ACEOs ready!

.

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!

.

ACEOs

.

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.

.

Drawing - Yellow Headed Blackbird

.

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! 

.

Drawing - Gray Catbird

.

Gray Catbird - Graphite on Paper

Copyright 2010, Nicole MacPherson

The first and only Catbird I've seen was in my yard.  I love it when a life bird is also a yard bird! 

He (?) actually hung around for three days last May, and was most impressed by the oranges we had put out for the orioles.  Sad to say, this year was catbird-less.  Actually, it was also oriole-less.  We had a very early, very warm spring, so maybe they had plenty of natural food and didn't need to lower themselves to handout from needy humans!

Only two weeks since the last drawing!  Wonder how many more I need before I can call it bein' on a roll!

.

This is cool, check it out!

.

I always enjoy looking at the work of other artists.  Sometimes it gives me ideas, and sometimes it's just awe inspiring.  I'm attracted to a lot of different types of art, even though the art I do has a much narrower focus. 

Elza Kolesnikova is a watercolor artist, painting landscapes on glass. They're quite beautifully done!

.