At last, I’ve finished that painting I’ve been working on since March.
It just sat there on top of my currently non-functioning speakers for the last few weeks waiting for me to finish the dreadful details and yesterday I finally got it done.

The story sort of goes like “FIRE! I go out the window, you take the teddy bear and the fire escape!”

I don’t know what happens to the spiders, I don’t even know what they’re doing in the painting, just a scare-factor I guess, and they probably burn at the end of the story.

Acrylics on aquarel paper, 30×40 centimeters. Simply click it for an enlargement.

As for Frankie related news, the little pigeon is 3 weeks old now and I’m a bit worried. He doesn’t seem to be very active. I mean, Bailey (the baby pigeon from 2007) seemed a very healthy and alert pigeon when he was about 3 weeks old; when he’d spot me, he would stand up, hiss and try to get away without leaving the nest.
You know, a nervous, alert little pigeon, which has always – to me – been the description of a healthy pigeon.

But I worry about Frankie, because he doesn’t flinch at all when he sees me, nor does he hiss at me or stand up to get away, he just sits there, sometimes he looks up at me, but that’s about as active as he gets upon seeing me. I’ve never pet him or picked him up – I’m too scared his parents will abandon him or something.
So I don’t really think he’s gotten used to my presence; I do check on him every day and spend around 5-10 minutes near him to take pictures at least twice a day, (I did that with Bailey once a day, and he never got used to me.)
But, I wonder if Frankie’s okay – I don’t even know if he ever walks around on the balcony, between 3 and 8 pm he doesn’t, that’s when I check on him – I’m asleep from 6am to 2pm, so I don’t know what happens during those hours – but I’m a little worried if this is normal behavior for a 3 week old pigeon. Maybe I’m worried for nothing and maybe he is somewhat used to me, but I don’t know a lot about pigeons, so if anyone has any pigeon wisdom, please do share!