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| "Hunting Moon, Great Horned Owl" - Serigraph |
Winter really isn't officially here for another week or so but we've been deep into it now for the past three at least! About 14" of snow on the ground here so far, and snowing out the studio window right now as I type!
The serigraph "Hunting Moon - Great Horned Owl" represents this winter well so far - these owls have been looking for rabbits here on the acreage many predawn mornings lately!
"Autumn Along the Kadunce" - Oil Painting
I've been painting small the past few weeks...I find I am so much better at keeping my attention span focused doing smaller paintings these days, rather than dragging out weeks for larger canvases. Besides - many folks find the smaller paintings and drawings easier to find spots for on their walls! There is something about these small jewels that really grab you and pull you in closer. I chose my subjects by what has been burning a space in the back of my mind for...in some cases - years! The two above paintings are actual locations along the Lake Superior Hiking Trail system that my wife Georgie and I hiked when we used to spend time at a small cabin we built on the north shore of Lake Superior over 40 years ago. I really loved the Kadunce and the Woods Creek Trail...the Kadunce could be very dramatic; an all up hill trek with so many cool overlooks and narrow canyon walls. One really dry season we hiked the river's canyon from it's top end reaches, down to Lake Superior. There were no trails, we walked the river's bed and waded the shallow rapids...often had to crawl down the now nearly dry falls and dropping rapids; handing down my camera gear and tripod to one another as we went. A rugged wonderland up close and personal! The painting above is rather bittersweet as it was our last visit to the Kadunce 8 years ago during the fall. The night before, a damaging windstorm had hit portions of the shore and when we arrived at the Kadunce trail entrance, we found many, many large trees has blown down, burying most of the trail and accesses to it. We climbed over, under and around as much as we could until we had to finally give up, it was impassible for the most part...but we were able to access the river in 2-3 spots for familiar views that I still cherish...we may never see our old friend again and it meant a lot to still say goodbye. (Photograph of the Kadunce River from many years past!) The Woods Creek painting was from memories of hiking that part of the Superior Hiking Trail from back in the 90's. I remember photographing this neat little cedar log dam and having a large Basset Hound come down from the trail and check me out! It was BIG!!! Two ladies up on the path above the creek were walking their dogs and apparently let them off their leashes so they could stretch their legs. Very beautiful and friendly dogs. This stretch of the trail there was a pleasure to hike. The small placid pool created below the cedar log just stuck with me...visions of Brookies were also playing with my imagination!
I haven't drawn or painted my favorite prairie wildflowers for a while and this fall was really a banner year for the asters here...the largest and showiest being the New England Asters. This was a fun small study celebrating this fall's pasture bounty! I really love the prairie pastures here at the studio and would have to live to be a 100+ to cover even a portion of our beautiful native prairie plants and wildlife here. Never tire of the beauty here around us - Monarch Butterflies here in the pasture this summer and fall...nectaring on the New England Asters - fueling up for their trek south to Mexico for the winter ahead!
With the holiday season we're offering new works to clients...the small paintings just finished will hopefully find homes and many more works here in the studio as well! Along with these come some customer requests and one I just finished for a bird art collector here, is another of my life-size bird portraits - this one a Cedar Waxwing! Gorgeous little birds that we cherish anytime they show up on one or more of our berry bearing trees or bushes here! And we do have other life-size bird portraits available for your holiday giving or even your own personal collection! If any artworks here in this newsletter, or on the current works or prints pages of my website, strike your fancy, just contact me or purchase from the page via the shopping cart available there ("add to cart" link). (Artworks available are all listed under the header "WORKS"...under that header, two sections have artwork for sale - "Current Works" and "Studio Printmaking".) Linked here - https://www.morrisons-studio.com/works For prints or photographs, my Fine Art America (pixels.com) pages present both my available Photography and Artwork (Paintings and Drawings) - all available in many forms of prints and merchandise...everything from posters, prints, canvases, fabrics, bags, puzzles, throw pillows, iPhone cases, cups...ya, you name it! Linked here - https://bruce-morrison.pixels.com/ This is where I now refer clients for prints or reproductions of my work. I have ordered many items from FAA (Fine Art America) for different galleries and venues, and have found FAA's offering to be very satisfactory! After more than a couple of decades of printing my works for the purposes of prints and canvas sales, I have decided to give this process over to the Fine Art America "Print on Demand" (POD) service they offer...I have actually been represented by FAA for nearly 20 years, and would recommend them to anyone wanting a print or canvas or whatever item of my Artwork and Photography! My Studio web site morrisons-studio.com has been my Studio web site for over 2 decades now and will remain so into the future. It is through my Studio web site that I can introduce new and past works, discuss how I work and my subject matter, and make my original paintings and other original artwork available to my clients. It is also the platform from which I will continue to offer you a more personal insight to my work here in my Blog!
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Until next time - be good to one another, we're all in this together!
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