A Tiny Bee Project #7- Speckle

Happy Thursday! This week's A Tiny Bee's project was "speckle" and I have always thought speckled is such a pretty word . It's sort of funny that words can be pretty or maybe even delightful or even bring a little sparkle of joy, that a word can convey a feeling versus the meaning.   I think what's sort of special about this word is that something speckle-y is usually involving polka dots and my mind immediately goes to a bird which bird eggs are usually have some sort of speckles and they are usually pretty adorable little eggs that are tucked deep into a nest.   So I painted this lovely fat sparrow which is one of my favorite birds.  Do you ever watch the tv show Portlandia? If you haven't seen it- it's a tv show based upon where I live because Portland is a pretty unusual place.. a special place but lots of strange and unique.  I adore the show and have had my artwork in it the last couple of seasons, which is sort of crazy to think about.  Anyway, the whole point of the show is that it pokes fun of Portland and one of the big jokes from season 1 is that all Portland artists make art that involves birds.  The episode was called "Put a Bird on it."  Well guess what? I was totally one of those artists. lol. So for a long time I didn't paint any birds because everyone was painting birds and I guess I didn't want my work to be a joke and why do I have to make something everyone else is making. and I moved on from painting animals and birds and got into painting other things which I think was sort of a good thing... but I did love making this bird and animals have been showing up in my sketchbook again.

Do you ever move on from something and then somehow find your way back to it? It seems like that has been happening a lot lately in my work. 

Next weeks assignment is "Wave". :) How ever you want to interpret it.

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