...tonight I worked on the pieces for the Art Nouveau show that is fast approaching.  I feel like I have got a good start but still a long way to go.  I have little wooden plaques, some 8x10 canvases...all with some scrap of paint on them, even if it just the background color.  Hey....gotta start somewhere, right?  Still working with the Hedwig/owl inspiration…really having some fun with this theme…

About an hour or so into painting I picked up one of the plaques that I had painted with a coat of blue and quickly painted the simplified owl shape...but then quickly put down my brush to pick up a pencil….seemed only fitting that I elaborate on the branch…before I knew it, one of my trees had creeped into this small work…and then I started to think, yeah, that makes sense. Owls live in trees…yep.

So I unwrapped my new blank canvas and just started sketching…owl shape, check.  Crazy, curvilinear lines…check.  After going over the pencil lines quickly with black paint…ready.  This will be the canvas that I paint at the live-art event.

So that is where I am as of this evening.  Several plaques and small canvases in progress…three trays of ornaments not even opened and two packs of square canvases that need to be addressed.