Perriwinkle Tribute Canvas Print

Our family had a beautiful turquoise parakeet named Perriwinkle. We nicknamed him "Perr" and I swear he could say his name...or maybe he thought that's who we were. With unclipped wings, he enjoyed full flight in the kid's bedrooms. He lived through the LA earthquake with his cage on the kitchen floor. He is still missed and remembered and I was unaware that he was embedded in my abstract art, little Perry, big Perry...he's all over the page. Such a wonderful experience to share love with a bird.

I began my love for art by watching my mother paint in oils and pastels. I must have caught the bug because I have enjoyed fifty years of drawing, painting and photography, urged on and instructed by professors, a botanist, a master of Chinese brush painting and calligraphy, water colorists and lately, mixed media devotees. After a course in cubism in 1973 I began to explore pen and ink geometric art. Each stroke was unplanned but exact, the designs becoming more elaborate and more fun to execute. First circles, then onward to straight lines, then organic and architectural constructions. Thirty years later I still dance out on the white space of a simple sheet of paper to weave new drawings. Picasa effects allow me to...