Tah Dah.

It's done. (I'm guessing around 85 hours put into it) It's submitted.

It's going up for silent auction. 

%50 goes to the cause and %50 goes to me.

Min. bid I started way lower than my normal pricing to get interest.

Who knows how it will go? It might not even sell. It's always up in the air with things like this. 

Show doesn't open until May. 

Its been on FB getting lots of love. It's been chosen by our local paper to promote the show.

It will be in print and on the racks this next Monday.

It's already gotten good response.

It feels good.

On to thinking about my next piece. I'm not going to bore you with the steps of that one though. I'm entering my colleges student show in the next week with some recent paintings and painting towards upcoming shows in June and in October. Hopefully I will find some others that I want to be involved in also. 

The final outcome of Whirly Bird

I believe it was back in June when I posted about Whirly Bird. I don't believe I shared the bottom pic before. This is where I got the idea to start a series of Whirly Bird. I had painted this cute little bird with a whirly beanie, on a 3"x 3" birch block my hubby made me. It got such a great response and everybody just fell in love, including me. He did sell, and that got me to thinking. I would like to make this little guy go on some adventures and see what I could pull off. This year is really the first time I have branched out doing kind of what I'd like to call "soft surreal" pieces. Not going from actual photos like I have always done. It makes it harder because it's all coming from your head. There are so many decisions to be made to make it believable and to get your point across.

Anyways, the top to pics are the finished product 10" X 20". I have another one on the way, it's in the beginning stages at the moment.

It's funny and weird , doing these paintings of Whirly Bird, I've come to realize a similarity to him and myself.

He's just a regular bird wanting to fly and have fun.