part of my "Sketchbook for Charity" project. Like many artists, I spend a lot of time drawing in a sketchbook. Until now I haven't done anything with these drawings. Then I realized that through Etsy, I could sell them, and give that money to charity.

When you purchase this drawing, $20 will be donated to First Book, an international nonprofit organization that gives children from low-income families the opportunity to read and own their first new books, and provides a supply of new books to children participating in community-based mentoring, tutoring, and family literacy programs. For more about First Book, visit their website at www.firstbook.org.

This is an original page from my 8 x 5 inch Moleskine watercolor notebook. It comes "as is," meaning untrimmed, and with the perforated edge at the top; I think it would look interesting left this way, as a page, and floated in a frame, but it can be trimmed or matted to have straight edges.

This drawing is priced at $23. $3 is to help me cover the costs of Etsy, Paypal, and supplies. When you pay for this drawing, I will turn right around and donate $20 to First Book via their website. You will be sent a copy of confirmation of this donation with the drawing so that you can be sure your money was indeed donated. $20 is enough to provide EIGHT new books to children in need.

You get a nifty little original drawing, and eight children receive their very own brand new books to read and cherish. How can you lose?

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painting on canvas: hummingbird in white on white

A white hummingbird in flight with a cream moon and an eggshell sky.
This is an original painting on canvas, NOT a print.

Media: acrylic and gloss varnish on canvas.
Size: 5 x 5 x 1.5 inches.

This painting is on a gallery profile stretched canvas, 1.5" deep: heavy duty canvas, staple-free edges, tailored corners. No need to frame this piece -- the sides and back are painted as well (the image itself wraps to 3 sides) and it is ready for hanging; it even stands by itself on a table-top or shelf. It is finished with a coat of gloss varnish.

Completed 02.22.07.

Buy this piece from the haiku bird shop at etsy.com: haikubird.etsy.com.

abstract miniature painting, no. 006

This miniature abstract painting is an original, handmade work, and one of a kind. The painting is in acrylic and gold leaf on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper. The painting is finished with a protective acrylic gloss varnish. It is affixed to the frame with ph-neutral solvent-free PVA.

The frame is 2-3/8" tall by 2-7/8" wide. The painting is 1-7/8" by 2-3/8" wide. The frame is metal, with raised floral decoration, finished in gold, and considered a 1/12th scale miniature.

You don't need a dollhouse to display one of these paintings: it stands lovely on its own as a tiny work of art, perhaps on a miniature easel.

Completed 02.23.07.

Buy this piece from the haiku bird shop at etsy.com: haikubird.etsy.com.

abstract miniature painting, no. 005

This miniature abstract painting is an original, handmade work, and one of a kind. The painting is in acrylic and gold leaf on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper. The painting is finished with a protective acrylic gloss varnish. It is affixed to the frame with ph-neutral solvent-free PVA.

The frame is 2-3/8" tall by 2-7/8" wide. The painting is 1-7/8" by 2-3/8" wide. The frame is metal, with raised floral decoration, finished in gold, and considered a 1/12th scale miniature.

You don't need a dollhouse to display one of these paintings: it stands lovely on its own as a tiny work of art, perhaps on a miniature easel.

Completed 02.23.07.

Buy this piece from the haiku bird shop at etsy.com: haikubird.etsy.com.

A Week of Haiku: Week Two, Thursday

A Week of Haiku: Week Two, Thursday's Card.

This is an original, one-of-a-kind mixed-media collage ACEO ("Art Card, Edition and Original").

Regular and metallic acrylic, gold leaf, gloss varnish, and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper.

The back of the card is decorated with light blue-on-blue handmade "Tibetan Cloud" print paper (shown in the background), and is initialed & dated by the artist.

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

The cut-paper haiku reads:

listening to them,
the long lights and torn shadows
illumination

A new card will be created and posted each day, beginning on Sunday. At the end of the week the seven cards will be packaged into a set, and will be available for sale from the haiku bird shop at etsy.com: haikubird.etsy.com

hummingbirds in situ

33 Birds in 33 Days, nos. 1, 3, 6, 7, & 13 in their new home. A flock.

Photos courtesy the owners.

A Week of Haiku: Week Two, Wednesday

A Week of Haiku: Week Two, Wednesday's Card.

This is an original, one-of-a-kind mixed-media collage ACEO ("Art Card, Edition and Original").

Regular and metallic acrylic, gold leaf, gloss varnish, and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper.

The back of the card is decorated with light blue-on-blue handmade "Tibetan Cloud" print paper (shown in the background), and is initialed & dated by the artist.

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

The cut-paper haiku reads:

bird architecture
strikingly manifested
curious mansion

A new card will be created and posted each day, beginning on Sunday. At the end of the week the seven cards will be packaged into a set, and will be available for sale from the haiku bird shop at etsy.com: haikubird.etsy.com

sketchbook for charity, page 001

This pen & ink drawing is part of my "Sketchbook for Charity" project. Like many artists, I spend a lot of time drawing in a sketchbook. Until now I haven't done anything with these drawings. Then I realized that through Etsy, I could sell them, and give that money to charity.

When you purchase this drawing, $20 will be donated to First Book, an international nonprofit organization that gives children from low-income families the opportunity to read and own their first new books, and provides a supply of new books to children participating in community-based mentoring, tutoring, and family literacy programs. For more about First Book, visit their website at www.firstbook.org.

This is an original page from my 8 x 5 inch Moleskine watercolor notebook. It comes "as is," meaning untrimmed, and with the perforated edge at the top; I think it would look interesting left this way, as a page, and floated in a frame, but it can be trimmed or matted to have straight edges.

This drawing is priced at $23. $3 is to help me cover the costs of Etsy, Paypal, and supplies. When you pay for this drawing, I will turn right around and donate $20 to First Book via their website. You will be sent a copy of confirmation of this donation with the drawing so that you can be sure your money was indeed donated. $20 is enough to provide EIGHT new books to children in need.

You get a nifty little original drawing, and eight children receive their very own brand new books to read and cherish. How can you lose?

S O L D

A Week of Haiku: Week Two, Tuesday

A Week of Haiku: Week Two, Tuesday's Card.

This is an original, one-of-a-kind mixed-media collage ACEO ("Art Card, Edition and Original").

Regular and metallic acrylic, gold leaf, gloss varnish, and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper.

The back of the card is decorated with light blue-on-blue handmade "Tibetan Cloud" print paper (shown in the background), and is initialed & dated by the artist.

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

The cut-paper haiku reads:

silvery lace-work
succession of silent pools,
winter clouds have bloomed

A new card will be created and posted each day, beginning on Sunday. At the end of the week the seven cards will be packaged into a set, and will be available for sale from the haiku bird shop at etsy.com: haikubird.etsy.com

A Week of Haiku: Week Two, Monday

A Week of Haiku: Week Two, Monday's Card.

This is an original, one-of-a-kind mixed-media collage ACEO ("Art Card, Edition and Original").

Regular and metallic acrylic, gold leaf, gloss varnish, and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper.

The back of the card is decorated with light blue-on-blue handmade "Tibetan Cloud" print paper (shown in the background), and is initialed & dated by the artist.

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

The cut-paper haiku reads:

for every flock that
tended to lull my senses
wheeling and twisting

lower as they passed
I met still more, farther on.
they emerge and glide

A new card will be created and posted each day, beginning on Sunday. At the end of the week the seven cards will be packaged into a set, and will be available for sale from the haiku bird shop at etsy.com: haikubird.etsy.com

painting on canvas: hummingbird and silver moon on purple sky

A hummingbird in shades of blues and purples, in flight with a metallic silver moon and a sky in deep, nearly-black purple (dioxazine purple).
This is an original painting on canvas, NOT a print.

Media: acrylic and gloss varnish on canvas.
Size: 5 x 5 x 1.5 inches.

This painting is on a gallery profile stretched canvas, 1.5" deep: heavy duty canvas, staple-free edges, tailored corners. No need to frame this piece -- the sides and back are painted as well (the image itself wraps to 3 sides) and it is ready for hanging; it even stands by itself on a table-top or shelf. It is finished with a coat of gloss varnish.

Completed 02.19.07.

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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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A Week of Haiku: Week Two, Sunday

A Week of Haiku: Week Two, Sunday's Card.

This is an original, one-of-a-kind mixed-media collage ACEO ("Art Card, Edition and Original").

Regular and metallic acrylic, gold leaf, gloss varnish, and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper.

The back of the card is decorated with light blue-on-blue handmade "Tibetan Cloud" print paper (shown in the background), and is initialed & dated by the artist.

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

The cut-paper haiku reads:

the close white water
their graceful rounded necks, the
mother-of-pearl

A new card will be created and posted each day, beginning on Sunday. At the end of the week the seven cards will be packaged into a set, and will be available for sale from the haiku bird shop at etsy.com: haikubird.etsy.com

A Week of Haiku: Week One, finished set

This is an original, one-of-a-kind set of seven mixed-media collage ACEOs ("Art Card, Edition and Original"). It is Week One in the project series "A Week of Haiku." A new card is created each day for a week, beginning on Sunday; on Saturday the seven cards of the week are combined into a set. This set is from February 11 to 17, 2007.

Media: Regular and metallic acrylic, gloss varnish, and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper. The back of each card is decorated with dark blue-on-blue handmade "Tibetan Cloud" print paper, as shown in the first photo. Each card is initialed, dated, and numbered by the artist.

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

Each of the seven cards comes in a protective plastic sleeve and the set is in an archival kraft-stock envelope with a button + string closure. The envelope has a decorative label of papers, and gold leaf.

Buy the set from the haiku bird shop at etsy.com: haikubird.etsy.com.

A Week of Haiku: Week One, Saturday

A Week of Haiku: Week One, Saturday's Card.

This is an original, one-of-a-kind mixed-media collage ACEO ("Art Card, Edition and Original").

Regular and metallic acrylic, gloss varnish, and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper.

Dark blue-on-blue handmade "Tibetan Cloud" print paper (shown in the background) is adhered to the back of the card. The back is initialed and dated by the artist.

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

The cut-paper haiku reads:

depth of the water
delicate in colorings
a thing of beauty.

A new card will be created and posted each day, beginning on Sunday. At the end of the week the seven cards will be packaged into a set, and will be available for sale from the haiku bird shop at etsy.com: haikubird.etsy.com

A Week of Haiku: Week One, Friday

A Week of Haiku: Week One, Friday's Card.

This is an original, one-of-a-kind mixed-media collage ACEO ("Art Card, Edition and Original").

Regular and metallic acrylic, gloss varnish, and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper.

Dark blue-on-blue handmade "Tibetan Cloud" print paper (shown in the background) is adhered to the back of the card. The back is initialed and dated by the artist.

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

The cut-paper haiku reads:

young birds, however,
leave us very early. When
quite unexpected,

we looked in upon
the imagination; and
out of the orchard.

A new card will be created and posted each day, beginning on Sunday. At the end of the week the seven cards will be packaged into a set, and will be available for sale from the haiku bird shop at etsy.com: haikubird.etsy.com

etsy showcase, 16 February 2007 (12:00 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. EST)

A Week of Haiku: Week One, Thursday

A Week of Haiku: Week One, Thursday's Card.

This is an original, one-of-a-kind mixed-media collage ACEO ("Art Card, Edition and Original").

Regular and metallic acrylic, gloss varnish, and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper.

Dark blue-on-blue handmade "Tibetan Cloud" print paper (shown in the background) is adhered to the back of the card. The back is initialed and dated by the artist.

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

The cut-paper haiku reads:

could hear her humming,
she flew away, and was gone,
the earth with her mouth

A new card will be created and posted each day, beginning on Sunday. At the end of the week the seven cards will be packaged into a set, and will be available for sale from the haiku bird shop at etsy.com: haikubird.etsy.com

A Week of Haiku: Week One, Wednesday

A Week of Haiku: Week One, Wednesday's Card.

This is an original, one-of-a-kind mixed-media collage ACEO ("Art Card, Edition and Original").

Regular and metallic acrylic, gloss varnish, and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper.

Dark blue-on-blue handmade "Tibetan Cloud" print paper (shown in the background) is adhered to the back of the card. The back is initialed and dated by the artist.

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

The cut-paper haiku reads:

hardly bigger than
a baby learning to stand,
the bird was asleep.

A new card will be created and posted each day, beginning on Sunday. At the end of the week the seven cards will be packaged into a set, and will be available for sale from the haiku bird shop at etsy.com: haikubird.etsy.com

A Week of Haiku: Week One, Tuesday

A Week of Haiku: Week One, Tuesday's Card.

This is an original, one-of-a-kind mixed-media collage ACEO ("Art Card, Edition and Original").

Regular and metallic acrylic, gloss varnish, and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper.

Dark blue-on-blue handmade "Tibetan Cloud" print paper (shown in the background) is adhered to the back of the card. The back is initialed and dated by the artist.

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

The cut-paper haiku reads:

As she worked, she called
continuously, filling
for several hours,

color of the nest
the tangle of nestlings, then
black-and-flame-colored

A new card will be created and posted each day, beginning on Sunday. At the end of the week the seven cards will be packaged into a set, and will be available for sale from the haiku bird shop at etsy.com: haikubird.etsy.com

hummingbird and silver moon on clay-rose sky

A silvered metallic-hued hummingbird with a silver moon and a clay-rose sky. Completed 02.12.07.

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

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

Size: image area 4 x 4 inches, plus a 2 inch border; total sheet size 8 x 8 inches.

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A Week of Haiku: Week One, Monday

A Week of Haiku: Week One, Monday's Card.

This is an original, one-of-a-kind mixed-media collage ACEO ("Art Card, Edition and Original").

Regular and metallic acrylic, gloss varnish, and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper.

Dark blue-on-blue handmade "Tibetan Cloud" print paper (shown in the background) is adhered to the back of the card. The back is initialed and dated by the artist.

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

The cut-paper haiku reads:

free, the birds should sing,
a season remarkable
the untamed spirit

A new card will be created and posted each day, beginning on Sunday. At the end of the week the seven cards will be packaged into a set, and will be available for sale from the haiku bird shop at etsy.com: haikubird.etsy.com

A Week of Haiku: Week One, Sunday

A Week of Haiku: Week One, Sunday's Card.

This is an original, one-of-a-kind mixed-media collage ACEO ("Art Card, Edition and Original").

Regular and metallic acrylic, gloss varnish, and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper.

Dark blue-on-blue handmade "Tibetan Cloud" print paper (shown in the background) is adhered to the back of the card. The back is initialed and dated by the artist.

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

The cut-paper haiku reads:

what fascination
roaring like the sea, almost
to shake off the moon.

A new card will be created and posted each day, beginning on Sunday. At the end of the week the seven cards will be packaged into a set, and will be available for sale from the haiku bird shop at etsy.com: haikubird.etsy.com

new project: A Week of Haiku

Today I'm embarking upon my second "official" haiku bird project: A Week of Haiku. This will be a series of ACEOs (Art Cards: Editions and Originals), original, one of a kind artist trading cards. ACEOs have one rule -- they must be 3.5 x 2.5 inches in size. Other than that, anything goes. They can be originals or editioned prints. They're traded, or bought and sold, and collected much like other types of trading cards. (I have several that I've completed; click on the ACEO label to see all of those posts.) For more information see this article in wikipedia.

So, the project. Each day I will create an ACEO with an cut-paper assembled haiku. One each day for a week. The week's cards will be cut down from one large collaged / painted background, so the week as a whole will be of the same design. At the end of the week I will have seven cards, which I will package up nicely and sell as a set in my shop on Etsy.

Week One starts today. And over time we'll see how many weeks I continue this project!

little clouds in metal & jewel tones on black night sky

Little zen-style clouds in bronze, silver, and jewel-like blue and purple drift through the night sky. Completed 02.11.07.

This is an original drawing, NOT a print.

Media: pen & ink and metallic gel pen on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper.

Size: image area about 3 x 3 inches, plus a 2 inch border, making the whole thing 7 x 7 inches.

This drawing could really be oriented in any direction. This is my preference.

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This drawing was my [second] solution to the Etsy Creative Challenge #37: "slumber party."

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.

Buy this piece from the haiku bird shop at etsy.com: haikubird.etsy.com.

hummingbird perched with blossoms

A hummingbird perched on a bronze branch with dark pink blossoms; the background is in warm gray. Completed 02.10.07.

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

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

Size: image area 5 x 3 inches, plus a 2.5 inch border; total sheet size 10 x 8.

The branches and blossoms are in metallic gel pen, the background in colored pencil.

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little clouds in grays and blue on black night sky

Little zen-style clouds in shades of blue and gray drift through the night sky. Completed 02.08.07.

This is an original drawing, NOT a print.

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

Size: image area about 3 x 3 inches, plus a 2 inch border, making the whole thing 7 x 7 inches.

This drawing could really be oriented in any direction. This is my preference.

Buy this piece from the haiku bird shop at etsy.com: haikubird.etsy.com.

This drawing was my solution to the Etsy Creative Challenge #37: "slumber party."

hummingbird and ginger moon on black cherry sky

A hummingbird on a metallic-ginger colored moon with a black-cherry background. Completed 02.07.07.

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

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

Size: image area 4 x 4 inches, plus a 2 inch border; total sheet size 8 x 8 inches.

The moon is painted in "unbleached titanium" acrylic, with a top coat of iridescent acrylic medium. In person, the moon is bright and clear, with a light metallic iridescent sheen. Unfortunately, the scanner picks up the metallic particles in the medium and renders them a slightly dingy gray, so the images are not representative of the delicacy of the original.

Buy this piece from the haiku bird shop at etsy.com: haikubird.etsy.com.

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

Buy this piece from the haiku bird shop at etsy.com: haikubird.etsy.com.

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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hummingbird in browns on blue

A chocolate-brown and black-cherry hummingbird in flight on a powdery kind-of-slate-blue background. Completed 02.04.07.

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

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

Size: 7.125 x 9 inches, including black border.

The black border is 1.25 inches wide and inked by hand with a .5 mm pen -- thus it has subtle "texture" and patterns; prior to the painting the border was sprayed with several extra layers of protective matte fixative which gives it a slight frosted appearance. The blue acrylic plane with the bird is gloss varnished, very rich, and really stands out from the border, creating an interesting dimensional effect.

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33 days, 33 birds: no. 33 (01.31.07), or, I'm FINALLY finished

33 Birds in 33 Days: a New Year's project in which a new hummingbird drawing will be published each day from December 30, 2006 to January 31, 2007. This is no. 33, the final bird.

Pen & ink, metallic acrylic, composition gold leaf, pastel, colored pencil and graphite on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper.

Sheet size: 8.325 x 7.5 inches

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