His Eye Is On The Sparrow %%

I discovered a brilliant artist on Olioboard. His name is Dolan Geiman and I love his contemporary artwork using different mediums. However, on my shoestring budget, I couldn’t afford the print I wanted SO bad. I think the original was over $600.

This piece is called “Perched Bird Art Print on Paper, Bluebird.” I found his reprints on etsy, but still the price was too steep for me, so I thought, how can I recreate what he captured so beautifully? I went through some old pictures I had. I found an old Parisian print I had for years that I purchased on clearance for $8. It was poster on thin MDF type wood with a frame.

I was so excited to try my own hand at this. Here’s how it turned out.

I painted over the Parisian building with some watered down oops paint we had on hand. I left it sheer so that the buildings barely shown in my attempt to mimic his painting knife strokes (impasto).

Of course, I had tons ‘o left over sheet music that I used to create the tree. It was so fun carving the trunk and branches with the scissors! I mod podge’d the paper over the brown paint.

I changed the Bluebird to a Sparrow, since that is one of my favorite verses that means a lot to me.

I finger painted the word ‘Sparrow’ and I used blue to tie in my other decor.

I love that I was able to recreate something that inspired me and add my own twist to it to make it more personal to me. It was all free with the supplies I had on hand! Love that!!!