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Birds!
Perching Birds
Shorebirds
Dinner Birds
Water Birds
Shore/ Ocean Birds
Predatory Birds
Open Ocean Birds
Flightless Birds
John James Audubon
(1785-1851)
Watercolor and ink on paper
Audubon’s Birds of America: A collection of 435 life-size hand-tinted copper-plate etchings. (The book had images of every known bird in America at the time.)
(1820s-1830’s)
Barn Owls
Aquatint and engraving with watercolor additions (1833)
Golden Eagle
Aquatint and engraving with watercolor additions (1833)
White Gerfalcons
Brown Pelican, 1827-1838
(Engraving made in England after Audubon’s original watercolor.)
Ivory Billed Woodpecker
Oil on canvas, 1830-31
Ito Jakuchu18th Century Japanese
Chickens, 1761-1765
Chickens were bred for their decorative plumage in Japan. These chickens are fanciful composites of different breeds—at variance with Jakuchu’s usual fidelity to exacting morphological description.
Plum Blossoms and Cranes, 1761-1765
(Cranes symbolize longevity in Japanese culture.)
Golden Pheasants in Snow, 1761-65
(Pheasants symbolize scholarly pursuits, among other things.)
Maple Tree and Small Birds, 1765-66
Mandarin Ducks in the Snow, 1759
(Mandarin ducks served as symbols of marital harmony in Japanese culture.)
Kathryn Spence (Contemporary American)
Burrowing Owls
Kathryn Spence
(Great Horned Owl)
Kathryn Spence
(American Kestrel)
Maurizio Cattelan’s Pigeon sculptures at the Rubell Collection in Miami
Student work: pen and ink and brush and ink
Student work:Pen, brush, ink and Prismacolor
Student work:Pen, brush, ink and Prismacolor
Student work:Prismacolor
Student work: Graphite
Student work:Graphite and Prismacolor
Student work: pen and ink and brush and ink
Student work:charcoal
Ok—let’s draw the specimens!