Dancing Vulture

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I like and do a lot of things! Here you'll find: fiber art - birds - bugs - nature - mountains - rivers - lifting - kitties

A pair of needle-felted Great Blue Herons in a nest in progress. This is a mixed fiber art piece in an embroidery hoop.
A needle-felted Great Horned Owl mama with babies in an old Great Blue Heron nest. The nest is made with yarn, embroidery floss, wool, and wire. The entire piece is sewn into light blue fabric on an embroidery hoop.
A mixed fiber art piece in progress in an embroidery hoop. A Great Horned Owl mama with her 2 sleepy babies, perched in an old Great Blue Heron nest.
A needle-felted Great Horned Owl mama in an old Great Blue Heron nest. The nest isn't done yet, but it's embroidered with yarn and embroidery floss
Two embroidery hoops with blue fabric inside. One has 2 herons half-felted plopped on top, and the other has half a felted owl sitting in a triangle that's mostly felted wool with a triangle of wool felt sewn on the top layer. Haha hmmm
Needle-felted Mountain, Boreal, Black-capped, Carolina, and Chestnut-sided Chickadees perched on felted branches over a painted blue background on a wooden plaque.
Needle-felted Mountain, Boreal, Black-capped, Carolina, and Chestnut-backed Chickadees perched on felted branches on a circular wooden background. Not finished yet!
A Great Horned Owl sitting on her nest, which was a previous Great Blue Heron nest.
A turkey vulture bust, wearing glasses with a felting needle in her beak. She is surrounded by feathers and wool
A black cat (Bobo) inspecting my Copic markers
A very wonky attempt at digitally coloring traditional line art for a sticker. A turkey vulture bust with glasses, holding a felting needle, and surrounded by feathers and wool.
A turkey vulture plush checking out Opal, a black cat. She is unphased by my shenanigans
The view from summit. Sun wasn't out in full force yet but the gap is beautiful
A turkey vulture perched in a dead tree.
A needle-felted Yellow-headed Blackbird in progress
A needle-felted female Wood Duck in flight
A needle-felted Wood Duck drake in flight
A black cat (Turbo, aka "Bobo") sits in my lap staring up at me
A Yellow-headed Blackbird on the side of a gravel path at Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge in Washington.
A northern water snake sitting on a blue kayak
A pair of needle-felted Wood Ducks in progress.
A pair of needle-felted Wood Ducks in progress
A needle-felted male wood duck in progress. He's flying to the left.
A pair of needle-felted wood ducks in progress
A pair of male and female wood ducks in progress. Their bills are sculpted from apoxie clay and painted with acrylics, while their eyes are doll eyes and the rest of them are needle-felted wool.
A pair of needle-felted birds in progress. They look kind of horrific at this stage. Bills are sculpted and curing in front of them
A needle-felted Red-tailed Hawk flying to the left. The view is ventral, with a visible belly band and subtle red in the tail
A needle-felted Lark Sparrow
I submitted my Short-eared Owl to the show. This year was in memory of her birthday and how influential she was for us all. I thought she would have loved to see this piece in person, since she loved my photos from the time I saw one last year. Well, my owl was hung without any indication of who made it. No tag, nothing.
A black cat (Opal) sitting on my lap. She had water droplets on her chin because she drinks out of a people cup by dunking her entire chin into the water.
A needle-felted Red-tailed Hawk in progress
A line of little needle-felted chickadees in progress- from left to right: Mountain, Boreal, Black-capped, Carolina, and Chestnut-backed!
A lineup of little needle-felted chickadees in progress. Eventually they'll be Mountain, Boreal, Black-capped, Carolina, and Chestnut-backed Chickadees! Right now they are borbs with their chin and cap markings, lol.
A boreal chickadee painted in soil and clay based paints. He stands perched on a branch, facing right. Referenced from an image from Cornell.
A needle-felted Horned Lark. He is facing right, standing tall
A needle-felted Horned Lark in progress, standing on my crochet bag on a picnic table.
A wall of needle-felted raptors! From left to right: Broad-winged Hawk, Osprey, Red-shouldered Hawk, Goshawk. Below is a Hawk Mountain Sanctuary themed pop-up book and nest box with pair of American Kestrels.
A needle-felted Horned Lark in progress. He is standing tall with his little horns up, but he looks a little nervous? Is he okay?
A needle-felted Red-tailed Hawk in progress. It's in mid flight, in ventral view, flying left.
A needle-felted American Woodcock. He is mid-peent!
An unfinished needle-felted bird, standing with his beak pointed upward.
Opal, a black cat, laying on me in bed. I'm stuck here forever.
A cell-phone binocular pic of a Pied-billed Grebe swimming away from the camera, looking over their shoulder at me like "stop looking at my fluffy butt you weirdo"
A bunch of doodles of a Great Horned Owl mama and pair of Great Blue Herons I'm monitoring. One is a very silly doodle of the owl knitting on her nest while the herons are lovey dovey. Also featured, vulture me in a giant sweater.
An embroidery piece. It's religious iconography of an anthropomorphic turkey vulture with a staff that has a heart in the head of it. The piece looks like stained glass.
The nose of my blue kayak is in the foreground. The Delaware River is high but mellow. Bare trees line both shores and a light fog blurs the scenery. Mr. Wolverine paddles ahead of me.
4 needle-felted raptors in flight (Goshawk, Broad-winged Hawk, Red-shouldered Hawk, and Osprey) and 1 pair of American Kestrels at a nest box. They're all hanging on my studio closet doors.
A Great-Horned Owl in a nest
A Great-Horned Owl in an old Great Blue Heron nest
A needle-felted American Woodcock on a desk. He's standing tall with his beak open. I hope you can hear his PEENTing in your head!
A cute black cat with a white chest spot stares into the camera
A needle-felted American Woodcock in progress. He's missing his wings and tail, along with some more beak work and touchups.
A needle-felted American Woodcock in progress. He is mid-peent, with his wire legs and beak showing.
A cobweb broom propped up against a door. It has a brown handle and is woven with green twine. Also it's friggen cute okay
A needle-felted female Snow Bunting in winter plumage.