Saturday, August 20, 2011

wind-up birds


These were a couple of paintings I made for the Edmonton Artwalk. I'd had the sketches sitting around for so long I finally decided to paint them. They're done with gouache with some small coloured pencil touch-ups, all on watercolour paper. There's still a couple more hanging around here half finished, so there may be more wind-up birds in the future.

Thanks to everyone who came out to the Artwalk, I had an amazing time! There were even some people who knew me solely from this blog, which was pretty cool. It was great talking to everyone, and hopefully I'll be able to make it out again next year.

3 thoughts:

Johnny said...

Nice work!

Jean Fhilippe said...

wooooshhh//

Ash! these look great! It's refreshing to see some some new work and to be these beautiful winding birds! Haha they're just so darn cute too. I wish I knew their names properly, but I do know I became instantly fond of the second one, he's such a scoopable fellow.

You know what would be brilliant, to see these in sculpture in the future. No pressure, just quietly provoking.

btw, Alban has an eye for great photos and it's diving my tumblr dashboard insane. I feel like I must hearts them all. Ah, see what I did there? I know you caught that reference.

Carol said...

My first time here - and those little guys are enough to make me fall in love with your work.