Wren Security Check: Continued

No Hawks Circling Today
Size: 5 in. X 7 in. (12.7 cm X 17.8 cm) acrylic on hand primed board unframed $125 with free shipping in USA and Canada.
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In this view the Wren is scouting out the sky and areas above the birdhouse during her security check.
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Mother Wren Doing A Security Check
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After studying a series of photos I took of this little House Wren, I discovered what she was doing. Because she was moving so fast during the session while I was shooting the photos I thought she was just flitting around to find a landing spot. The stopped action photos revealed she was really doing a thorough security check around the birdhouse before entering to sit on her nest. This first view shows her checking out the birdhouse from the roof. I’ll follow this painting with a series of other views as she goes through the security check before deciding all is clear. Keep watching.

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The Door

The Door
7” x 5” (17.8cm x 12.7cm) acrylic on hand primed board unframed $125 with free shipping in USA and Canada.
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The door is a powerful symbol of many things in our world. We see new beginnings and new transitions as we enter or go into an unfamiliar place. As I travel around the world the door has much the same meaning in every culture even though we use different words as we describe or speak about it, however in Christian iconography the Door has become a symbol of forgiveness, salvation, transformation and entrance into the eternal.

I found this old door on an Ohio farm building and like many others I’ve painted, it tells it’s own story of the passage of time and change. Parts of it have fallen away and time has weathered and changed its surface. We can speculate as to what has caused all the scars and punctures, but only knowledge of this place and someone who has lived here really knows the whole story. Yet, as artistic form it has its own integrity of meaning woven into the patterns, colors, and textures we can admire and enjoy for what it is in the present.

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Magical Moment Into the Thicket: A Fleeing Whitetail Doe

Magical Moment Into the Thicket: A Fleeing Whitetail Doe
8" x 10" (20.3cm x 25.4cm) acrylic on hand primed board unframed $325 with free shipping in USA and Canada.
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This scene comes from the same part of Ohio where we discovered the “Grey Mares”. We were watching a herd of deer in a field but as I moved closer, one doe sensed me and headed for the thicket. I got a wonderful shot of her just before she entered the woods and later when I saw the photo it brought back this moment I wanted to paint. There was almost a phantom quality about the doe before she disappeared as if she could be perceived but existed only in spirit.

I believe art is about seeing things that bring back feelings and memories, then bringing those things to life in a painting. This is what artistic vision is about so I hope you will enjoy experiencing this new one.

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Two Dapple Grey Mares

Two Dapple Grey Mares
10" x 8" (25.4cm x 20.3cm) acrylic on hand primed board unframed $325 with free shipping in USA and Canada.
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Holmes County, Ohio is home to many fine Amish farms. Traveling in that area this summer, we came across this farm with two Dapple Gray mares in the pasture. I’m more accustomed to seeing Belgian horses or mules on Amish farms so it was a surprise to see these two beautiful Grays in this area, and I knew right away I wanted to do a painting of these beautiful animals. You can tell a “Grey” from a white horse by their dark skin color seen in the ears, around the eyes, nose and legs where there is no white hair to cover the skin.

This painting sends me back to my childhood in Illinois where I remember a neighbor who had a team of Dapple Grays and one year plowed my grandmother’s garden with them.

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