Painting: Five Animals Hidden at Echo Lake

I mostly painted this 5 x 7 landscape with an airbrush on multimedia artboard, but also used art markers and colored pencil. In this painting of Echo Lake, you'll find a circle of 5 animals.

Artist Statement

I've been working on an Artist Statement for an upcoming artshow. What do you think? Any and all suggestions are welcome! This is just an idea... I've edited it with some minor changes...


ARTIST STATEMENT

We are Sandra Healy's animals and as usual she has dragged her paws about writing an artist statement, so we are doing it for her. We used to just include wood animals, and enjoyed her hands holding us while carving and painting, and  we anticipated traveling to new homes around the world.

But now we include some new friends! Sandra has applied the skills, used for airbrushing our delicate patterns, to create some flat paintings. We felt somewhat jealous of the landscape paintings which left us out, so when she wasn't paying attention, we sneaked in, hiding in the leaves, blending with the dunes, becoming like the trees.

When people look at a landscape in the real world, they can't see all the life that is hidden there. Sandra's new paintings express that, and we animals are so pleased to be there, and hope humans enjoy searching for us.

Echo Lake Hidden Animals Painting

My latest painting, Echo Lake in the Trinity Alps of northern Califoria. I <think> it is finished. Size: 9 x 12 inches.

Sculpture Featured on ArtFire Front Page

My Bear and Fish sculpture was featured on the Front Page of ArtFire. It's a lovely collection called "March is Pisces Time".

March is Pisces Time...what sort of fish...

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