Wine Crow, 1-30-2025
accepted into crow show before I reworked it, after... ? ...

Created in hope of getting in the 2025 National Crow Show at the Studio Door which it did but then I had to 'fix' it. The underprint for this piece is a layering of two photos. A crow and a naked person standing and drinking wine. the person was elongated and placed so that one of their eyes overlapped the crows. While working on the piece, I engraved the paper and colored the human figure differently than the crow. After applying the final black, I dripped red from the person’s lips and breasts. Several other things are going on as well. Gradually the two images became one. Mixed Media, acrylics, micron pens and an archival underprint on Epson Hot Press Natural paper (heavy weight) mounted on a prepared Ampersand cradled hardboard 6x18x2.'
old (accepted into Crow Show version) and new New (hopefully still accepted) version