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<\/a>Detail from the beginning of a 9-foot painting of owls and their prey.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
This is an early sketch for the finished painting, which featured owls and their prey catching sight of each other. At the time, I hadn’t planned to paint another owl, but then an idea started rolling around in my brain, an owl dancing.<\/p>\n
<\/a>A painting and poem from our Redbubble.com shop.<\/p><\/div>\n
When i finished the painting, the poem came into my head while I was looking at it. I think most of us feel we have a secret self, and that self has the potential to do things very different from the things others expect.<\/p>\n
So that led to an image of that same owl, about to take flight.<\/p>\n
<\/a>The moment just before takeoff. Ready to fly, but not yet in the air.<\/p><\/div>\n
In the end, I liked the idea enough to create the full painting in color, that moment just before vaulting into the sky, one last look back before launching.<\/p>\n
<\/a>The first in a trio of planned paintings featuring owls, here an owl pauses before taking flight.<\/p><\/div>\n
Each owl informed the next. Now The Night Watch is set to be in a show, and over the summer I’ll complete the series. It’ll be interesting to see where my owls are by the time I complete the last one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Process is interesting to me — how someone makes a thing. I’m a sucker for factory tours (Jelly Belly in Fairfield, CA and the Budweiser plant nearby have fun tours), or watching someone create. The latest animal painting, “The Night … Continue reading