Land of the Living

Am finally now just starting to feel a whole lot better after nearly 4 weeks of being down with a bad cold or possibly whooping cough. The weather has shifted away from cold rain and wind to more mild days with sun and up to 68 degrees though we are still having pretty cold nights - which is unseasonable for us. But then the seasons are doing their own thing these days. It has certainly brought out the tourists.

Now I'm raring to go and have already started producing some great new work for my upcoming Featured Artist show in June at Trails End Gallery in Gearhart. I'll be doing a demo there during my 3-6pm artist reception on Saturday June 2nd, and I'll be hanging a lot of encaustic work. I will also have a catalog for the 2011 Encaustic Masters Show of which I was one of the artists showing some of the finest encaustics work being produced so ask to see it for inspiration and all the varied ways that this medium is being used. All of the artists at Trails End Gallery really pull out the stops for the summer months when traffic through the gallery is high and the prices are reasonable for such talented artists so stop by frequently and see the varied and interesting work.

All of a sudden 3 species of birds are really flocking here and they always seem to arrive at the same time - hummingbirds, gold finches and bald eagles. Below is a picture I took last year of the arrival of the gold finches. We don't actually need to put up feeders for them since there appears to be plenty of food for them but it does lure them closer for some nice photo's! They like the thistle seeds but the second picture has them sitting on top of the hummingbird feeder. The background is Willipa Bay with the tide out. We do get lots of flocking sea birds - lots of various sand pipers doing their lovely, fascinating flocking behavior as the tides come in each day though that is hard to see with a camera.

Will be adding a few teaser photographs of wax work I'm doing but will be saving most of it for the show, so you have to come and see! Also, I will be entering 3 new pieces for the 2012 EncaustiCon -International Juried Exhibition to be held this year in San Antonio, Texas.