This Bird Means Business

Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a lovely holiday season. 

This bird is ready to get back to business. 

Feather: Domestic turkey

Size: 2x3" frame

Cardinal Roosting on a Magnolia

I like the combination of the bird with the magnolia so much, that I plan on continuing to experiment with it. Magnolias are a challenge to paint well, but they are worth the effort here in the Magnolia State.


On parrot feather from Clinton, MS
Length: about 6"

Grand Cardinal

My great grandmother (my father's grandmother) loved cardinals and over the more than 90 years she was alive, she received many gifts with cardinals on them...pillows, salt shakers, figurines, rugs...but of course, it was the birds in her yard that she continued to love and cherish the most. I've got lots of cardinals in my back yard too, and it always improves my day to see them. 

I picked one of my cardinal paintings to use as my advertisement in the Christmas shopping guide put out by Mississippi Magazine. This is the first major print ad I've invested in and I'm excited to see what sort of difference it makes. 

Domestic turkey tail feather: 8" long

Cardinal Love

Redbirds always make me think of my Great Grandma Gooding.

Day 19: Itty Bitty Cardinal

For my Great Grandma Gooding

This little guy is about the size of a thumbnail (painted on a grey macaw parrot feather). Great Grandma Gooding collected cardinals. She lived into her 90s and most presents that I saw given to her during the time that I knew her had something to do with cardinals, thus she had all sorts of collectables housewares decorated with red birds. They are beautiful birds that pop against Ohio's winter snow. Did she have as much of a passion for them as those who gave her gifts assumed or hoped? It often happens that when one mentions that they like a particular thing, loved ones will glom onto that idea because they want to give gifts, but are unsure of what is privately meaningful in one’s life. Before you know it, you’ve acquired a collection of something that you were simply happy to admire and enjoy in its natural state, but had no need to own. How many collections start that way?  

Length of Feather:  1/2”     

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