original painting
I'm delighted to share news that several of my paintings are on display at SNW Gallery! Additional works can be viewed on the gallery website. If you are in the vicinity, stop by SNW Gallery. They are in a beautiful space in downtown Manhattan, KS. There's nothing like up close, in person experiences with original art.
The Ruby-crowned kinglet is a a tiny, (not much bigger than a hummingbird) active backyard visitor. It skitters about the foliage, flicking its wings constantly, like a water droplet on a hot skillet. It’s a challenge to track this little firecracker when using binoculars. I created this abstract painting inspired by this energetic little bird.
The original painting, Jitterbird - Ruby-crowned Kinglet, is in a private collection.
The Northern cardinal is a year-round resident where I live, and frequent visitor to our backyard pond and feeders. It’s one of my favorite birds, and so not surprising perhaps, the subject for several of my paintings. In this latest work, Red Bird - Northern Cardinal, I tease apart those very cardinalesque attributes -chunky orange beak, angular crest, the male’s black mask and high-chroma scarlet feathers- and apply them to the canvas in a way that I hope is pleasing to the eye and reflective of my fondness for this lovely and cheerful song bird.
This original acrylic painting is available for purchase from my shop.
