Day 3. Your Own Backyard

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”3.22″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row” _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}” column_structure=”2_3,1_3″][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.11.3″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]

“Your Own Backyard” 5×7, oil on canvas

My mother-in-law takes photographs and writes poetry. This January she’s creating images from her own backyard and when she posted a picture of a little bluebird, I fell in love. He was cute and poised, practically begging for me to turn him into a painting. So I tried, thinking it’d be an easy one. It wasn’t. The painting was just okay. 

So I moved onto another little I had been working on. A painting that continues a figurative series I started a couple months ago. Notice the little bluebird on top who has found a nest among the wild and unkempt landscape of her head.

I don’t think this series has yet run its course. I’m not sure where else I want it to go or what else I want to do with it, but I know the fact that I have a series going keeps me from forever looking at a blank canvas wondering what, of all the infinite possibilities, I could choose as my subject. 

So often limitation feeds expansion. It’s like discovering the universe in your own backyard.

[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_sidebar area=”sidebar-1″ admin_label=”Sidebar” _builder_version=”3.0.74″ remove_border=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_sidebar][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]