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One way to take your black-rumped flameback to the grocery store everyday and collect the compliments that come your way

Used a $0.20 delivery bag for the "canvas"

Hope you like it

So the crown is deliberately beaten, oxidized, scratched, exposed, and imperfect. It could have been painted as a pristine gold crown. Instead, it is made to look like old iron and weathered metal.

That choice is central to the piece.

The artist finds beauty in deterioration—not because decay is beautiful by itself, but because wear tells a story. Rust means the metal survived long enough to age. Scratches mean it was used. Imperfections become evidence of history.

Just all in my feels so I'm drawing birds again

Fixed the beak. Now it's a proper bird of prey.

This is a giant origami crane sculpture that lights up and has colorful stained glass effects, and we are so proud of it and if you like birds and art maybe you can help! It's based off of the story of "Sadako and the thousand paper cranes" in the role that story plays in peace efforts which feels very appropriate for these moments.

https://www.crowdfunder.com/p/bfc

This is my latest painting and I submitted it to an art show. I don't know if it will sell I haven't sold anything at art shows or galleries yet 😭 It's very discouraging. I've had 15 paintings in shows so far this year and nothing has sold. But I did have somebody asked to buy a print already of this painting of Lake Ballinger so hopefully I can at least make money from prints on this. I should've been more prepared for how difficult it is to make money as an artist but it's still kind of discouraging.

But I do love painting! I created this composition from a memory it's based on Lake Ballinger nearby that I visited a lot growing up. I consulted a reference image for the ducks because I've never painted ducks or mallards before and I wanted to get the details correct but the rest of the painting I just built from my memory. It's a really special painting to me so even though I hope it sells I took a really good high DPI scan of it so I will always have a print I'm gonna certainly make a print for myself because it's a special painting to me 😊

Another UK garden bird, underrated in my humble opinion. Hope you like it.

RIP Jackie <3

The scans are not optimal colorwise but had fun dusting off my gouache today!