illuminated aviary

well, since i moved my studio out of the bus (my house) and down the road, i had to come up with something to do in my 'downtime' in the evenings (anita, you were totally right on). i still like to watch movies and stitch books together at the end of the day, but here's what i've been working on just for fun lately; combining my favorite medieval, celtic and art nouveau styles with birds from my own yard (the mourning doves come in the summertime, but everyone else is hanging about right now). i don't know if i'm going to do the entire alphabet; i need to start working on the "applegate project"!

revel in wintertime

check it out! i got my drawing on the holiday cover of the local food co-op rag, which i'm pretty proud of...but the artist credit just says "Brenna Jael"...no last name, no web address...which was really WHY i agreed to spend 20 hours on a drawing for a $75 credit; exposure to 10,000 people in the skagit valley.
no harm done; i googled "brenna jael" and there i was, of course....sometimes it's nice to have an unusual name.
also, i traded the credit for 4 months of advertising.
i know it's just fire paper, but still, it's a small thrill.

by the way, i did print some cards with this image, that i'm selling, and i can make larger prints by request. check my etsy shop BBearproductions, or if you're on the 'Pez, they're for sale at LoCo.

sally by the sea

i painted these last spring, but sally recently got them hung up out by the road, so i stopped by for a photo shoot. despite the fact that she lives on a very quiet country road, and it's dead winter, the "open" sign has apparently attracted a lot of walk-in traffic already.
i hope this works for me at my new studio!!!

here's a link to sally's etsy shop, where she sells extremely cool screenprinted goods:

sallybythesea.etsy.com

one more for Isabel's Espresso (two sides)