Raptors And Art week, our 22nd at the Missoula Art Museum, me and Bev Beck Glueckert. Sib, Sonora and Wes falcons posing day one, then owls Simon, Portia and Little Billie on Tuesday, sketching sessions. Now, life-size paper mache sculptures, including 5 Great Horned, 3 Barred, 1 Saw-whet, 2 eagles, 1 kestrel, and 1 flamingo (that counts!) Plus 1 Zombie and 1 Elephant Owl.
In the living room! My welded steel Peregrine sculpture and Nico heading for the kitchen.
Thanks Cindy Knutsen for the big printing press, now installed upstairs and my trial run of a Rough-legged Hawk drypoint etching. Donated by Cindy and bought some parts, now ready to rock and roll, 19 inches across instead of the little one for 30 years, 12 inches!
Almost every year Tom's little bridge over the slough has started floating, held tight with ropes and not washing away. Well, thank you Pat Johnson for installing more cinder blocks to keep it above the water. This one with the dogs, just inches from floating. Thanks Pat and a river walk every day.
We love Metcalf Wildlife Refuge, especially Mose and Nico. Right down the road!
Not this! But a big drypoint of a female hawk on a fence post, what fun! Then on to the new printing press up over the garage. First one of this size for me. I am excited.
Just finished this etching, another experiment with tools and ink. "Great Gray" is from a trip I took with photographer/pal Keith Fialcowitz in June 2011. We met up with zoologist Jack Kirkley and visited a Great Gray Owl family. Drypoint etching, 11" x 10" with printing inks, gouache, and brush pens and pencils. It brings back wonderful memories. Check out April 22nd Blog!
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