Let's Give Them Something to Crow About

"Let's Give Them Something to Crow About" - acrylic on cradled wood panel, 10" in diameter.  A reserve piece for the Sept 5-6 event at Artistic Souls Gallery.

If ever you might wonder
what it’s like to be a crow
It’s something like a unicorn
but not quite as slow

The crow flies fast
and straight and true
across the darkened sky
Making haste when haste needs made
(a unicorn can’t fly)

But some crows also have a horn
upon their feathered heads
held there quite securely
with tiny golden threads

Can you guess what they use it for?
Not magic, no such thing
it’s a little sparkle holder
just in case they find a ring.

Let's Give Them Something to Crow About

Well, you see what's happening over here, don't you?  It's all stuff and nonsense now!  At least in half of the studio.  The other half has a large figure in process, with about 70 of the 80 million requisite layers done.

There is something deeply satisfying about this teeter-totter between the whimsical and the serious.  And sometimes one flows into the other - like the color palette of this crow, which was fully stolen from the figurative piece.  Which was, in turn, swiped from a photograph.

​ So I suppose the lesson here is this:  play hard, think hard, steal colors from everywhere.  And when in doubt, put a bird on it. :)