A Bird's Paradise

A Bird's Paradise in progress

The show in the Corrine Woodman Gallery at the Corvallis Arts Center opened yesterday.  I just got back from viewing it and love what the overhead light does to the transparencies. 

Now I am working on a birdhouse for the birdhouse-themed exhibit titled, "Where Birds Dream..." and silent auction to open at The Arts Center in Corvallis in November.  Artist from all over the valley are putting together birdhouses either functional for bird habitation or entirely fantastical and decorative for the holiday exhibit.  In addition the houses can be purchased.  Mine is decorative and is a woven transparency with feathers.  The photograph above shows the birdhouse in progress, a coffee cuff roof  with worms woven in and a felted nest with felted eggs of wool and feathers.  This is what I wrote about my house that I have titled, A Bird's Paradise                 

        

Yr Built:   2010    .44 Square Feet

1 BR/0 BA Single Family House

Move in Now!!!  A custom built single level home with Eco-friendly roof.  This rare find was designed with the discriminating egg-laying vertebrates in mind.  Open and airy single-room floor plan, bright and cheery with lots of light from the expansive windows.   Beautiful window treatments allow for maximum enjoyment of the view. Nursery ready for new young ones on the way.  Fly by necessary for full appreciation.    

Finished the Sunflower

I finished The Sunflower.  The center of the flower is woven with dried sunflower seeds.  Wool inlay is used for the the rest of the flower, stem and leaves.  The lower part is the earth and root of the plant woven with a variety of fiber.  I used a linen warp. 

Getting Ready

I am getting ready for a joint show in a small gallery in the local Arts Center.  Bonnie Wedekind Albright is the other artist in the show and she weaves with wire.  I will have several transparencies and am working on a sunflower that I hope to finish for the opening October 26, 2010.  Here is a photograph of the mock up that I use behind the weaving to keep me on course as I weave.  I better get back to work.