progress shots

Winter wren progression.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yMhWFXEhbI 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3stjv9Jov4A

Cleo

I met this person a while ago. They burst into my life, out of nowhere, out of the blue, just showed up and started making me see things, realize things, started teaching me things not by trying to teach me things but simply by being themselves.  I've seen a depth of beauty, capability, grace, forgiveness, and charity in this person that I literally did not know was possible, an energy, an inner light that just permeates into and through everything around them.  Having the knowledge that there's a person like this living is so inspiring, so motivating.  This knowledge has been consistently allowing me to see more ways of improving my artwork.  It's like its increased the amount of beauty I can find in everything else, and, in the case of my birds,  if I see my work lacking beauty, this persons influence in my life gives me a vision of how to improve it.   The more people like this I have in my life, the better.

 Here is the evolution of Cleo:

 

 

 

 In preparation for the next showing of my birds, I'm considering a lot of my older work again, and with some I've been able to go back in and improve them.  Cleo's starting to pop out a little more, starting to look a little less washed out and a little more vibrant.  Also I realized this morning while walking to work that I have 18 of these birds now.  More to come, and a song to fit my mood:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fle-zebSXNc

Eldridge (Learning out loud)

This is Eldridge.  I'm still unaware of any one specific meaning in my drawings, and still without an artist statement.  You might say I am in a period of honing my craft, not only in my drawing but in all other areas of life as well.  I aim to be in this stage always.  Constantly improving, constantly growing. 

I understand art as being a state of mind, a way of living life. 

Trying, by De La Soul:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8TF1o4H92I

Cardinal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUQcZwgSpNY

Crested Titmouse

it's all for the birds, all of it

Nobody can touch this original work of mine. This bird is portrayed much larger than it is in reality, because it has been torn away from all context. Forget angry birds, they are nothing. This is a real bird, with real malice, and ill will towards you. Let its gaze penetrate your soul, and see your faults. All pain is an illusion.