Birds in Art/Art in Birds Entries, 91-100
91. Will West, Blountville, Tennessee, age 10
This drawing in pencil was inspired by the beautiful cardinals we have outside our home. The high rise buildings were drawn to make the image urban.
92. Steven Hoke, Newton, North Carolina
This is an absolutely beautiful bird that screamed to be drawn. I created this picture of an Indigo Bunting from a photograph using colored pencils.
93. Lena Champlin, N. Yarmouth, Maine
I’ve always loved nature and observing the beautiful world around me. I’ve always expressed this love through artwork. I like painting birds because there are so many different kinds and they are colorful and full of expressive movements. I wanted to send you my artwork to share it with other people who love birds.
94. Lari Gibbons, Denton, Texas
I am a visual artist investigating the impact of land development on native wildlife and its habitat through drawn and printed images. My work focuses on the characteristic flora and fauna of the north Texas region.
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95. Donna Greenstein, Ontario, Canada
96. Valencia Kim, Kent, Connecticut
I submitted this painting for the Birds in Art contest because I want to
take a step towards promoting the care of birds in their natural
environment. The inspiration for this painting came from nature. I thought
it would be interesting to see the flowers out of context and to fit them
into the structure of a Flamingo's body.
97. Paxton DeRoma, Oakton, Virginia
This is a piece of art that I call, “Mardi Gras Mallard.” My family is from New Orleans originally, and we celebrate each season with King Cakes, parties, and mardi gras beads and doubloons. This piece of art might be reality should you be in the back swamps of Louisiana late at night in January or February...or so legend has it. Laissez le bon temp roullez!
98. Elsie Dentes
99. Mary DeLia, East Windsor, New Jersey
I wrote this play , "The Sparrow's Gift," for our homeschool group to perform, based on the Japanese folk tale, from the story "The Tongue-Cut Sparrow," in 'What Your 2nd Grader Needs to Know,' edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
Here is a picture of the homeschool kids enacting the play, and a sheet of the music. Please see more about the play, including the script, at this link to homeschooling resources elsewhere on this CUBs web site.
100. Jane Abbott, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
My name is Jane Abbott, and I'm a volunteer and paid member of FLAP (Fatal Light Awareness Program) here in Toronto, Ontario. I am also an artist who makes handmade paper as well as screenprints. We, at FLAP are responsible for helping injured birds during the Spring and Fall migration periods. Living in a city, we have tall glass buildings and unfortunately our songbirds migrating to either their nesting spots in Northern Ontario, or home with fledglings in the fall, hit the glass windows. I answer the calls that come into our pager and send out our volunteers to help the injured bird, or to pick up the dead which we cite in our database at FLAP. As you may well be aware, we record up to 2000 hits per season, and our focus is also to educate and to bring an awareness to the public and business owners of the risk of keeping lights on at nights when the birds migrate by the stars and moon. The birds we often see are not indigenous to our city, Toronto, and we see beautiful birds coming from South America or further away from other states in the U.S.
On the last day of our migration period last November, 08, I found this beautiful, blue Dark-eyed Junco downtown on the sidewalk by a tall building. I was moved to tears, this being the unlikely location for a 'hit' and so late in the season. I took pictures of this delicate little bird and created several photoscreen prints of it. This is what I'm submitting here. In memory of all our little songbirds that don't make it home.
