Drawing - Tree Swallow Number Two

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Tree Swallow - Graphite on Paper
Copyright 2011, Nicole MacPherson

Wow, this has been a long time coming!  I actually started a few drawings since finishing the last one, but this is the first one done!

This little guy was stretching and preening, not paying any attention to me at all.  I liked this pose because it reminded me of the moment - that stretching and preening.  It wasn't until I was well into the drawing that I noticed it was actually a pretty funny pose!  What's he saying?  "It's thaddaway!" or maybe shilling for a deodorant commercial - "no white marks"! 

My dear swallow friend, you have nothing but white marks! 

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Awesome Artist

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I have no new drawings to share, but don't want to neglect the blog!

So here's a link to an awesome artist. The lines and colors blog is awesome in its own right too!

Brian Dettmer on the lines and colors blog. Brian uses books to make three dimensional sculptures, page by page. Gorgeous!
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ACEOs ready!

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Well that took a while!  Sorry about the lack of updates!

If you're interested in an ACEO, they're $4 each, postage worldwide included. 

No cart or such functions yet, email me if you're interested, or paypal to nicolemacp@shaw.ca .

Nineteen are available (all shown below), and each will be limited to 250 total.    

As an introductory special, you can buy all nineteen for $65.00 

(use either Canadian or US currency)

Click on the picture below to take a look at, or read about, any of them!

   

  

  

       

    

   

Please note that these cards are hand cut.  None are out by more than 1 mm, but please be aware that they won't be perfectly square. 

This is how a stack of them looks. 

Thanks!

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ACEOs

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Well, I had pretty big plans for making prints available for sale, but looks like that's not going to happen right now.

But I do have the supplies and the capability to make art cards - ACEOs - those little 2.5" x 3.5" cards on bristol paper.

I'll probably limit the number, and am thinking about hand-coloring a portion of the run, probably in colored pencil.

Looks like I left it pretty late to have these intended as Christmas presents - it's only a few days until the "mail before" day!

I'll post again when I get it worked out, but if you're interested, feel free to email me at pterelas at gmail dot com.

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Drawing - Yellow Headed Blackbird

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Yellow-Headed Blackbird - Graphite on Paper

Copyright 2010, Nicole MacPherson

Yellow-Headed Blackbirds are impressive looking birds!  They are lousy songsters though!  But the males put on wonderful displays, easily compensating for any musical shortcomings.  I've found them to be harder to photograph than the Red-Winged Blackbirds.  Less common in general, and a bit more suspicious of humans.  The Yellows are also more social, often foraging in groups. 

This was my first attempt at a real background.  I found it harder than I expected.  Birds are fun to draw, grass and reeds are not! 

As I've mentioned on this blog before, I don't use different kinds of pencils.  But I think I might have to change that.  Had to go over some parts a LOT to get them dark enough.  This ended up warping the paper.  It was even visible when scanned, and the paper underneath this one has a big, bird-shaped impression on it!  Finished this guy up on the 21st, but he's been sitting beneath heavy stuff since that time, trying to get the paper to flatten! 

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