This is a grand effort that I am proud of, made for and displayed during Anthrocon 2015. Please take some time to enjoy this oil painting, my most intense and involved furry art, one of my most involved art pieces of my life. I wrote a description that accompanied this artwork that was on display in the Art Show:

About Miga

This is Miga (Zenaida meloda), a dove of South America. He is adorned with some Viking riches, surely from the spoils of plunder. He wears two neck rings, and has had a coin carefully curved and fashioned to clip gently by his nostrils, all of these gold. Though, I don't think he participated in any plunder but rather traded for these pieces of jewelry. He stands in a very old-growth forest, well in the northern lands. It seems that like his species, he is soon satisfied to wear just a few shinies--but what shinies he has procured!

I've had the chance to observe and draw from this species many times and it is one of my favorite birds. They are opportunistic yet skittish, they make flimsy nests and seem to keep poor feather hygiene, yet they flourish with their own beauty, and are absolutely everywhere in sight in their region. It's certainly a very long way to go from South America to the far north of Europe, but allowing a bit of playful imagination (and considering the widespread reach of Viking culture) I am sure Miga made the journey.

This painting has been both a wonderful and terrifying challenge. I found great enjoyment in mixing and spreading the powerfully vivid oil colors on canvas, and letting ideas play together without worrying too much about the what ifs of a new medium for me. I also learned about the fine brush control I have yet to acquire in painting and had scary moments of committing to deep permanent strokes. But what a splendid medium: oil paint offers colors of such intensity that we cannot replicate them on any display or screen, and oil artwork can last for centuries.

Thank you for viewing my art, and for supporting all of us artists. Enjoy.

The funny (or annoying learning experience) about this painting along with my other work is that I got off on a baaaad start setting this up for the Anthrocon Art Show. Foolishly, I thought that I haaaaad to use the absolute minimum amount of panels for all my art, and didn't think ahead about what I would actually use in art show space. So, I didn't have enough room. And the only alternative was to put all my art in the mature section of the Art Show. So, after navigating all the.... fluids and... rubbery... bits, I finally was set up and off to work the Artist Alley. The hilarious thing was that I was getting reports from visitors at my table that they seemed to like Miga but everybody that saw it kept on playing 'Find the Penis!' Because no one understood why this G-rated painting was supposedly adult! So they were breaking their heads looking for the supposedly hidden deep metaphorical adult meaning of this! And that made me laugh, it was memorable. :} I guess I've done everything now that I had my art in the mature section. cx My thanks go to the ever-hard-working Art Show staff who by Saturday managed to find me a place in the General section to get me more exposure.

This is oil on canvas, 3 feet by 4 feet (91cm x 122cm) and is for sale, mounted on a frame but without an external border frame. $220, and we can negotiate. I would be happy to deliver in my local area free, and would prefer to deliver than mail up to a 264 mile radius from home (with just a fuel charge), and further than that would mail framed, because this is my baby and treasure and I wanna have it pristine for you. (Also I'd like to go on a road trip.) Your support would help me continue painting and also prep me for a chance at my own independent life, not to mention you'd have a pretty memory of Anthrocon, and I'd get ARTIST EGO BOOST hee :) Please do comment, critique even, I know I'm not great at oil painting, I'm only starting out, so it'll be okay. Thanks for looking :>