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Today in our back yard the bluebirds are guarding their bird house chasing sparrows away. In this painting I became more comfortable piling on the paint thicker than I used to. "Blue Bird" was fun to paint. I was not trying to be a nature artist. I was going for feeling not knowing at all what kind of image would emerge. For awhile the paintifng was of a blue bird. The blue bird was covered and then it emerged again. My process is more of a journey setting up one accident after another. Some of these accidents are based on other paintings that I have been doing. Most of the time I obliverate the accidents until I arrive at a satisfying result.
6 comments:
Are blue birds mythologically connected to magic or good fortune? I think I vaguely remember a fairy tale about a blue bird.
Princess Haiku,
Very interesting question. I would like to research that. I feel connected to blue birds. I think if I pickeda bird spirit it would be a bluebird. They sit and watch for bugs on the ground and then they swoop down on them. They are not really very good at flying like swallows who pick bugs out of the air. As parents they fearlessly defend their hatch. They will go after birds much larger than themselves. The male stays with the female helping her feed the chics. They keep the same mate for life.
Wikipedia has an article on the Bluebird of happiness at:
http://en.wikepedia.org/wiki/Bluebird_of_happiness
correction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebird_of_happiness
i love this painting of the blue bird. It is so joyful
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