Cats Illustration Print

                                                                   

                                                                   We Are Friends

Do you think you feed birds first and then you also turn to bird watching? Or vice versa? These two cats feed the birds every day and purr with their eyes closed while the birds sing.

This past winter we fed the birds quite alot and are still feeding them. Woodpeckers, Cardinals, chickadees, and finch. They deserve it and help keep the garden pesticide free! We bird watch out the kitchen window. No need for binoculars as they are so close. 

The lilac buds and leaves are opening a little. Yay! The mourning doves always make a nest in one of the lilac shrubs. They are a maze of branches. Their nests are not as neat as the little grass ones other birds  make, but they do hatch out their babies nicely. The Mother and her baby snuggle and then comes flying lessons. . There's not a refrigerator or stove but Baby is well fed on the catch of the hour/day. 

I've listed a number of new artworks and prints lately. Stop by my shop, Dictionaryreader, to see sizes and titles. Fun. Fun. Fun.

Mermaid Painting Sea Gardener Daily Art

Etsy store today.

Art -- the great escape from cold blustery weather.

I will go to the beach and swim, dive and sunbathe.

Even if it's only in our minds, I can relive it over and over

each time I look at the painting, when the painting is finished.


Portfolios have been on my mind of late.

"Have recent art and be ready to talk about some of them."

Tell about why you created the piece and what it means to you -

What materials did you use and how you feel you could improve on it.

What if I spent more time and effort telling about how I could improve on it

than what it meant to me? Just kidding, but by painting every day we

can work out alot of those things.

Now art is not always an escape, it's expression, it's about colors,

it's about memories and hopes...and on and on. Soft edges, hard edges.

It's about both you and me and all the viewers.


Now to get my boots on and lock up the chickens!

Bring in the firewood and visit with both Hercules and Ion.

Art can mean something different to each artist.  

Buttontop Girls and Squirrels Illustration

Tis the season for comfort and joy...and tea. It's all sunny and warm inside while frost is forming on everything not moving outside. It's also the season when car batteries seem to go ker-plunk, but who wants to talk about that. We want to talk about cookies and pies, preserves and all those things we enjoy cooking on the stove or going in the oven. Warms us all around.

The corn has been harvested here and the fields look so bare. Not much different in color as the cornstalks were wheat color and the chopped off stalks are still the same color, but now the deer are much more visible. There's lots of dropped kernels here and there for birds and wild animals.   

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are approaching. I'm trying to add new paintings daily to my etsy store. Etsy is such a vibrant community of artists. If you've not visited it do so soon and browse many handcrafted items and works of art. Link here to Etsy