There's a traditional children's song with haunting lyrics: Little bird, little bird, fly through my window as sung by Elizabeth Mitchell. That song is the inspiration for this valentine. The lyrics will go on the inside. I was originally going to cut out a window so that you saw the bird through the window, but I think that would work better with a collage bird and curtains, I'm not really a watercolorist by any measure. Still, this painted bird was inspired by another painted bird in a book called Birds by Kevin Henkes and illustrated by Laura Dronzek. A dose of gratitude to all the artists living and dead whose work inspires and leads to (we hope) some further insight.

These curtains are pretty flat, I haven't studied the effects of light on draped fabric enough.