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I am working on "The Boy" again.

You may remember that I started him early in the summer and then sort of abandoned him when I lost the "feeling". He was kind of a long shot anyway, as he was never a purposeful piece and came about as a result of a series of accidents, anyway.

I had been working on a piece for a show about Oseola McCarty for a call for entry - and I had a very clear idea about what it was I wanted to do.

But then the problems started. I pieced, quilted and painted THREE backgrounds (all 65" by 40") and never actually came up with one that worked for my original concept.

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Fair warning: this is a talky-talky post, so if you have little tolerance for such things, skip to the end.

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It seems I am always thinking about time.

I used to think about time in terms of how little time I had to spend in the studio, and though I overcame my resentment at time spent away from it; I still struggled with What To Do while I was in it. The whole "make pretty, or make art?" debate consumed a large portion of my thought process, and recently, making art expressly for sale took up a lot of my studio time, much to my chagrin.

But over the past several months, I've been struggling with time in relation to my own failing health.

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When I got to this point, I thought I was done, but as I looked at it, I realized that I didn't like the total sky background. It was lifeless, and oddly drab in a way.

Unfortunate in many ways, because I've already made up ten of these backgrounds in preparation for more birds. Alas - they'll have to be used for something else. But in the meantime, this bird needed to be cut out and put on a different background.

Shall we audition some?

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"Birdman"? for WIP Wednesday...

Progress is being made, slowly but surely!

See you Friday.

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I always start with a reference photo, and I always write the photographer and ask for permission*.

In this case, the photographer did not give me permission (the first time that happened), so I am using the branch in the photo, but have put the bird in a different position - the head still in profile, but now we'll be looking at the bird from the back and to the side - rather than a straight on front view.

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As I like to say when the piece is done, "it's time for the big finish!" But, continuing from part one and part two of my "how to" - there are a few more things to do before we can call it "done".

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