Birds of Repurposed Wood and PPF

Happy Friday 

come visit all the artistic people

 and see what creative works of art are happening this week 

at the Paint Party Friday link

In The Works :

I have some cute owls

 that are  filled with LOVE

I have mislaid my carving tool bag and so

I grabbed the OLD OLD dremmel tool

and will track down the carving tools later

 I actually used my hubby's scroll saw to cut this shape out 

all by myself for the first time. 

 When he saw I did it he just said, " You better be careful"

like I would probably cut my finger off or something.

this is as far as I am right now

so far the design is just pencil lines

I will add texture with modeling paste

 and color with acrylic paint

eyes and beak will be made of clay and glued on

These little owls hopefully will end up

as a wall plaque.

Do you notice the

 Valentine - Love theme ?

Can I WOW You? Maybe

Wise Old Screech Owl 

Here is my "Bark Art" that I have been having fun with

 and will show locally at the open studio days at my studio building. 

 We are known as The Loveland Artist Studios on Main.  

That is Main Street if your wondering. 

 Our little towne is small

 but what they call a bedroom city for Cincinnati, 

which isn't far away. 

 Lots of young families and old timers 

that have lived here all their life and love it in Loveland.  

We are a growing hotbed of artists.

 Loveland celebrates our creativity 

during a big art fair in our town park 

called Nesbit Park,

 right along the Little Miami River 

and the famous Loveland Bike Trail.  

It is always held in September.

    

This is a one by five cedar rough cut board

 an owl shape loosely drawn on

this is my owl cardboard cut out I use

This is some of the tree bark 

I found in the woods
It has been dried 

and coated with wood glue 

on the back for strength.

a view of some of the birds

This is a smaller piece of bark 

that I will use as a base
 because it is flat on the bottom 

and otherwise not too great looking

Now I " Liquid Nails"

 glue it together

  to get a stable,  

pretty, interesting bark  

for adding anything to now.

I can add a clay flower 

and one of my little wooden painted 

Hummingbirds

These are a cute pair of gold-finch 
and some purple pansies.

Thanks for checking out the "Bark Art"

  come back soon Nature Lovers

KAT

Bark Art is not Fine Art

Hello,
we did not get any new snow( few flurries this morning) mostly today it is very windy and the temps are dropping into the 20s. The ice is treacherous...lots of power outages just north of us more in the rural farm areas. I think the cold air is blowing right in through my cheap windows and doors! I feel drafts everywhere in this house today!

So here is my "Bark- Art" my own little invention. although I am sure someone else has done similar stuff. I was wandering down the paths through the St Columban woods and found lots of old pieces of bark that had fallen off the big old trees. I gathered some up, dried it out in the sun then baked it in the oven also. I coat it with wood glue and strengthen it on the back. I love the natural textures and the jagged shapes. I put some hummingbirds and clay flowers on some and different owls peeking out from behind some more. It's evolving as I go along. I am running out of bark now so I have to go hunt up some more.

I put some of these on my ETSY shop at dblrainbow.etsy.com

If you know any bark lovers send them to my shop! :] Please

Oh yea, Second Saturday open house event is coming up. I made a sign with my "ART-ist" name on it...I made it from an old roof slate tile I got in Florida. and I used clay to make letters and a flower and cemented that on,

then I added a hummingbird...My latest bird creation. I really want Spring to come EARLY How about YOU?