Sculpture

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This wooden cardinal was an example of pure serendipity. My father was cutting wood to make curtain rod supports for a room we were adding to the house. I looked at the scrap he was about to throw away and saw possibilities in the abstract shape that had formed. He sanded the edges for me, and I used paint colors I'd mixed up for a community college project- I had overestimated how much red I'd need. After I studied it further, this is what I painted.

I've added blue shapes to show what the curtain rod supports look like. The gap where the branch might have extended had broken off when being sawn. Other supports had been cut out, back to back with the ones on the right side, but they were cut closer and there wasn't even scrap to be usable for anything interesting. As you can see, I inherited my eclectic approach to design from my father. Mom always said he 'had an artistic eye'. The tree was painted by my father in the corner of our living room, extending over two walls.