The Rare Morning Whipporwillow and Even More Deer.

She's carrying the forest on her back.  She's also on a tightrope, a recurring theme in my paintings lately.  Now I'm wondering why.  Its almost like analyzing your dream...what does this mean?  (Insert theme music from The Twilight Zone here.)

Her antlers are turning into trees.

She was painted at the beginning of this evening's solar eclipse.  (Continue on with the Twilight Zone music)

Doe a deer.  This was painted on a up-cycled canvas.  My sweet friend scored them at the weirdest store in Jackson for some crazy low price like fity cent each.

 Indeed we live in a time where most -or just some- of us are no longer able to actually say the words "fifty cents" they way we once did way back in earlier times.



On my way downstairs the light from the eclipsed-Sun had my back.

The Twilight Zone music in your head should be very loud at this point.

Hi!

Ok enought with the background music.  We're moving on to much more important matters.  My dad, at certain times, makes up funny bird names.  He will look at you very seriously and say "see that bird?  That's a _______."  I'm wondering if this is hereditary because I so want to play this twisted game too.  I think he likes tricking people, and the more outrageous the name the better it makes him feel that he pulled one over on some poor sap.  Hey, is that a bird name???  (Somepor Sap)!!  I might be doing it!

From here on out this might be my new mission in life, whacky bird names.  I will be sure to post more on this phenomenon.  But first I now have to call my father and ask him what that one bird was ?  I started a list once.  Hummmm. I need that list so I can paint all his imaginary birds.

This Morning Whipporwillow is a practice bird.  It started off as something entirely different than a bird but then it became the rare Morning Whipporwillow because it was a total fail at that other thing it was supposed to be and it was a semi-successful Morning Whipporwillow.  Semi-successful.

I'll keep practicing this unusual artform.

More Deer.

These are small, maybe 5x5 inches.

I couldn't stop painting deer today.

Then I saw this heart "track" in my yard and I'm imagining its a deer track.

I wonder what tomorrow's subject will be??!?  I just hope its not Bigfoot.

Morning Deer.

5:30 a.m. playing with watercolours.  That's a magic hour.

I'm always grateful when I don't sleep right through it.

Its splendid outside today.  I have the studio windows wide open and the sun and the wind are coming inside.  I can see my ponies grazing on habit grass out in the field.

Habit grass, that's the invisible pasture grass that isn't really there.  It hasn't started growing and greening yet.  But they pretend its there and that they're eating it.  Habit.

The habit of peeling my butt out of bed at 5 a.m. to paint is working for me. Watercolour before coffee.

The Starbrick Report. Feb. 2017.

Today we hung the painter's show.  It was tricky, all the work wasn't in yet so I was forced to improvise.

I shot this from an angle so you could see inside the wax to the fifth dimension.

Watercolor.

This.  This is our showstopper!  Its big and its gorgeous.  Painted by Connaught Cullen right here in Athens County.  Just wait 'til you see it in person.

And this sweet portrait was painted by our own Elizabeth.

Cat paintings and dogs as well.

Goat-ponies too!  And a colorful local landscape.

Jeff goes wild.

So wild in fact that he brought in paintings on paper.  Very affordable, they're the perfect POC for your wall.

We can't get enough of these.  The construction site photos rule the roost.

Who knew construction sites could be so wonderful?

See, wonderful.

Construction site photographer, adored by all.

And these babies are flying out the door because everybody needs one, everybody.

Skeleton key madness.

Why have a regular 'ol cheese board when you can have THIS?

And it gets even crazier...

and crazier.

Glass pendants.  Really pretty and super-affordable.

Cameos.

Beadwork.

The jewelry case is nice and full.

The mini-quilts are here!  Stop in and choose one before the Dairy Barn quilt-show tourists get them first.

Monsters

lurking around.

Mixed media cards.

I can not even tell you how stylish I feel when I put on one of Judy's hats.  It's the answer to looking chic effortlessly.

Dangling capiz shell art.

We are well-stocked.

Look at that luscious plate peeking through.  It's so pretty I want to cry.

Ceramics central.

Toss your salad in this bad boy.

Rene is a mad scientist in her studio.  She brought in a new batch of her image-transfer ceramics, each one cooler than the last.

This is wood and it is so stinkin' lovely.  I'll let you come in yourself and see what it is.

The texture of these pots makes me happy.  I want to fill them with my mom's pretzel cookies.

These barstools are fascinating and they immediately make you hip if you include them in your home decor.  They come in every color of the rainbow and there's lazy susan's and trivets too.

Reduce.  Reuse.  Recycle.

Isn't this ice-cream table and chairs set darling.  The sweet homespun hotpads remind me of the quilt purse I had in the fifth grade.  I loved that thing with all my heart.

There is a huge mound of hand-woven rugs, so many that you could sleep on them comfortably.

More lurking monsters.

Enough tiaras for every single princess in the land-

each one absolutely fabulous.

Cigar-box guitars.  Outstanding entertainment.

Here's those trivets I was talking about.

Coloring books.  Oh, there's a coloring group in the back room on some Sundays. I hear they get pretty wild.

This is a ceramic birdhouse mansion.  I'd live there if I was a bird.

Ceramic guy.

The back room smells so good thanks to JoAnna.

Oil paintings of area buildings and homes.

This is such beautiful wood.  Its the base to a magic lamp.

Colorful dangling pretties too.  There's so much to see at Starbrick Gallery on the Historic Square in beautiful downtown Nelsonville.  And it changes daily, new art arrives all the time.  Make sure to stop in on Final Friday, have a glass of wine with your favorite artist and talk about art, not politics.  It'll be beautiful.