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Winter Entertaiment

January 25, 2018

   I love birds and I have this great hanging feeder just outside my studio window.  I wish I could enjoy their antics year round but that isn't allowed where I live.  Bears have learned how delicious sunflowers seeds taste and as we say in Alaska, "A fed bear is a dead bear".  Once a bear finds that kind of food source he can get a little TOO pushy about getting fed regularly.  Nothing good comes from that situation.  So winter is the season for sleeping bears and busy birds.

   It is a beautiful snowy day with light flakes drifting down.  I decided to sketch some of the activity around the window.  The background is a collage using magazine pages sealed down with Golden gel medium on a canvas panel.  I used a stencil and acrylic paint to get some texture that gives the loose feel of snow falling.  The nuthatch was drawn on a heavy watercolor paper and then watercolor was added.  I cut out the design and added some touches of colored pencil to help it stand out from the busy background.  I used a simple glue stick to adhere the bird to the panel.  I like the busyness of background.  I feel it matches the energy of these little creatures that have to work so hard to keep themselves fed and warm in 3 degree weather!

   Look our your window today and see what inspires you.  Are you thinking," I know there is nothing inspiring out this window!"  Look again, you might surprise yourself.

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