Robins, cardinals, fun and Christmas mood
Christmas mood must be intentionally created. Original art has a special attraction, energy and flare to it, therefore, it really helps. I don’t think there can be too much art on any walls. I have usually some 200 works of art on display in my studio gallery, and it does not feel overwhelming or crowded. I rotate my art depending on demand and season. It feels very appropriate to have snow scenes and winter villages on display when Christmas is around the corner, and it is very obvious that spring flowers blossom around the gallery in spring.
Fantastic small bird paintings
I have a special love to small birds. I preferred them to any other creatures already as a kid. I assume that one should only paint what they know. I watch these birds during any season, and I have hundreds of sketches which I can turn into artworks later. I painted this particular painting “Robins, winter” last year. I painted 6 bird paintings. As it frequently happens, I felt I wanted to improve the color balance. So, I added a few more layers of paint to this painting. I believe it became better and birds are more bird-like, as well. The entire scene is lovely and welcoming and speaks for itself – it works very well for Christmas mood.
Robins, winter, 16 x 20 in (41 cm x 51 cm) acrylic painting on canvas, sold
Festive gift painting workshop
I invite everybody to participate in a festive workshop at the beginning of December to try out how nice of an adventure it is to create something heart-warming and cheerful. We can choose the image, and some people usually prefer winter scenes, some illustration or wall decoration type of art, as well as some might go for birds. We also paint poinsettias almost every winter. I must admit, that is a subject which always works well on canvas and paper and looks great.
Create the mood, create the gift
The best way to get into Christmas mood is to create art that suits the season. Let us celebrate in style with original art this year! Please let me know if you like “Robins, winter” painting and whether you’d love me to ship it to you!
Art prints and other artistic products are available from Fine Art America., just click on image.
My favorite from all products with this particular painting is the spiral notebook. It looks unbelievably good! Mugs also look impressive, so do actually lots of my art products and art prints.
Here is how you get to purchase many fantastic prints and similar artsy things at very attractive prices: Art collections by Inese Poga
Celebrate in style and have a wonderful Christmas mood!
Your birds are beautiful, Inese 🙂
Thanks, Irene! They took a while to get done, about 2 weeks last year and about 2 more weeks this year. I love also how this painting came out.
Thanks for visiting! I just recently found out that website posts do not appear on the Reader. Too bad, I did not know that before I moved my art blog to a website. This means, I have to practically invite everybody because it feels to me that after this move, my art blog became invisible. Well, I had 2 blogs before, and one of them still was not doing fine since WordPress has accounts, and one cannot have 2 or 3 equally performing blogs. I find that a problem.
I found your post in my Reader, Inese.
I do imagine that is because you are following or were following already the blog when it wasn’t a website yet.
I’m not sure, Jetpack support told that my blog posts would not appear generally in the Reader. Who knows? I was simply suspicious and asked them why I was not getting any new followers because when this was a WP blog, I was getting new followers every day. That’s what they said. These posts are not visible when somebody scrolls through the Reader and I believe when they do not follow this website.
Okay. I only use WP as platform, so I don’t know much about it otherwise.
I do, too. It is simple with WP blogs, but it becomes more difficult with websites on WP platform because it is still the same platform, just the host if different, etc., and I have to update everything myself and take care of any related things.
I have only paid for my blog name, so people can search for my blog without to need to write wordpress.com too.
Definitely, if you want the blog to appear as your individual name or something specific, you pay for it. I did that, too, that is what you have to do in order to have it your way. Like “inesepogalifeschoool.com” or the other one which I transferred from the blog “inesepogagallery.com” because it’s on all business cards, on all previous links, printed and online materials, etc.
Excactly!
It does not help actually to move a blog to website. It involves a lot more payments, plus, they want something to be paid all the time. I did not realize there are hardly any advantages, especially taking into account how good blog themes have become. I’d not do it again.
this is such beautiful birds, creative art!!
Thanks a lot!
I love your robins.
Thanks! I think it was worth working on this painting for so long. They definitely look better now than in the first version.
They are so, so adorable Inese – Love this!!!
Thanks, Deb! I really appreciate your nice comment!
The robins look beautiful.
Thanks so much! They took me 2 years to finish.
These are absolutely lovely, dear Inese…. You are so talented!. Merry Christmas 💕💞🤶🎄… and happy New Year. 🙂
Thanks, Aquileana! I have quite a few wishes for Christmas. Well, how good everything will be depends on what surgeon decides on Dec. 22.