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.

Ganesh Valentine

I left the front pretty much as is (see previous post). This is the inside of the Ganesh valentine, along with a detail. My self imposed Sunday deadline means I have to finish and post the valentine on Monday, and that's a good thing because although there's more I could do here, I think it's more important right now to move through ideas quickly. I've already got an idea for this weeks valentine, it uses song lyrics from a children's song called "Little Bird." Stay tuned!