Nesting

No painting yet—I’m letting that plaque simmer down after finally getting a coat of paint on it that I can be happy with, but I did build a little nest, just for you!

“Nido,” 5 x 5 inches, pen and ink, prints available in my shop, ask if you’re interested in the original

Nido (nee-dough) is the Italian (and Spanish) word for nest. I think it is one of those words that just sounds so much like the thing—intimate and cozy.

Could this be the beginning of an alphabet series? Perhaps, although that wasn’t my first intention, and there are a whole lot of letters in the alphabet—so I’m being non-committal for now. It is a little odd to start with the letter “n,” but that disorganization might be just the right amount of chaos to intrigue me to continue. Starting with “a” would feel so heavy and orderly. Doing a random series of letters (hoping to eventually cover them all) could be fun.

Honestly, I was looking for an excuse to do another drawing with a natural-looking border, then a nest popped into my head, and it sounded like fun to build a nest with lines. Then the Italian word followed, then the feeling that the nest should be on the bottom left. I wasn’t sure if I would include the actual word in the drawing until I put it on paper, but it just needed something to balance the nest out.

What fun I’m having today! First, I took a mental trip to Australia and South Africa along with some prints I’m sending out, then I built a nest, and now I’m off for a bike ride to run errands. Woohoo! How could my Thursday art day ever get old?