Comments on: Latest Sale, Mrs. Wilson’s Warbler!

By: Mary McAndrew

Mary McAndrew — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:50:43 +0000

Hi Carol, thanks for stopping by, yes, I do love selling my work though there are some that I will never part with. I’d like to do some birds using oil paint, which is something I haven’t tried yet, I mostly use them for landscapes and my Goddess paintings. I can’t wait to do some more birds! I also have some butterflies planned in the future that should be fun.

By: Mary McAndrew

Mary McAndrew — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:32:53 +0000

Hi Camulus, thanks for the compliment. I love looking at the water-droplets on the birds back, that was the part that fascinated me about doing this painting. And I am going to start putting more pictures of my paintings in their frames and perhaps next to something to show the relative size because on a webpage with just the image, you don’t get the ‘real’ perspective of size. Thanks for dropping in again, how’s the summer been over in England?

By: Carol Creech

Carol Creech — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:34:44 +0000

Congratulations, Mary! That’s so exciting to have sold a painting. And what a beautiful one, at that. I have never used oil pastels, but I can imagine it is very difficult to get the detail that you did. Just beautiful.
Carol

By: camulus

camulus — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:08:07 +0000

Gosh! that is a fine picture, no wonder you didn’t want to part with it Mary. Its amazing how you captured those water droplets using only soft pastel. It’s also a lot bigger than I would have thought, when you see it in the picture with Shirley. The image reminds me so much of a little bird that came for a a drink and a wash, in the bird bath of my rockery garden on a regular basis.