A squirrel that lives just feet away in his squirrel condo (tree) with his relatives (some baby squirrels were born up in that tree last spring and have made nests of their own: 3 nests in all), has taken to my porch for stashing food. I live in a Victorian house with lots of porch Victorian embellishment: plenty of places for food storage and hiding when the rest of the environs are frozen and snowy.

This year he has taken to climbing on my door wreath. I thought that he was always hanging from my wreath to grab things in there for his nest (for instance, he likes bits of summer porch furniture, roots of flowers from the flower boxes, chewed off broom sweeps, ripped up cardboard boxes and those styrofoam peanuts for his nest). When I hear him out there scratching on my door, I knock loudly on the door window & that usually scares him away. But last Friday, that didn't work. He wasn't going to budge. So I stood there staring at him and he reached inside the wreath and pulled out this huge slice of bread. He was pretty good at stashing it in there because I never saw it from outside or inside the door. Then he sat on my porch and ate it, not caring at all that I was staring at him.

I have noticed with mice too that if they are hungry enough, they won't pay you any mind.

This morning as I came back from our local farmer's market, I reached in the wreath and parted it all over the place to see if he was stashing any more food in there. This time I found popcorn. He had it so well placed that it didn't fall out. Amazing.

It gets harder to care what he does to my porch decorations & furnature when I have so much reverence for his skills.

WEBSITES AND LINKS

I have a website at www.lisewinne.com/

Our Renaissance band has a myspace here. Our Celtic band has a myspace here. I also started my own music myspace a couple of years later here.

I also began selling some of my art online through an Etsy shop. 

I actually created this a whole year ago, but I wasn't sure I liked it so I never posted it anywhere until now. I am not so critical of it after all of this time has passed, though I'm doing some pieces in a somewhat similar vein that I like much, much more & I think are more indicative of what I am capable of. 

This one is an altered ink & watercolor painting made to look like an 1800s book illustration in the tradition of "Alice and Wonderland." 

I have her for sale in my Etsy shop  as a greeting card only.

We are in rehearsals now for The Dance Flurry Festival, one of my favorite venues. It is also where our band formed. In other performances at this festival, we performed a lot of English Country Dance Music (music of Jane Austen's time as heard in the BBC/PBS movies). But this time it will be heavily centered around a blend of Celtic and French Canadian. There are some fairy tunes up our sleeves for a future concert.

:-) 

WEBSITES AND LINKS

I have a website at www.LiseWinne.com

Our Renaissance band has a myspace here. Our Celtic band has a myspace here. I also started my own music myspace a couple of years later here.

I also began selling some of my art online through an Etsy shop. 

 Note: the copyright watermarks do not appear in actual piece.

This is my last "finished" artwork of the year (a watercolor). I always try to paint an angel for the holidays. Angels are very faerie-like (& let's face it: probably one & the same when it all comes down to it!). I always wanted to paint an angel that had doves for wings.

I am in rehearsals now for 4 performances in December including one before the press. I am really enjoying the music side of my life right now and I am not doing any artwork at all. I do have some pieces that I started in November which I am really excited about, but they can all wait for the new year.

WEBSITES AND LINKS

I have a website at www.LiseWinne.com

Our Renaissance band has a myspace here. Our Celtic band has a myspace here. I also started my own music myspace a couple of years later here.

I also began selling some of my art online through an Etsy shop. 

Please note: the copyright watermarks do not appear in the actual art.

This is my newest design and was finished & scanned today. The design measures 12" x 16 1/2 ".

The title to this piece is actually "Pawn in Autumn". The reference to pawn has to do with chess. In chess, any being that is not a king, queen, bishop, knight or rook is a pawn. This one is obviously a pet because of its collar.  

I figured this was an appropriate design for the season. Happy Halloween everybody!  

These are 2 more graphic images I finished on October 19 from my sculpture (actually it is a relief sculpture on a hand-thrown platter that has hanging wire on the back: ready to hang on a wall). You can view the original piece here. I went a little further than last time I posted. I still wanted to keep it relatively monocromatic, but add just a hint of color here and there (or everywhere!). I'm not sure which image I like the most, which is why I posted both. Any ideas? 

I'm really enjoying this approach. I love doing ceramic sculpture, but once it is sold, it is gone forever (and I never thought I could make prints like 2-d artists... but, it turns out I can, in a way). Of course, I couldn't give a goblet another life, but I haven't tried either!  Maybe there is a way...

On another note (musical), I have been practicing every evening on some new material. More range for my voice. Really enjoying it.

Too many ideas and not enough time. Maybe there should have been 2 of me? One to make the art & another to make the music?