Monday, July 9, 2012

MORRIGAN AND CORVUS

"Passing Shadow"
The new crop of crow youngsters are noisy and busy.
I see them all over the neighborhood trying out their flying skills
and getting into trouble with the squirrels.

Since I like to paint what I know I used some of my photos of 
my feathered neighbors as references for my latest paintings.

"Morrigan's Companion"
Morrigan is a goddess of Irish mythology and her companion
is a crow.  A crow flying overhead could either cause fear
or courage in the hearts of warriors.  This painting is 
another one inspired by my crow, or corvus, neighbors.  I like
to watch them walk across our lawn searching for a breakfast
of crumbs from a picnic or an unfortunate bug.

For the Virtual Paintout I submitted one more sketch for Latvia
called, "The House at the Bend in the Road."  This month's 
subject for the paintout is Thailand.  I'm excited to 
do a virtual Google Maps tour of that place for inspiration.

Just a reminder.  You can see all the paintings I have for sale 
by clicking on the red "Watercolors by Leenie" icon in the 
upper left column of this blog.

10 comments:

  1. Those are awesome, Leenie! Fantastic work!

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  2. Interesting theme and beautiful watercolors.

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  3. Wow Leenie - you have been busy with such wonderful results! I found the Virtual Paintout interesting and the Google Tour Map inspiring -thanks for the link!

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  4. Oh Leenie these are fantastic. Someday I am going to own one, that is on my wish list. B

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  5. Your colors are so exceptional. Very awesome work!

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  6. I love your crows ..... when I go for my early morning walk there are lots of crows squabbling in the trees, making a tremedous racket!

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  7. Great work with the watercolors. We have crows here as big as the chickens. Kind of menacing. I think of the crow in that movie of Stephen King's The Stand. He was up to no good. The crow. Not Stephen King.

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  8. Well done! Our crows have moved to the city dump for the summer...lots of pick'ns out there!


    Linda
    http://coloradofarmlife.wordpress.com
    http://deltacountyhistoricalsociety.wordpress.com

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  9. Stunning paintings as always. Your paintings fill my soul.

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  10. SKILLS! You do know how to paint! Why are there letters across them? There are more crows on the deck now , with the jays...but are intimidated by the jays and the squirrel...they shouldn't be, they are the biggest kids on the block!

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