Bird series

Some ideas combining watercolor and acrilic.

Recently I've been getting this idea to have an informal exhibition of my work at the end of the summer. So, I've been coming up with some ideas for a painting series. I'm trying to find a theme, like birds, or the woods, something to do with nature because it's so close to my heart. Since I grew up with my dad teaching everything he knew about wildlife, especially birds and of course walking in the woods, I want to recapture those feelings. Maybe I'm yearning for more nature in my life because I've been living in Chicago. There is nature here, but it's still tamed, fenced off or resticted. Some of my paintings will capture that feeling of watching nature from far way, like driving in a car and watching a grove of trees go by slowly in the distance. They will be landscapes, but a little different, more isolated I think.

Here are a couple of sample sketches of ideas for some of my paintings. I will have to get back into oils again.