"With Loving Hands", garden print giveaway from Jeri

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 This is being printed today, so it is time to pop your name in the "basket" if you would like a chance to win a signed, unframed Lithograph of my new painted paper cutting, "With Loving Hands". Size is 16x20 which is a standard frame size. Any reader of the Gazette, living anywhere in the world, may enter by leaving a comment. If you left a comment previously (2 post down) ABOUT this artwork, your name will be entered twice.

 I will devise some clever way to chose the name a week from today. I'm pretty good at that!

Since finishing this piece, I've decided to add two "companion" pieces. So I have been working away.

My first order of business was to put in a call to the "Every Creeping Thing" Modeling Agency. They sent over a few models.

This model was quite attractive... but he simply would not stay still..

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He kept climbing the curtains...

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and helping himself to my coffee. So I gave him the boot. The last I saw of him , he was lurking in the cone flowers. The other model was much more cooperative.

But I guess that's because he was just a little bit D.O.A

Sometimes, you just have to depend on reference books....

dozens and dozens of them.

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Then, you just spend countless hours at the drawing board.

At least these models were easy to come by.

This painted paper-cutting will have 30 birds in it!  Painting bird feathers gives me a pain. If you would like to follow the development of this piece, click along the border box, entitled,"Works in Progress"

  I will show it to you when finished, in the meantime, sign up for the Garden Print!