Bird Man

I must thank Katherine for this, because she made a comment on my last post and said "bird man" and now I WANT TO DO A BIRD MAN.

I think it would be really fun, and of course it's been done before but I want to see if I can do it. I feel like my last piece had some more man qualities to it, just the posture of the one bird and his meaty legs, but now I want to push that, might as well!

(Apparently birdman is a rapper, because I tried to get a picture, but this was all I could get.)

Thairrand

We're talking to our excellent friend Helen and this piece of work reminds me of her presense in our life and how much we miss her :]

And I really really really like this bird, it's new, and adorable, and honest, and glorious. I feel inspired, paint could be fun, but I doubt I will actually do so.

Actually I'm considering doing a painting just for fun, to get some other stuff out, but keep myself interested so I don't get too wrapped up, I don't even know what I'm talking about.

I don't know why I'm posting this, it will be my homework for next week. DONE.

Ladies and gentlemen, Rick Bartow...

January is done.

Concentration: Birds. Sadly that's it right now.

Pieces:

ONE.

• I don't know if the eye works. Can you even see it?
• I was shooting for a lot of movement in the body. Did that work out?

TWO.

• The diagonal line that follows along the wing and yellow bothers me.
• Is they eye alright?
• Can you even tell it's holding a snake, does it even matter?

No reason.

I'm going through a stage where I want to do the same piece over and over again and I know they look the same while I'm doing them but I can't stop. This sucks.

I'm going to focus as much as I can to start to mix it up. Now I actually want to make birds something interesting.

Goals:

1. Do way more pieces than necessary so I can pick my favorites that display growth in the end.

2. Use different colors in each piece.

3. Make birds do something. I can't stop making a bird standing there doing nothing.

4. Make birds something that people can care about. Right now I don't even care about my birds.

End of story.

Kind of late

Off t0 MCAD! Woooooooooooooooo

Workinworkin

I feel like I need to do some projects. Lots of projects. I shouldn't worry about them once I start them and I shouldn't think about the outcome before I start it, I know it makes me nervous and I usually overwork the piece.

I feel like I say that all the time.

But now I need to actually do that. I'm pretty excited for class tomorrow, but right now I'm watching Harry Potter on tv, so I'm pretty satisfied with not doing some art right now. I'll just do it tomorrow :]

Found!

Check itttttt. Nice site with some nice birds.

I should really figure out what I'm doing painting all these birds. I kind of feel silly, but it's enjoyable. So I'm likin' it.

This guy does some glorious things to them.

http://www.frankgonzales.net/PAINTINGS.html



I also just had to mention my neighbor...Beth Sautter.
We have a couple of her pieces. I just really like them. They're teeny too.

http://www.bethsautter.com/new_paintings/index.html