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I've been buried in the studio again, getting ready for the Artisan Holiday Show.  Over the next several days I will be posting the 6x6 birds that will be for sale.
I'd love to have you stop by the show.  But if you cannot make it and want a bird, I am making them available from this site!
If you see one you'd like that is sold, I would be happy to do another similar bird.  No two are ever exactly alike, however.  All of these come mounted on a nice board for a beautiful presentation.  (See below)  Hanging gear is placed on back so paintings are ready to hang on your wall.

"Don't Give Me No Lip" 6x6 oil/GB

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Local Pick up $55.00 USD Shipping $70.00 USD

"It's a New Day" 6x6 oil/GB

Shipping or Pick up

Local Pick up $55.00 USD Shipping $70.00 USD

"Peeper" 6x6 oil/Gessobord

Shipping or Pick up

Local Pick up $55.00 USD Shipping $70.00 USD

Below is an example of a painting mounted on a black board

Bird oil paintings Birds Studio Tips Good Books How to eat healthy quotes original art Tracy Haines

I love painting birds and flowers from time to time.  Few items in nature allow full- on color like these two subjects do. This sweet Junco is available from my Etsy shop at Tracy's Etsy Shop

Studio Tip of the Day:

Before

Get rid of chocolate from your studio!  I filled a lovely wire basket with small bites of chocolate, after reading another artist's blog about how every studio is incomplete without chocolate.

This has not worked for me!  One small indulgence always, without fail for me, leads to 20 small indulgences and I might as well just buy and eat 3 KitKat bars a day.  I feel bloated, sluggish and decidedly unhealthy lately.
I am now detoxing on Dr. Fuhrman's Eat to Live and feel oh so much better!

After



His book is interesting and full of great tips on eating well. My husband and I have committed to giving this a try for a full 6 weeks.  Stay tuned! :)

Quote of the Day:

 Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take; and good poets make it into something better, or atleast something different.The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique,  utterly different from that from which it was torn. - T.S. Eliot
This is true in art as well.  Wolf Kahn thinks so.  So does Austin Kleon.  So do I.
Enjoy your day and thank you for checking in!  :)

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Please stop by and bring a friend or two! Or ten! :)

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Title:  O'Fallon Park Artist: Tracy Haines Medium: Oil on linen canvas on masonite Size : 9x12 Unframed This painting was done en plein air on a beautiful spring day in the mountains of Colorado.  It was delightful to paint on such a crisp, fresh morning to the music of a swiftly flowing stream!

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Dog and I traveled this icy,slippery path around Lair of the Bear.  I had a small box of pastels in hand and a few small pastel panels.  By the time I left later that morning, my rear end was snow and mud-covered , clothes were paint-stained and muddy too.  But what a great and fun morning adventure.
This piece was an acrylic done from the pastel study.