Conversations in Avian Art and Ornithology


Challenges of Commissioned Works

I received a phone call one day from a woman asking if I had a Bohemian Waxwing painting.  She told me that a friend of hers had visited my studio during the Orcas Island Artist’s Studio Tour, and had picked up my business postcard and sent it to her.  After visiting my website, she decided to call.  I told her that I had not painted a Bohemian Waxwing, but was thinking about painting Cedar Waxwings.  A few years back, I had raised a clutch of baby waxwings.  They now come back to our yard every year to eat our raspberries and [...]

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