I see cardinals almost every day in the winter and occasionally in the summer when they come to our feeders. They truly are beautiful and your paper piecing came out very nice.
Your cardinal is stunning...the depth you get with your paper painting is Incredible! If you made a 5 hour video I would watch and savor every minute! I like the music too.
I really enjoy watching you paper paint. I think you have a lot of patience to do it and I find it very interesting to watch you make beautiful artwork from it. Thank you so much for sharing.
Live in North Carolina! Cardinal is our state bird and we have them year round! I have bird feeders in my back yard and they come everyday! My favorite bird because my favorite color is red! Love your technique!
We see them all the time, especially if you put out Black Oil Sunflower seed in a feeder. There’s an old folklore in the south that if you see a Cardinal, it means it’s someone you love who has passed on letting you know they are near. I think some people actually believe it. They are beautiful and seem to look you right in the eye and seem to have funny expressions. Your painting is beautiful.
Thank you Ramona :) Someone else mentioned that folklore as well. I hear the same about butterflies and we were visiting a friend who has passed on at the cemetery the other week and a single monarch butterfly flew right near us. It was unusual and made me kind of believe.
Shel, Dont let time on your videos worry you so much, true fans will watch and stay❣ Love cardinals there our state bird in NC we see them a lot here. Mucho hugzzzzzzz my friend ❤❤
Hello Shel, I love your cardinal. I have a cardinal that visits my back yard. I save printed envelopes too. I think I have found a kindred spirit. Have a beautiful day!
Again, thank you, Shel C for a great video. I love cardinals. We see a lot of them here in Illinois. In the winter, too. But not right now-it’s just too cold. So the Cardinal is the State Bird here and Illinois State University’s mascot is the “Red Bird”. My granddaughter goes to college there. I’d love to make something like this. I love collage, too. Great rendition of our bird friend the cardinal. BTW, my husband is saving our mail envelopes for the blue designs. He just started this yesterday. Yay!!!
Thank you Ruth Ann :) It sounds like a cardinal would be a perfect subject for your art! Those envelopes have lots of fun patterns and come in black and also even a few red so enjoy his collection LOL
Our temps here in Ohio are hovering below and just above zero so it is freeeeeezing cold! We do get lots of cardinals at this time of the year and they are easy to spot due to the snow everywhere which causes them to pop out of the background. Gorgeous paper painted collage of a cardinal, Shel! TFS! Shared on my FB group page, Roberta's Artistic Adventures!
Love your vids, dont mind longer times but may have to start and stop so that may mess with your YT numbers and viewing but i do always watch and often several times. CARDINALS are beautiful! Everyone does the male but the Females are just as stunning. Both actually have a grey undertone here in PA which is more visible from behind. They enjoy seed feeders so we are fortunate to see them daily here ALL year. Folklore here says when you see a Cardinal it is a loved one from beyond dropping in and checking on you. Lovely as always Shel
Thank you Tricia :) It would be fun to having the red color at the feeders. All our desert birds are mostly brown and grey with maybe a little yellow. I have heard that butterflies are visits from passed loved ones. The other day we stopped to visit a friend at the cemetery and a single monarch butterfly flew right near us. In the Winter! Makes you believe.
Hi Shel. I love your bright cardinal. I had to chuckle a few weeks ago when I was looking at a digital paper kit I had printed out. Over all I loved the paper but it was a digital collage and the artist had placed some animals on snow and didn't put any shadows around them. I've been watching you for so long that my eye has finally learned to see that as a no-no, where before I would miss that. It does look just pasted on.
This is delightful! I love cardinals and have a pair that resides in the woods near my house. They come to the feeders on my deck throughout the day and I LOVE watching them. I have a plethora of birds, tufted titmice, black cap chickadees, Downy and Hairy woodpeckers, American Goldfinch, red breasted nuthatches, and white breasted nuthatches, house finches that have some cheery red on their otherwise dull brown features...I know I'm missing some of my regulars. I'm 'the mama' that feeds them all the time and they'll scold me if I let the feeders get too low. I have blue jays and crows too...love crows, though they don't come to the feeders. Since I became disabled and had to quit work in my late 50s, I've really become attached to my songbirds. You did a great job with this...so very cool!
Oh so fun to watch all the birdies! I bet they do get whiny when you don't get the feeder filled soon enough LOL. I mostly have mourning doves and quail and occasionally a road runner or some sort of hawk or owl. But I don't have the proper seed feeder so I need to work on that!
@@ShelCPaperOcotilloStudio I don't have quail near me, but lots of mourning doves and they will get into the feeders if there is nothing on the ground. They prefer to clean up the seed on the ground that the other birds scatter from the feeders. I watched Mrs. Cardinal chase her mister around this morning and it was so funny to watch them. I couldn't tell if they were being playful or whether there were some domestic disputes going on, but his bobbing and weaving through the snow made for a colorful display :)
Oh I would have love to have seen those bright cardinals swooping around against the white snow. I bet he laid one on last night and was getting a good scolding! LOL
@@ShelCPaperOcotilloStudio Could very well be the case because she chased him out of the bottom of a pine at one point and he did a belly flop in the deeper snow and disappeared for a moment before he pulled himself back out and took off across the roads into the woods with her hot on his tail feathers LOL. Then a couple of minutes later she came zooming out of the woods to the feeder to refuel her spent energy. I'm wondering if the whole event wasn't a dispute over who got first dibs on the feeders to begin with. The male and female rarely, if ever, show up at the feeders at the same time....around the same time, but I can't recall ever seeing them together. It's caught my attention before that I never see them as a pair, which I have seen in other male/female varieties of bird.
So beautiful! =) I have not been around youtube as much lately, and you have been missed. I LOVE this piece. My favorite bird, one I miss from when I was back east. You did him great justice! I love how you used the envelopes in the background...brilliant! I love how your mom saved them for you. That sounds like something my mom would have done, and likely still would if she were still around. =) Our moms are/were so thoughtful. I also loved the dimension of the snow! Your paper-piecing art is my favorite. Thanks as always for all you share, =) Kat
Shel, cardinals are one of my favorite things! There are a few that visit our bird-feeder in our backyard (in CT) every day! They are so gorgeous! I loved your video, your collage is beautiful! I need to try this! Thanks!!
Thanks Shel. I did enjoy the video and your awesome narration explaining the process and different facts about the subject. I’ve never seen a cardinal but admire the pictures of them. 😀
Have you seen a koala, kangaroo, wallaby, wombat, echidna, crocodile, kookaburra, goanna, emu, galah, cockatoo, budgerigar, platypus, dingo, bilby, bandicoot, brolga, cassowary, frilled neck lizard, ibis, lyre bird, numbat, quokka, quoll, Tasmanian devil, wallaroo, sugar glider etc. Lol. There’s a few there I don’t recall seeing myself. 😂 Come for a visit one day and get the first hand , up close experience. Some of your animals, I’ve only seen in museum situations. A few years back we were staying at Zion National Park and there was a fabulous stuffed animal display. Awesome! We were astounded at the size of a moose and really appreciated the size of a grizzly when standing beside it. 😀
I'm a native Arizonan, and have seen numerous Northern Cardinals here. Boyce Thompson Arboretum near the Miami/Globe area is a great place to see them, as well as the Tucson area and others. They are quite stunning, so if you get a chance, get out to see some.
Cardinals have always been one of my favorite birds. I always recognize their chirps and sometimes their songs. You'd like the more subtle female cardinals as well, with taupe and subtle red feathers. She has a crown like her male counterpart. If I'm not mistaken, I think the males help with bringing up babies. Cardinals love sunflower seeds, and don't migrate where I live in southern Maryland. It is always so much fun to watch you assemble your paint collages. Now you'll have to create another picture of a female cardinal facing the male. Best wishes, Dianna
Lovely!! I think it turned out beautiful ❤️ and yes I’m glad you think to limit video time, because 30 minutes is usually my limit to watch any video because I have limited internet time :) TFS! Judy❤️
Hi Shel, fabulous paper painting again. We don't have Cardinals in Britain either so I have never seen one. I have to say yours looks great though. I liked the way you made the background look fuzzy too. Take care. X
Great paper painting Shel ❤️ I doubt I will ever see a cardinal as we don’t have them in Australia ☹️ Your snowy berries reminded me of a Lolly we have called strawberry creams and made me crave lollies 🍬 😂
Beautiful, love birds. I believe cardinals are eastern birds, I saw some when I was vacationing in Florida many years ago. I am currently vacationing in Palm Springs and saw a small black crested bird I am not familiar with, I wonder what he was? Gorgeous piece Shel!
Reny, for longer videos, you can change the speed setting so the videos play faster. I do that with 90% of videos I watch and slow down for techniques or info I want to get. Click on the gear icon in the lower left corner of the video and scroll to 1.25, 1.5 or even 2. Let me know if that helps you out.
Brilliant to add the stamps. That empty spot bothered me too. I got confused about ordering from Amazon with some pennies going to you when you mentioned a code in a video recently. I order my Iams old dog food by going to a video, clicking on something you reference I want, then placing my order. If I don't order the item you reference, does that mean you don't get credit from my dogfood order? Thanks for another great video.
Beautiful paper painting. Your cardinal is awesome. I almost always post your art to my Pinterest mixed media board. I was wondering if it would work composition wise to put more branches at the top, as if he is in the middle of the tree?
Thank you Debbie :) yes, I thought of that as my first option and then I just did not want to make more berries. I am not myself in the Winter and I have to force myself to work in the studio... patience is at a minimum. I have a collection of interesting postage stamps so why not use them LOL
@@ShelCPaperOcotilloStudio I HATE being cold. I moved back to Florida because of cold ( and snow ) The cold front in the NE is letting our temps down to freezing tonight, and I am not happy myself.
@@bonnerdebbie For me it is the dark. Everything is just bleak and the colors are not bright. The light is wrong. Makes me sad and I don't want to get out of bed at all.
@@ShelCPaperOcotilloStudio You hide it very well. Sounds like you may have some SAD, I do and it makes the winter difficult. I am hoping for an early spring myself!
Yes, I have been diagnosed with SAD but I refuse medication. That stuff hides your real feelings and I can control myself with using art making as a therapy tool.
You are absolutely amazing with your paper paintings, so very cool. Your technique using the deli paper is brilliant. Enjoyed this Shel. PS. Please check your e mail. : )
