Bird is the Word
The economy has made the art fair season slow going this year. One can really see the influence of the recession on spending habits. It has definitely made me think more creatively about how to offer high quality art at an affordable price. A few years ago I created a mixed media series of smaller canvases so I thought that I might go back to that model this year and create some mini 10 inch square, framed pastel drawings. Mini is not usually a word in my drawing vocabulary- my motto is usually go big or go home! But, big is not in the budget for most people so mini is the word of the day. In many of my larger paintings one can usually spot a bird or an animal of some sort so I thought that the focus of my first series of minis would be birds in all of their playful, whimsical glory. I'm planning on having the first set of six available at my next open studio July 2.


