With the new structure up against our fence/enclosures we were forced to move half the birds, including the two Peregrines. The new Falconhouse is cooking in these summer temperatures so forced to make some modifications. First, shade cloth and insulation across the inner roof, fans running all day and even planting relocated trees in the front for shade. Shade? So difficult.
It is always a treat trying to figure out how to color that first run print, and what you can't hear here is the jazz on the stereo!
Just made this drypoint etching, and on the "new" printing press upstairs. "Rough-leg" and printing inks, gouache, pencils 11" x 13". Tried a little background texture with steel brushes, always want to experiment.
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.
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