The Crow Sisters …. in progress

This is a 16″x16″ profile canvas.

This painting is in progress. I am doing an art show in November for Shadow Theatre’s season opener “Harvest”. I am still in the progress of reading the play and am enjoying it immensely. It takes place in the Alberta country side which I just happened to look at for over 8hours while driving up to Grande Prairie and back last weekend. I saw a lot of harvesting and I saw a lot of crows. I have to admit, I love crows. They are kind of sinister but they stick together and they are so brave and vocal. Boy, are they vocal. I don’t see crows often in the city. We have a lot of magpies and I think that the crows stay away from them. I love magpies as well, although I know a lot of people don’t, but they just aren’t as intriguing to me as crows. I wonder if it is because we didn’t have magpies in Victoria so there is no emotional pull. No nostalgia, no child hood memories … stuff that I often resurface when painting. Speaking of that, the title comes from what we called the two old spinster sisters that lived in my neighborhood. I am guessing their last name was Crow, I never really thought about it before. They, like crows, stuck it out together in their little house way into their old age. They were sweet, kind and gentle to us children, perhaps this is why I have such an affinity to crows. Who can say.