I have missed painting. I haven't held my brushes since before Christmas, but today I got back to them. I paint on Monday afternoons with a group of old ladies. They mostly paint lighthouses and birds and tell me that my stuff is 'weird.' Every so often I paint a bird just to keep them happy.
I finished this piece today. I had started it back in November, but had to set it aside. I had painted the background and put in the collage materials at the lower left corner. (It's a couple of illustrations from an old Maytag repair catalog.) It was easy to set aside as I really didn't have any idea of how I wanted to fill the space. But, flipping through my sketch book I found a drawing of a bird that I thought I could translate to paint. And so...
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