"Hummer in Dry Grass" is a painting from a series I started a some years ago, and still continues. At the time, these 20×24” paintings were small sized for me. I had just wound down a series of much larger pictures, that were about the American west. (That theme is another story, and some day I’ll put those pictures up for sale).
But for this series, the small size was a result of a shoulder injury that prevented any movement in my left arm, my painting arm.
This picture started with flinging paint in vertical lines as a background, and then, figuring out how the subject would be represented. The bird came together in the end.
As to the subject matter, I have always been fascinated by the hummingbird; its unique wing wave pattern (more like a rotary helicopter doing a figure-8, than typical birds, flapping up and down), their coloring, the sound they make, their diet (sugar water). Some years into Covid it became a symbol of a desire for freedom during lockdown.
An original oil, acrylic and pearlescent painting, on stretched canvas, 20”x24”, wired and ready to hang. Unframed.
Buy it today, and make my day!
Thanks for your time, and consideration. -Mark Lindquist
Ships within 2-4 days
"Hummer in Dry Grass" is a painting from a series I started a some years ago, and still continues. At the time, these 20×24” paintings were small sized for me. I had just wound down a series of much larger pictures, that were about the American west. (That theme is another story, and some day I’ll put those pictures up for sale).
But for this series, the small size was a result of a shoulder injury that prevented any movement in my left arm, my painting arm.
This picture started with flinging paint in vertical lines as a background, and then, figuring out how the subject would be represented. The bird came together in the end.
As to the subject matter, I have always been fascinated by the hummingbird; its unique wing wave pattern (more like a rotary helicopter doing a figure-8, than typical birds, flapping up and down), their coloring, the sound they make, their diet (sugar water). Some years into Covid it became a symbol of a desire for freedom during lockdown.
An original oil, acrylic and pearlescent painting, on stretched canvas, 20”x24”, wired and ready to hang. Unframed.
Buy it today, and make my day!
Thanks for your time, and consideration. -Mark Lindquist
Ships within 2-4 days
