On Listings and Owl Prints

I’m slowly getting around to getting most of my stuff up on my art storefront. To be quite honest, I think there can be something internally thrilling about being able to list new pieces and share them with everyone. It’s simultaneously a logistical nightmare if backend user interfaces aren’t your thing.

For me, it’s an interesting mix. I think I struggled with listing so many pieces that I felt like I was drowning in a tidal wave of daunting tasks. They were taking me so achingly long to accomplish because I wasn’t familiar enough with the tools I was using. 

But not for lack of trying. And the more I repeated the process, the less fog and static noise my brain held. I had to push through. And life sucked there for a while.

Of course, it didn’t help that life sucked everywhere else, too.

Well, no—that’s not true. My little circle of a world has been quite nice. It’s on the local level here that I can confidently say things shine bright with goodwill and hope.

But I also find myself incapable of getting out into it to enjoy it as much as I’d like. There is always more to do on my site, always more to list, always more to fix. I’ve been sitting in the semi-dark of my studio space doing computer stuff for a while now, and my sciatica hasn’t been happy. Sometimes it takes a concentrated effort to force myself to pull away.

But not yet. Not until I share this new listing!

I did my owl art a couple years ago, and made it into a set of cards which I was really happy about. When I originally made it, I didn’t care what owls I was looking at because all I wanted was a pretty photo to use as inspirational reference. But in making these individual prints, I felt I needed to find out what species of owls I’d painted.

Lo and behold, this little dude is a Northern Saw-whet Owl, a species prevalent throughout almost all the US and Canada. I hadn't realized I'd done another bird that can be found here in Humboldt County! And it is a tiny little thing! It weighs little more than 50 paper clips combined, and averages about 6.5” to 8” in length. It’s very small! Their big eyes never fail to draw me in!

I’m happy with this one! I think it’s magical, and wow is it cute!

As with all my prints, this is a limited edition piece which will have a run of 30 prints and no more. Each is 11x17”, which I think is a good size to reveal the detail of the brush strokes and texture. It comes with a number and signed Certificate of Authenticity.