Tracie Thompson, Artist

The first birdhouse, the Screech Owl House , was so much fun to create (it was work , and a lot of work, but work I truly enjoyed) that I...

The birdhouse project, which has had me quietly singing Birdhouse in Your Soul for the past few days, began with a decorative basswood b...

These are details of a fairly large commission consisting of three wooden panels, each 24" square. I am having the worst time...

The Princess at Home in Her Parlor , two 6"x6" panels with collage, oil paint, colored pencil, wax medium. CLICK TO ENLARGE if y...

Queen Amelia of the Garden, 7 x 10" mixed media on tan cotton paper. So this is a BIG reason why I live where I do. Because thi...

Night Hawk , salvaged objects and materials with polymer clay, oil paint and wax. Tracie Thompson, 12.5" h x 8" w x 5.25" d...

About seven years ago, when my Grandma Thompson was still alive and I was still in Florida, I found several of these little bluebirds h...

I finished it last night, quite late, like the owl I've always been. Any time there are owls in my art, it's got something ...

That's when I first remember drawing owls. I was five. My owl lived in a hollow in a big, dead tree, in the middle of a flat, open, kind...

Happy Sparrow 7, above, and 6, below. Both 10" x 8" mixed media on heavy, 100% cotton paper; available, 300 each unframed. Thes...

Two of four are now finished. Both 10 x 8" and on the same heavy, cotton-fiber paper.  These are birds I've always loved to...

So, you know how this was supposed to be a series of four Sparrows? Yeah, about that ... I was looking for photos of horses (and I foun...

Blue and Gold #3 , above and #4 , below. 10 x 8" and 5 x 7", respectively. These are both sold and I'll miss them, even whi...

Blue and Gold , 10 x 8" mixed media on cotton printmaking paper. Original sold; you can buy prints here . These happened because ...

I wanted at least one of the series to have its wings stretched out, and I wanted another vertical format image, so I'd have two ver...

Happy Sparrow #3 ... Happy Sparrow #3 , 8 x 10", sold The first two Happy Sparrows were based wholly on snapshots I took of bir...

When you make art, it's common for the thing to miss that left turn at Albuquerque -- and take you somewhere you didn't know you wer...

Sorry, folks, but this one got snapped up before I even had a chance to post it! It's the same bird as the first; the two reference p...

SOLD Carried away, in the sense that this was supposed to be another half-hour drawing but it took at least twice that long because, w...

This little guy was eating seed from a china bowl on my balcony when I snapped his picture. That blissed-out expression was more than I co...