Diving Pelican

When I walk the beaches I always look for a very special piece of driftwood that reminds me of something or just looks really cool.  In this case I found a piece from the Russian river outlet that looked like a pelicans head.  What I have found out in the last two art projects is that when they are protruding out from the wall , it breaks the two dimensional plain and really makes a piece pop.  My original design was for the diving pelican to have b attle axes for wings, then that quickly faded to constructing a much more simple work of art.  I always tend to push the boundaries and create something very surreal and well....way out there. Using all of the paints I used in my home, I designed the pelican as if it were diving full speed into the ocean, yet appeared to be inside of a shell.
Yes..that used to be my basketball court..I built that wall, handmade the 15' tall velvet curtains, finished the art piece and painted the new nursery in five days.  It was nice to get out of the house today...guess what I did?