Snowbird oil on birch panel 13 x 14 unframed but ready to hang $400
The conventional wisdom about still life painting is that it works best when you paint objects that have meaning for you. If that’s the case, this one fills the bill. When our son Gavin was just a little boy he dashed in one day all excited. He’d been to a neighborhood yard sale and had seen something he really wanted to buy for me. Of course he needed to get some money from me to buy it but it’s the thought that counts. This little bird–I guess it’s a dove–has been one of my treasures ever since. This is the second time I’ve used it in a still life. In this one what interested me was the way the light comes through the edges of the feathers, with the white of the bird echoed by the white of the snow outside.
