Dinner For One

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Pansies have been my life for a while maybe I am having separations anxieties with summer, who knows.  I wanted to present this one a little differently so I introduced my little hummingbird.  When we were camped on Texada Island in July we saw lots of these little guys buzzing around the bird feeder.  Several campers had feeders up as well, there were so many around.  I had no idea that they chattered and chittered so much and you wouldn’t believe how territorial they are!  This little guy would certainly be dining alone. 

On Tuesday, Nov 1, I  hung the show Art With An Attitude with Becky McMahon www.triskeltreecreations.com and Brenda Hill www.myartclub.com/brenda.hill.  My pansies made a nice little grouping on one of the walls.  The show is at Newton Cultural Center, 13530 72 Ave. Surrey.  The reception is this Sat, Nov 5, 1-5pm and this Sun. Nov 6, 1-3pm I will be doing a demo there on “Drawing Animals in Graphite”.  If you live in the area come on by,  I would love to share my art with you.

Three's A Crowd

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As I promised more of my pansies -  Yes, I do love pansies and I was really taken with these double pansies.  They just seemed to have so much more personality than the single petal ones.  Don’t get me wrong I like them too but . . . 

After the Chatty Twosome failed as a threesome I went back to my drawing board to try again.  I combined my pansy challenge with the requirement that I try something different for cropping.  I usually keep my subjects more centered and I am reluctant to cut them off.  This was a real attempt at a new way, for me anywhere, of cropping my flowers.  When I was done I felt sorry for the little guy on the left and hence my title, Three’s A Crowd!!



Chatty Twosome

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CHATTY TWOSOME under construction



No, I am not finished with summer yet and actually with all sales of winter pansies on right now it may be some time before I pack it in!!
My latest piece, Chatty Twosome, grew out of some work I am doing on composition. I had some great pictures of  pansies and I wanted to experiment with different compositions. The first picture started out with great promise but quickly turned on me. As you can see from the layout, the composition didn’t work and so I started to crop away. (I know you saw what I did to my birds in my Sept 26 post "Hacked and Burned; I am really becoming lethal with my scissors.) My goal is to work with different compositions so nothing is sacred! When I was finished, this chatty little twosome emerged. 

CHATTY TWOSOME - 3.5 x 3.5 - Available

More pansies are on the board with my next post as I am using the same subject to force myself to try different approaches.
(As an aside, you can also see from the unfinished areas the effects of my glazing on the background. It started off very light and multicoloured but it seemed to gain more richness and depth the more layers I put on.)