“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.
Absolutely stunning composition!
Darn it. That was me with the anonymous comment!