Happy Birthday Wyndi!

My beautiful sister Wyndi asked me to paint a family portrait 

for her birthday, she envisioned this scene. 

Happy Birthday Wyndi!

wishing you a new year full of days and nights that feel wonderful to you!

xo

also

have you noticed the wee cabin photo on my sidebar?

that is home sweet home

it is time to change the window trim color

if you notice on the porch the old trim

brown and blue

today

i painted one window with merlot and mauving up

what do you think?

I think i will live with it for a while and see if it makes me smile

or shake my head

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sharing with Rose's 
August heART

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D.C.: Order and Chaos

nest: a sacred vessel

eggs: the perfect order for the promise of life

wee ones are born

then chaos begins 

big smile

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this week i have been working on two paintings with owls

in them

THEN i had an amazing encounter with THREE

Great Gray owls

a mother and two fledglings

it was at dusk, when they come out to hunt

so the photo is grainy:

Barbara Bee offered the prompt:

Order and Chaos

some how i feel that all life is contained in this theme

the word 'trust' comes to mind

sometimes we can not see where all the tiny details are heading
where they all end up
perhaps chaos leads to order
or at least it can
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thank you Barbara 

for inspiring an interesting contemplation

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Also:

a branch broke in a tree this week

it seemed like an arm offering this nest so that i could see it
previously it was hidden to my sight

such amazing 'order' in the way it is made!

grass

moss

lichen

mud

nicely glued to the branch

a sacred vessel 

for the eggs and babies it held

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Sacred Cargo

 

sacred cargo

special delivery

team work

 

some times 

i enjoy sketches as much

as the colored piece

final:

this is as close as i can photograph all the colors....

oh well

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one two three

3 ladies

sharing three stages

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 layers and layers of colors and paint 
on each face
fun to see them come to life
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