I haven’t used my blog in a while. When I tried to write a post a few minutes ago, I wasn’t able to access the edit function. Took me a few minutes to figure out what was going on. Hopefully that problem is resolved.
In any case, I’m going to try to start using this blog again. I keep saying that and then I don’t get around to it. Well, maybe this time!
Just a quick post to say that I started to do quite a bit of painting in late winter – mostly in watercolours. I’ve cut back on that over the springtime as I’m busy outdoors, but I did manage to pull myself together enough to do an acrylic painting that I’m submitting for the ARCAC members’ exhibit, “Wild Nature” that runs from the end of July through til some time in late August. I’m posting a photo of the painting here today. It’s entitled, “Where The Catbirds Sing”. It was inspired by some Gray Catbird activity in the lilac trees in the front yard. Two Catbirds were vigorously singing – I assume it was two males trying to out-sing each other. It was a sunny day. The lilac leaves were glowing in a certain way. I’m going to post two photos that I took on that day and used to work from in making this painting. I also incorporated a spectrogram of a recording that the BirdWeather PUC station made of the Catbirds that have been singing around the yard recently. I thought that would help to symbolically convey more of a sense of the birdsong that took place that day.
Anyhow, enough about that. Here’s the painting (above) and the 2 photos that I worked from (below).
Lovely Bev. I’ve never heard or seen Cat Birds, but I imagine they are evocative of your place.
Thank you, Owen. Catbirds are seldom seen but often heard around my place. While they are known for their ability to make a scratchy cat-meow sound, they are also wonderfully melodious when they sing. I’m lucky enough to have had them nesting in a particular spot for many years! 🙂