I just finished my first big commission, and as you can see, she’s not a pigeon. Adorable and very round, Mary Jane is a fox squirrel currently in the care of Yggdrasil Urban Wildlife Rescue. When Mary Jane’s rehabber, Janet, asked if I could make a portrait of a beloved rescue squirrel, I was honored....Continue Reading
Alfred is an eight-year-old king pigeon hen—yes, Alfred is very much a girl—who I long admired from afar. She came to Palomacy with two other baby pigeons, all of them found hiding under a bush in a park. For several years, Alfred and her former husbird, Pirate, were a bit Instagram-famous. I was not the...Continue Reading
It’s been a couple of months since I checked in here. The pace of my artmaking has slowed way down as I work on building my drawing skills. I like how nature journaling teacher John Muir Laws refers to intensive drawing practice as pencil miles. Recently, my pencils (and crayons) have visited everything from wonky...Continue Reading
Shortly after I met my husband, he discovered a trick to distract me if I was upset about something. He’d say, “Look at the bird!” Of course, this only worked when a bird was around, but it did work, and we were around birds pretty often. He had been doing this for a while before...Continue Reading
When beloved foster bird Speckle passed away last fall, Nicole and Chris rushed her body to the Veterinary Medical Hospital at U.C. Davis for postmortem testing. Because concerning symptoms had appeared in their flock, they shouldered their sadness and wasted no time. Speckle was a beautiful girl rescued hungry and stray in a small community...Continue Reading
I’ve decided not to have a newsletter. Having a blog plus a newsletter is too many things in a world of too many things. A business person would probably tell me to keep the newsletter and ditch the blog because newsletters give you metrics. But I love blogs. I started blogging in 2007; it’s a...Continue Reading
Meet the new member of the scrap board pigeon flock: Jacob. This elegant gentleman, an Old Dutch Capuchine pigeon, was first rescued in 1993. Twenty-two years later, Jacob came to Palomacy Pigeon & Dove Adoptions after a veterinarian intervened in a plan to euthanize him solely because of his advanced age.Continue Reading
The Fairfax Art Walk was Friday night. I had no idea what to expect and was nervous while setting up my table in front of SOON, but then so many people showed up that there was no time for nerves. The town became a big, happy party, and I talked to people for four hours...Continue Reading
I look forward to showing my work at the 4th Annual Fairfax Art Walk on Friday evening, September 29, from 5:30–9 p.m. Each participating merchant partners with a local artist, and I'll be in front of a cute shop called SOON! at 51 Bolinas Road.Continue Reading
Rescued feral pigeon Mo is the heart of the series In Your Hands, pictured as a baby at the time of his rescue and also an adult bird. This series began when I had a mishap working on the original series of post-it pigeons. I applied a cold wax finish to my completed pieces, and...Continue Reading
