Chicken Nancy Luce

Nancy Luce was a poet who lived for 76 years on Martha’s Vineyard raising chickens and writing poems about them to sell to tourists. She died in 1890 and today tourists leave plastic chickens on her grave.
This is her portrait, 8" x 10", acrylic on acid-free paper, work in progress, by Julie Kwiatkowski Schuler.

Mounting Birds for the Ornithologial Exhibit

Mounting Birds for the Ornithological Exhibit. Original Painting at Etsy.

Mounting Birds for the Ornithologcial Exhibit

Painting in progress.

Mounting Birds for the Ornithologcial Exhibit

Work in progress.

Armin Schmidt Mounts Birds for the Natural History Museum

At work at the Natural History Museum, Ornithology Exhibit.

I Catch the Birds, I am the Crafty Thing

I Catch the Birds, I am the Crafty Thing. Original painting. 8" x 10" acrylic on acid-free paper.
Inspired by a line from the 1864 poem Caliban upon Setebos by Robert Browning.
by Julie Kwiatkowski Schuler
Painting does not contain the black bars or the "My Good Babushka" watermark. Those were included here for security and formatting purposes.

I Catch the Birds, I am the Crafty Thing

Inspired by a line from the 1864 poem Caliban upon Setebos by Robert Browning.
by Julie Kwiatkowski Schuler

I Catch the Birds, I am the Crafty Thing

Painting in progress today.

The Bird Feeder

The Bird Feeder.  At My Good Babushka. The Bird Feeder. Original acrylic painting 8" x10" on acid free paper by Julie Kwiatkowski Schuler.
Inspired by the Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine. The story of St. Remy. Birds accompanied him whenever he sat down to eat, to share in his food. I imagined when he sat down to dine his arms grew long enough for his dinner companions to have a nice perch. Surreal fairy tale charm.

The Bird Feeder.

The Bird Feeder. Work in progress today.
Inspired by the Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine. The story of St. Remy. Birds accompanied him whenever he sat down to eat, to share in his food. I imagined when he sat down to dine his arms grew long enough for his dinner companions to have a nice perch. Surreal fairy tale charm.

The Birdfeeder

There is an apocryphal story in The Golden Legend of St. Remy, and how whenever he at the birds came down to share his meal because he was so gentle and blessed. I thought to depict this meal, being shared with the birds, too many birds, and Remy's arms growing long enough for all the birds to perch on them as they were eating his bread.

Magpie

Magpie. Original acrylic painting on paper 8" x 10".
Young woman beset with magpies. Inspired by an archaic superstition that one would be in mortal danger if a magpie took one's hair to build a next.
By Julie K. Schuler. The painting does not contain the black bars or the "My Good Babushka" watermark, which were included here for formatting and security purposes.

Magpie

Young woman beset with magpies. Inspired by an archaic superstition that one would be in mortal danger if a magpie took one's hair to build a nest.