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Submitted: November 7, 2011
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Domicileby ~kellymckernan

Traditional Art / Paintings / Surreal

This is "Domicile" for the upcoming Neighbors show at Young Blood Gallery, opening December 3rd. It measures 12" x 16" and was painted in watercolor.

The idea of the show was to portray our neighbors. As I don't quite interact with my neighbors, I thought to make my piece about what I see outside my living room window. My husband and I love feeding the birds in our yard, and we have a beautiful birch tree that we hang our feeders on. Of the birds, we have a large family of cardinals. I'm always in awe of their coloring, especially the female. Also their devotion to one another - how the male feeds the female when they're mating and when they have babies, the male feeds the chicks. Furthermore, there is a wild rose bush that is entwined with the birch tree, hence the roses.

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=hoshicho Jul 25, 2012 Traditional Artist

Wonderful work and details

~elyadthepain Jun 23, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

This is so beautiful ...

~ashka-klm Jun 10, 2012 Student Traditional Artist

loooovvee this ;0

!Faridnite Jan 29, 2012

wow - this is amazing work
all your work is

~Katherine-Dae Jan 20, 2012 General Artist

Great style artwork! As well as the others actually.

~Haalu Nov 18, 2011 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

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~bigrhonda55 Nov 12, 2011

i love the use of negative space in this piece, very apeasing to the eye.

~LlehNevaeh Nov 10, 2011

this is it, girl

~mrcup Nov 9, 2011 Professional Digital Artist

I like the birch. Did you paint around the branches or erase them out with bleach?

What does your cat think of the birds?

~kellymckernan Nov 10, 2011 Professional Traditional Artist

Thanks! I painted around the branches. I don't use bleach anymore and I stopped tea staining paper since I found that some pieces began showing spots of mold...

The cats LOVE the birds.

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