Hi, y'all!

[OodleyBoodely]

Hel-loooooo! I see a lot of familiar psuedonyms here! I'm really not a birdie person-working at petsmart cured me of that, but I do enjoy seeing and reading about others feathered fiends...er...I mean friends!:D I live with my mother and sister, one dog, seven cats, and my 55g reef aquarium. This looks like it's going to be a great site! Best of luck, y'all!:cool: Kerry

[Bill]

Welcome Kerry! Thanks for coming over and introducing yourself! You are always welcome to visit with us about your animals.

[Junkzoo]

Welcome Kerry! ,Ahh, another TRT'er arrives here! :dance:
Welcome aboard , enjoy your time here,,(you'll get a bird soon enuf ) LOL

[Majj]

Hi Kerry...Nice to meet you I am Marion aka Majj...
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[Islandzoo]

Hi Kerry & welcome :)

[Shirley]

Hello Kerry!

Welcome to our site!!

I'd like to let you all know that Kerry is one awesome artist! Please show some of your work, Kerry! I particularly love her horses, but if you ever wanted your birds painted, she'd do them proud, that is for sure!

I can only imagine what Skyler (upper right bird in the header) would look like with your style!

I'm so glad you are here, Kerry!

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[vmtwriter]

Hi Kerry, welcome to the bird forum. So, you say you're not going to get a bird eh? Hang around here long enough and you'll want one of each. We have a Sun COnure parrot that flew into our back yard and adopted us. He's just getting to know us now.

[OodleyBoodely]

Hey, Thankyou all for the really warm welcome! :woot: :thanx:


I can't say I have never wanted a bird, and in fact would love to have one, just that it would not be a good situation. I quit keeping reptiles (beardies, jackson and veiled chameleons, and collared lizards) for the same reason I won't keep birds. The cats rule this roost! I lost a pet collared lizard-walked into the room where no cats were allowed (yea, right!)- to see a feline friend joyfully flipping the lifeless body of a scaled friend in the air. :( I know people keep cat/dogs successfully with small animals and birds, but, it's a gamble at best with a life on the line. It is not a situation I want to deal with again, besides, this house is too dang crowded all ready! :funny:

I worked a few years at Petsmart where I got my 'basic training' in birds/fish/reptiles. I fell in love there with a baby parotlet! I had that little guy on my shoulder all day while I bagged fish and counted crickets. I had him trained to lay on his back in my palm and kick his feet-it was really cute!

My boss finally (as much as) told me to either buy the bird or leave it alone. :bawling: Needless to say, I could not afford a $250 bird plus gear. I did manage to sell him to a good home-one consolation at least.

Shirley, thankyou for the great intro! Any time you want Skyler in paint just let me know- ;) Here's some new work. The two dog pics are watercolor, the rest oils.

[Jean]

Hi Kerry, :wavey: It is nice to meet you. I am excited to see your are an artist. I have a passion for nice art. You have painted some lovely western pieces. My favorite is the one with all the horses on it. :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v387/jeanaskins/welcome%20-%20friendship/daffodilwelcomegreeting.gifI had a dear friend that I've known since chidhood when he lived in CA, He later moved to Sedona, AZ. His love was painting western art. I am saddend to say he is no longer with us. Maybe, you have heard of him, his name is Chuck Ren.

[OodleyBoodely]

Hi, Jean, Yeah, I've seen some of Chuch Ren's work in some of the art mags. I really admired his work-he was very good and a real inspiration for a couple painting I did of native americans a few years back. Sorry to hear he is gone and that you lost a lifelong friend. Nice to meet you, too!:wavey:

[Jean]

Yeh, it was a sad loss. My dad knew his dad from way back. His heirs are still releasing some of his beautiful prints. They are still very saught after. What amazed me so of his art, he had the skill to captivate every blood vessel on a horse as though it had had a workout. I wish I could remember the name of a piece, I saw it sometime in the early 80's, it looked like the horse was really there with you.

[OodleyBoodely]

It has been a few years since I saw pics of his work, too, but I do know his prints were/are popular in the galleries here.

[Majj]

Wow !! I love your work...
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[OodleyBoodely]

Thankyou, Marion! You have some pretty nice art there, as well. ;)

[Shirley]

Beautiful work, Kerry! All new pieces, too! Do you still have the paint horse you showed us on TRT a couple three yrs ago on TRT? I loved that one! I really like your nature and horses!!

[OodleyBoodely]

Was it one of these? :scratchch I like the Paints and usually try to work them into my paintings if I'm not doing portrait work. ;)

[Jean]

Simply Beautiful!!! I love the paint's, they look like yearlings.

[Shirley]

Yep, it's the first one! I love it! And the longhorns is new! I've never seen longhorn paints! Or are the "Appaloosa"? Thank you!!

~ Shirley

[harleybaby]

Kerry it's very nice to meet you! and your art is absolutely breathtaking!!!!:D

[Sue]

Hi Kerry:wavey:



Welcome to our board, I absolutely LOVE your paintings.:wub:

[OodleyBoodely]

Simply Beautiful!!! I love the paint's, they look like yearlings.Thankyou, Jean. They are babies. That one is part of my "Western Treasures" series, called "Nursery Rhymes". When planning the painting, I was thinking about the way foals in a herd will congregate in play and learning together. The painting is a statement piece about the status of the mustang in America- a cherished symbol of freedom to many Americans and faithful, indispensible partner to western civilization, the mustang is a returned native son as the fossil record proves, and, IMO, should be accorded the rights of native wildlife, if not by birthright, then as earned right as co-conqueror of the new world.

.....:shrug2: ....well, I don't usually have two words to say about anything.....and then they usually have to be beat out of me!:rofl:

"... I've never seen longhorn paints! Or are the "Appaloosa"?"

:funny: Shirley, I had to throw the longhorns in...Paintazebraloosas? The one cow in front has patches, spots and stripes. The name is fiction, but the color is not. There used to be a herd of lh near here with a cow of the same color, the main inspiration for that painting. I used to drive 5 miles out of my way just to see her and the rest of the herd.. Unfortunately, they are now gone. The whole area between Ft. Worth and Weatherford used to be small farms and ranches. Now, it is so grown up with housing developements, that it is unrecognizable. That painting is what it used to look like in the Spring around here, and in fact, I photographed that barn (which is long gone) years ago and used it in the painting, too.

Sue and Harly, Thankyou! BTW, Sue, Toto looks like a Harpy with his feathers ruffled like that-neat shot!

[Jean]

[Quote] by-Oodley Boodley
Thank you, Jean. They are babies. That one is part of my "Western Treasures" series, called "Nursery Rhymes". When planning the painting, I was thinking about the way foals in a herd will congregate in play and learning together. The painting is a statement piece about the status of the mustang in America- a cherished symbol of freedom to many Americans and faithful, indispensible partner to western civilization, the mustang is a returned native son as the fossil record proves, and, IMO, should be accorded the rights of native wildlife, if not by birthright, then as earned right as co-conqueror of the new world.

..... ....well, I don't usually have two words to say about anything.....and then they usually have to be beat out of me!

I have to agree with you about the mustangs. I am saddened that our government signed into law they can now be hunted and rounded up by the public. This has attracted a lot of people with greedy intension's. Living in southern OR we read a lot about the mustangs that are being rounded up in near by Nevada then sold at auction for horse meat and what ever. It breaks my heart :heart: and makes me furious :o Some hunters are killing them on the open range in Nevada and other states. We also read an article about a preacher that went to an auction near Reno that said he was purchasing a large group of horses for children at church camps. He turned around and sold them to a plant to be slaughtered for horse meat. This makes me sick and very angry. :o

[OodleyBoodely]

I am saddened that our government signed into law they can now be hunted and rounded up .....This makes me sick and very angry. :o
:( Me, too, Jean. :bawling:

[Jean]

I love horses, Al & I used to drive show hackneys in harness classes in the 70's as a sport.

[OodleyBoodely]

Horses were my first love!:heart: Still are. My family managed to keep 4 horses when I was 10-13, but, we were a military family and moved often and couldn't keep the horses. I only keep horses on my walls now. :foot-tap:

[Jean]

At least you can see them there. The rest are tucked in heart like mine. :heart: I believe, Shirley's are the same way.