Pheasant Series of 3

I worked up a series depicting Pheasant behaviour on the prairie during the spring.  The work is mixed-media...using a method for transferring images similar to developing film.  The chemicals involved and techniques are from Dass...and the results are amazing.  I use Arches 88 paper for the substrate...my photography...and then I enhance the whole picture using Golden acrylic products.
The first in the series is "The Stand-off"
The second is the dance "Cock-fight"
The third is "Stands Alone"

The colors for their feathers is amazing this time of year.

I have them offered on Etsy.

They would make an awesome addition to any Hunting Lodge...or any decor for that matter..or be perfect for Fathers day.

New Glass Project

Sept 6th saw the day the town merchants as well as other participants had been working towards......Old Fashioned Saturday.

With it's success and finish we are now preparing for hunting season.

Don't get all turned off.

Living in the rural mid-west times are tough. This is a farming community. No big factory jobs. Not a lot of people, and few jobs to begin with.

Spending visitors to our area, are what we live off for a whole year. Until their season comes forth again.

Hunting and fishing and camping surmise a big part of our survival.

So, that explained...hunting season is nearing and I am preparing the items that the fellas like to take back with them as gifts, or just to be reminded of their times had here.

The glass is almost cut for the new project, next I grind the glass, then foil, then solder it together.

This project is rigged up much like a mobile. There is a counter weight, will be a sprig of wheat, and it hangs below the bird. This will catch a breeze and set the bird into motion.

The wings will move.

It is called the Flying Series...and this model is a Pheasant.

Here the glass is laid out on my pattern...