Attraction - Acrylic Hummingbird Quadtych Painting

"Attraction" is a new acrylic quadtych on gallery canvas that just came off my easel last week. I've actually been wanting to paint this for quite some time, a couple of years actually.

It all started one spring when I went to the nursery to get the annuals for my back porch. I have a very sunny location in the backyard so I love geraniums for my pots out there as they are so hardy, colorful and sun & heat tolerant.

I had always gotten zonal gernaiums but this particular year, I saw cascade geraniums and thought for my hanging pots at least, they would be perfect. What I didn't realize was, cascade geraniums attract..............

HUMMINGBIRDS!!!! Imagine my happy surprise at this discovery.

So now each summer, cascade geraniums fill my hanging pots out back and I am treated to the site of hummingbirds fluttering around on a daily basis.

This painting has already flown off to it's new home....I hope it will be enjoyed each day, for a long time to come. www.artfulcreations.etsy.com

Fluttering Out Of My Studio.......

"Flutter" has just lifted its wings and flown from my studio. I love watching Hummingbirds in my garden each year, they seem especially drawn to my Cascade Geraniums, which I have hanging right outside my back door.

These tiny, quick moving and very graceful birds are amazing to watch and I knew I wanted to create a painting to capture the delicacy of their movements.

Flutter is a contemporary garden-scape painted on 1 1/2" deep gallery wrapped canvas.

Each canvas panel measures 6" x 8" for a total size of 8" h x 18" w. I decided to go with a black background to highlight the white/gray flowers and the Hummingbird in its full color, for what I hope lends itself to a contemporary feel.

I hope perhaps that this painting might inspire everyone to look for Hummingbirds in their own garden each year. Enjoy!!!! This acrylic painting is available in my ETSY shop:

www.artfulcreations.etsy.com

Nectar.....Fresh From The Studio

A week ago I just finished a new acrylic painting, "Nectar" on 2 -1 1/2" deep gallery canvases.

Nectar has a mystical and I think, magical deep blue background.

The painting of course would not be complete without the silhouette hummingbird.

Each canvas panel measures 11" x 14" for a total size of 14" x 22"". The sides are painted a solid black to coordinate nicely with the painting and go easily with any decor. This contemporary painting was so much fun to create....I plan to work on more in the future.

I'm in the tedious process right now of transferring all my fine art and pendants over to my new Ruby Lane shop: www.rubylane.com/shops/artfulcreations . You can find Nectar in my new shop as well as some of my other work. Once the transfer is complete, I'll be selling paintings and pendants solely from that site and will be linking directly there from my website. In the mean time, yet another contemporary hummingbird painting is getting ready to fly out of the studio...I'll try to show that piece next time.