Here are eight birds for your entertainment and delight.
Tara Hamilton: I Am Not a Chicken. Watercolor. [This is a sparrow Tara saw outside a coffee shop, but the sparrow looked like a chicken.]Anne Shields: Male Lesser Prairie Chicken. Pastel. [This bird IS a chicken. He is doing his spring mating ritual of prancing and jumping and dancing at sunrise, while “booming,” which is calling out his distinctive mating sound. Click here for a video with sound.]Carolyn Rondthaler: Red-Headed Woodpecker. Watercolor.Karen Van Allen: Heron. Graphite, pastel, and charcoal on paper.Nancy Arbuthnot: Phoebe among Purple Fringed Orchids along Park Central Road in Catoctin Mountain Park, Thurmont, Maryland. Watercolor. [Nancy was artist in residence in May at the Catoctin Forest Alliance Artist in Residence Program. This was part of her “Catoctin alphabet project”–she was up to the P’s.]Tom Eichenberger: Bluejay. Acrylic.Andrew Armstrong. Green Crane (from my imagination). Watercolor.Marian Wiseman: Sandhill Crane (in the yard at Inverness, Florida). Colored pencil.
Marian Wiseman Watercolorist
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