Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family. Show all posts

Monday, October 21, 2013

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


Saturday, April 13, 2013

Judy Pose

My Aunt Judy continues to stay young with yoga and t'ai chi. She is an all-around great person. One of her daughters (thus, one of my cousins, if you're keeping track) commissioned this for her as a present. I had to paint her wearing black. She always wears black. 

Length of guinea feather: 4"