HuMp DaY Haiku - Ruffled by the wind

Rough-Legged Hawk. Perched 

high at the top of the trees;

Ruffled by the wind

A year or so ago, I started doing Hump Day Haiku with Carla Sonheim's Silly classes and decided as a challenge for myself, I'd continue. I have found that creating a haiku (non rhyming poem with 5 - 7 - 5 syllables per line) feeds my soul. I especially like creating them to go with my photos and art. 

Would you like to share a haiku you have written? 

You may include a haiku in the comments, OR you may copy your blog post url (featuring a haiku) and add a link to your blog using Mr. Linky. And consider visiting other contributors blogs to see what they've created and say hello. 

Chickadee!

Playing with chickadees this week, including this new name tag for work. 

I decided to change for winter, although I really like this little fellow so he may stay around! And chickadees ARE in our yard year round. It makes me happy to have a little bird friend at work.  Some days I really need him. :)

My chickadee is on 165# cover stock, so is fairly sturdy. He's hand cut, and hand painted with acrylic paints and has a pin back attached.

He goes on this apron that I shared last May when I painted it for work. :)

Happy Friday! 

Keeping busy!

Still working on little art pieces (and some bigger ones too) both for my Etsy shop, AND to keep my booth full at the Allied Arts Holiday Festival of the Arts.  The show continues Wed - Sunday until Dec 24th.  I promise that next year I'll be more organized and have more pieces done ahead of time. I will!  :)

3 1/2 x 2 1/2 Canvas - Old Time Santa Beeswax collage

3 x 3 Canvas - Red Breast beeswax collage

Mixed media swallow ornaments

Happy Paint Party Friday! Thanks, Eva and Kristin for hosting! 

Happy Bird

Another little canvas for the Holiday Festival of the Arts... Happy Bird

This is a 3 x 3 x 3/4 inch canvas, that started out with a bit of a 1960s school workbook as the background. A bit of paint, stenciling and collage later, and I think it's done. 

On another note, I was delighted to hear that a location has finally been secured for the Holiday Festival this year... 1200 Meador Ave. in the Haskell Business Center. Yay! Local to Whatcom and Skagit County folks should come check it out. 

Sharing today with Paint Party Friday, hosted by Eva and Kristin! 

If you have time, do check out what the other artists are working on this week. 

Blue Bird

It's Friday, and I'm playing with Paint Party Friday again this week, hosted by Eva and Kristin. I'm showing a new little 4x4 mixed media canvas I finished this afternoon.

Available in my Etsy

The colors are much richer than the photo shows, more yellowy green in the background. Ah well! 

This little bluebird has come to bring me, hopefully, a better frame of mind. I've had a rough week or two, and am a bit in the doldrums today. Among other things, (long boring stories) our weather has turned chilly again, and we're headed into Autumn without actually having summer. (I don't count 2-3 days over 80 as summer, sorry!)  It makes me grumpy to have to wear socks to keep my toes warm at the end of August.
And since I'm in such a funk already without sufficient sunlight, I'm going shopping for SAD lights: one for my office and one for my reading chair and one for my studio. If I'm this blue at the end of August, December will freak me out! *tee hee*

Check in with the other Paint Party Friday artists and see what beautiful art they have created this week.

Thanks for stopping by!

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Scattered - but productive

It's been a scattered week... best laid plans and all that. Dealing with some changes that are disrupting my usual flow has been challenging. Although I did have a quiet day today, and completed a couple of small pieces for my Etsy shop. Both are mixed media collages using beeswax to meld it all together. I just love beeswax!

The large (for me) canvas I started last week is still looking at me, wondering what else will appear. I have a couple of ideas and haven't yet figured out how to execute them.


I started an 8x10 canvas board in the same style... papers, brayered paint and this one has stenciling.

And here they both sit in the studio... ideas percolating as I see them each time I come into the room. 

Because it's that time of the week, I'm sharing with Paint Party Friday, hosted by the fabulous Eva and Kristin! I hope you have time to check out some of the other PPF artists! They always inspire me! 



Also linking with Artists in Blogland

Flicker

On a frosty morning, the flicker comes to call

Mr. Flicker usually pecks at the side of the trees (or house) and scratches through the undergrowth for bugs, so it's a treat to see him "hanging out" at the feeder. This frosty morning he stayed quite a while, hogging the space. The smaller birds were a bit disgruntled, other than the chickadees who flitted to the other side of the feeder not minding he was there. 

Not the best picture, as it was taken through the sliding glass door (the birds refuse to hold still if I try to open the door, silly things!)

Joining Cheryl's "Writing on the Wall" over at mysticmissive.blogspot.com/

This photo is Straight Out Of the Camera

Nuthatch!

I was pleasantly surprised to see a red breasted nuthatch at the suet feeder outside my office window this morning. It's the first time he's visited.

We get juncos, chickadees, sparrows and towhees quite regularly, and love watching their antics. The suet feeder is upside down and similar to this, with a metal cage that my sweet husband built around it that allows the little birds in but keeps the starlings, blue jays and rats out. And my sweet husband hangs it for me (being a bit taller) right outside the window so I can watch the bird show. It makes me happy.

Speaking of birds.. one of the fun things about doing the One World One Heart event is discovering other artists and their delightful art. One blog I now follow is 2 Bags Full. She makes the most incredible nests. Go see her. As an added incentive... she is also holding a special winter drawing for a lovely sea glass pendant. Really, go check her out!

Note: the picture is not my nuthatch, but a stock image I got sometime back.

Bird Art

 

 

 

This weekend I've been hosting an All Types of Bird Art a-thon at atcsforall.com.
This is a bit of what I've created.