HEARTS, Birds

8"x8" Hearts. Finished this morning! Hand painted imagery, and tiles. Vintage shards cut to fit my design.
Yes,these hearts are available on etsy.  http://www.susanjenkinsart.etsy.com/

HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS

8"X8" Pique assiette heart. Newest heart this morning. I have some lovely new shards and plates ready to work with. A little from here and a bit from there and help from family and friends!
I am painting. I'm working on a painting almost finished  and I will post it when done. Busy hands!!
SOLD!

BIRD and ROSE Tote Bag

17"x21" Original design. Rose oil painting applied to vintage quilted rose fabric with vintage satin ribbon. Original painted bird on canvas, cut out and applied. This bag is completely lined in soft yellow cotton. Matching handles with a 9" drop. A little pouch comes with. This bag was a special joy to make! I love the quilted fabric and the colors. Adding the painted bird is just fun! I have enough to make another bag and will be designing it soon. You can find my bags on Face Book at Susan Jenkins Art Salon. Soon to be on Etsy. Please send your inquiries to me at susanjenkinsart@msn.com .

BIRD'S and HEART Pique assiette

Birds are 5"x 10.5 Heart is 8"x9" cut potterie on hand made clay tile.

I'm back to work but this time with Piquetiassiette. I love to work with the old plate shards that I cut to fit in a decoratitive motif. Always fun and rewarding. My friends see that I have alot of old and broken pottery to work with. Some pieces I can't bare to clip! You must be ruthless I was told some years ago. you can't fall in love with your materials...oh but I do.Some of you will recognize your gifts of lovely old plates. xo
 email me for info   susanjenkinsart@msn.com

Morro Bay Bird Fair

This morning a lovely trip down the coast to Morro Bay. A beautiful morning!
 My sister Julie and my brother in law Kim  and I looked forward to the yearly bird fair and seeing our favorite pottery artist, Paula Teplitz and the wonderful collection of books and bird paraphernalia that this show provides.
 Beautiful hand carved birds, delicately painted, paintings, books and hand made wares. Telescope's, glasses and cameras for birding and even a salve for the bites and rashes you may receive while looking for your favorite bird in the fields and trees.
After ward a drive around the darling little beach city of Morro Bay. Great fun! I am inspired!

Family Ties

24"x36" oil on canvas                                A Family of Crows    

BIRDS in PORCELAIN

3"x4" handbuilt porcelain clay birds .
New birds this morning, more soon. I have glazed these with a clear glass glaze fired in to bring out the colors of the feathers.I think I like it better!

CROWS with HEARTS

6"x4"  hand built earthenware clay. I've been painting these heartfelt crows with hearts for some time and it just occurred to me to make them in clay! This was fun, having these little crows come to life, so to speak!

CROW with HEART

6"x6" oil on board. Every crow with a heart needs a friend with one!

This one is new this morning. SOLD!

PORCELAIN BIRDS

2" to 4" tall. Birds made of porcelain. Hand built and hand painted.
These happy little birds bare a loose resemblance to a robin, goldfinch and sparrow.
The birds out side my studio door yesterday were singing and scuffling around in the trees and flowers with the blue jays coming by for their usual hand fulls of peanuts. A simply perfect day to be forming and painting a likeness of my charming friends.

BIRD NEST

3"x 1.5" hand built porcelain nest.

Being unglazed this has a different look I think than the others I've made with glazes.The color here is from under glazes, fired into the clay.

I'm working on some others with a red clay and very little paint, more fun!

The birds and un glazed,unpainted nests will be going to "Birds of a Feather" a sweet shop here all about birds and bird related things. You will also find antiques, jewelry and yummy taffy!!!

My paintings of birds and all of my paintings and clay work are available at the Chambers Gallery in Cambria.

BIRDS on TRAYS

Little metal trays painted in oil with birds and touched with gold. 6 1/2" x 5 1/2".

I am always looking for a new support to paint on. I found these little trays and thought these would be so fun to paint on. These are the first of 5 until I find more trays!!
I'd like to give my self the credit for the idea of trays but it was my friend Vicki Greene who said "how about painting your birds on trays "??

Love input! Thanks Vicki!!

BIRDS

New birds this morning!! These little birds are 3"x 2" and that varies just a bit. They are made of porcelain clay,one of a kind, all hand built and painted with mat glazes that are fired into the clay. All 3 birds are SOLD!!!

WHITE BIRD

hand built earthenware clay 5" tall

Fresh out of the kiln this morning, I made 2. I'm not sure if I will leave them white or paint them! I do like the pristine white glaze but I also like color! Maybe just leave them white for a while and make up my mind........A dilemma!!

BIRD HOUSES

Side of the blue bird house and back sides of the blue and one of the green. Today I am sketching new ideas. Bird related or something new? Today will tell! These have been so fun to make and more clay work sounds fun!

BIRD HOUSE

5" x10" Two more bird houses. Yes there is a bird peeking out of one of them ( pretend). They have roses on top and words. All pieces except the chards are hand made. I will post the backs too, I've been asked what they look like. These are weather proof, they have been sealed to protect them in the elements including water.

BIRD HOUSE

10"x5" piqueassiette . I have been working on bird houses for the last couple of weeks. I have 4 done and will post the other two tomorrow. The bird houses are first made in clay and fired then the shards are cut and applied. Then grouted. I have two more that I will post tomorrow!

The green one above the blue and white one is SOLD!

BLUE BIRD

6"x6" oil on board. They can spot their dinner from 130 feet away! Curtains for an insect of any type. They aren't fussy!

OYSTER CATCHER

6"x6" oil on board. Shore birds are my new fascination to paint. Beach walks with camera in hand.
The oyster catcher is found only in the marine shoreline environment favoring rocky over sandy areas. It eats most every kind of shell fish favoring muscles but it doesn't eat oysters!! It mates for life and their nests are made from shell fragments and small stones. Nest building is done by the male. SOLD!

BIRDS

Thursday I went to the book store to find a book on bird feeders. The squirrels completely demolished the one I had. A crash and bird seed everywhere. The little juncos were first to pounce on the seed. I was upset to say the least but knew I wanted something special to stop the marauding of the bird feeders!
This a great book! Not only does it have the feeder suggestions but all about habitat's and different bird species in California! Perfect!
I whipped up a makeshift feeder until I can get the one I want and this morning after the rain I was host to robins,juncos,chickadees and jays. I also have the delightful gold finch coming but that is a separate feeder.
All is right with the world again!!