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EASTERN BLUEBIRDS

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Begin Again, Again and Again

 Hello.  I bought a camera.

 Olympus OMD M10 MII Mirrorless Micro 4/3 Camera on a manual 135mm lens with 2x teleconverter and Tiffen Skylight filter

Junco on Tomato Cage

Chipping Sparrow mid landing looking like popcorn

 It has been a minute since I have remembered I even had a blog. (or three, one professional, one to make side pennies and this one) If you have been notified that I have posted something, I am flattered you follow me.  I have been through a lot of life the past few years, or should I say a lot of funerals and the family that would follow this account are no longer.  I do feel the need to have somewhere to keep my hobbies on record still though.  I have not been painting this year, or last, or the year before but during this pandemic I have picked up a camera.  Here are a few photos.  I think I may use this account to "talk" to the ether as well, but I will put photos first, and then crybaby stuff after so you can read or not.  I will also put a gallery of photos on page as well so you can just go there as I update.  :)  

If you swipe my photos, just please don't sell them.  We can talk about using them, and as long as you have my permission you can use them for projects like you would on Deviant Art, but this blog is moreso just for me.

I like animals and as I stay at my parents house for various reasons, one of the reasons I stay here is because of the wildlife and the woods surrounding.  Since 2015 I have been logging the birds that visit this yard, and this year more species than ever have come.  In March I picked up a camera that works with some random lenses my Brother found a few years back and with a converter from OMD to work with OMD Micro 4/3's I was up an running, and I am not a trained photographer but with a little help from a Patreon friend and her bird photo tips I was able to get some decent shots right of the bat.

This is a Junco, there are four living here, 2 males and 2 females.  They stick to the woodpile mostly for the bugs, and this year they were eating the fire ants that took up residence by my tomato plant retaining wall, because drone emerging, flying ant emerging day is always good eating.  With ant insecticides they still have been thriving and the Juncos will eat the fresh hatched ones...so this day he was over on that wall looking for flying snacks.

I assume the sparrows were there for  the same reason, and this sparrow was jumping down from the rock above and I was experimenting with shutter speeds and lookit! I got a fun one :)  

So I will post a few more stories about pics coming up.  I may spend a week putting up photos in a page, and then come back to explain them after.  I am not a gear head, and everything I need is in the metadata on the photos so for the one person reading this if you have questions on the gear let me know or the settings,  otherwise I assume you know more than me and comments are welcome :)

also I'm lax on checking for spelling or grammer so don't judge me there.  I don't have my glasses on all the time, nerd.

Coloring Books

Stress management.  Blood pressure reducer.  Mindfulness. Never stopped coloring.  Whatever you call it personally, this is pretty much the extent of painting I have been doing. Watercolor coloring book pages.

I'm not being terribly impressively skillful or artsy or thoughtful of my color choices aside from whatever feels right for the object I'm filling in. 

I have been using this as a nighttime zone out meditation thing. :)

December: A Summary

Hello - 

Hope all is well.  Not much painting going on still.  I finished up another page in the Kirby Rosanes book "Animorphia".  I was working on some Crocheting and Knitting for the holidays for little kitties in my life, then I made a "snood" scarf/hood thing, then I made an EPIC gingerbread village though the only bit I took a photo of yet was this mini house we ate on Christmas Day.   I worked at a Greenhouse for a week and made a bunch of wreaths and table arrangements... took regular photos and artsy photos of the tree and decorations at home.  Did a photo challenge on Instagram... I knitted a star fish that I won't show you because it was practice... I made Christmas cards... I'm burnt out people!  lol.

But I do suppose I should to get to business now finding a fulltime job like a real adult and make some money to live off of.   Maybe then I can rent my own space to have a teeny art show :)  Until then, walks and applying to anything within my skillset.  :)  Enjoy the photos.

Goodbye 2015!

Two Month Hiatus!

 The painting show (of course) didn't happen.  I was given information on the particulars of the nature of the work to be shown too late.  

I am still looking for a show, or at least a space to show my work in person, so we can have the wine and cheese and grapes and chocolates etc.  Maybe I'll have to do a summer show and call it my birthday... or do a show at my Half Birthday on Jan 16th.

Still working on ideas.  I haven't been painting much. I have been coloring in what publishers are now calling ADULT coloring books... I am calling them ALL DAY coloring books because it takes a whole 8 hours to color one page as the content is so teeny. I am having fun. However with so much to do (looking for work, looking for gifts) they are much more time consuming than Garfield themed coloring books... so I may switch back to Garfield for a bit.

Everything is OK with the hiatus.  In my profession I am either working hard 12+ hour days or hardly working and then working on projects of my own.  Here is a sample of the book I am coloring in.  It's called ANIMORPHIA by KERBY ROSANES  https://www.facebook.com/Animorphia/

http://www.zifflin.com/   this link is for the publisher's information as they are great too and you can buy the book.  I think I got mine at either Barnes and Noble or Michaels.  

He's really COOOOOOOOL!

Also, Tis the season for making presents and this is one set I have been working on:

2015 Ornaments

These ornaments are medallions cut by my Dad using fallen branches.  We found them at the base of my Grandfather's favorite cluster of Birch trees at his camp in Vermont.   My Grandfather's ashes were scattered here in July 4th 2015.  The picture below are ones I made last year from what I bought at Michael's.  It was requested I make them again from Grandpa's trees so it would be more meaningful.  I don't have pictures yet of all of them from the camp branches but the one pictured ABOVE is one.

2014 Ornaments

Happy Holidays everyone, and I hope to come back sooner with something awesome.  I may do a few stories on past paintings in my galleries that have no back story yet.  

Also I shall put more on the Etsy Paintventure site soon to buy.  I will be bringing down the prices since I don't need to save them for the show anymore.  :) Talk soon.

PREPARING: TEENY ART SHOW

Teeny Art Show

Pre-sale on Paintventure's Etsy Site

~ Art will also be in the Show - 

I have been painting on and off during the past three months.  I have some pieces now that I feel are "finished".  I will show you a few so you can get excited with me! 

Click on the pictures to go to the Etsy Site for pre-sale (and to be able to zoom in) before the art show. Thanks!