I am too cheap, oh I mean frugal, to get an odd sized artwork properly framed by a professional. Or maybe just to lazy to take it in & choose a frame!

This is piece that took many hours & days of work (and re-work). I found a rather junky but real wood frame that is larger than the board, but proportionately so… Now I can hang this work, and I think it looks fairly respectable. But it is not well protected, since the artwork is flush with the outer surface of the frame (no glass of course). So this leaves my work very vulnerable to damage.

I really do love it! So much fun making … things!  I just got in a little shopping therapy too:  I am buying various tiny LED “fairy” light strings for my latest projects, also clear & translucent inkjet meda: adhesive & plain.

Here are photos of the “rock cave” translucent “tower” with the LEDs inside, and using my magical nighttime hummingbird print as a backdrop:

Loving working with light & translucency: so fun, so tricky !

I have “assembled” & framed a larger version of the bird nest piece that I have been working on for quite awhile. This version has a background of tree branches drawn in two layers:  first on the matboard that the other parts are mounted, but also on an overlay of translucent vellum (also behind the birds, which are raised up on another layer of matboard).

The bird sketch was done last night, after seeing the current exhibition at SAM, which is Modernism in the Pacific Northwest: the Mythic & the Mystical. This features Mark Tobey & Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan, & Guy Anderson.

A fine show, and of course Morris Graves’ birds always catch my eye.