Violet-Green Swallow
(1995)
Acrylic on illustration
board
15" x 30"
(Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI)
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most of my work, where aspects of behavior or ecology provide
my motivation, in this piece it was a design concept that spurred
me on. While sitting one evening on the edge of a marsh I was
intrigued by the angled lines created by the partially submerged
sedges and their reflections and thought I could use such lines
to help simulate the movement of a subject across the piece.
I selected the western American violet-green swallow (Tachycineta
thalassina) as my subject because its colors would contrast
nicely against a reflected orange sunset. This composition is
uncharacteristically spare for me, and I just couldn't help adding
a damsel fly (Argia sp.). |
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