The problem is that not everything I do fits so neatly into one of these categories. Sometimes I paint and draw other things. Sometimes these things are visual anomalies and sometimes only the first one is. The first cow I ever painted was an anomaly until it was followed by 100 or so more.
I have decided to start a category of images that fall into this category, an island of misfit toys in a way. These will be paintings that at the time of posting, aren't on my website and aren't really under active scrutiny by me. They are studies for things I don't know I am studying yet.
Ed's Blackbird is just such an image. I lived in Norwood Ohio while in graduate school at the University of Cincinnati. I lived in a house with my wife's grandfather. It was an old house and the room I lived in, had this funky peach/pink felt wallpaper. The wallpaper was falling off the wall and I kept a piece that hit the floor during my stay and recently decided to turn it into a mixed media painting/drawing in combination with a drawing I had done at some point when I was fairly obsessed with red wing blackbirds. The result was this work titled "Ed's Blackbird." I have shown this before in conjunction with Travis Townsend as a Smith Townsend Collaborative "part" to one of our larger things.