Feather, Fiber & Fauna

birds, stitch & more

[walking-geema]

Red-winged blackbird

[shitpostsampler]

Thanks to our favorite cryptid for the inspiration on this one!

[great-and-small]

The red-winged blackbird’s song is deeply comforting and familiar it’s like walking into the marsh and hearing an old friend

[chrismakesit]

After my Mom passed away in 2001, I inherited a vintage porcelain cup and saucer she’d snagged at a flea market. Earlier this year, I participated in a Community Stitch Challenge put together by TextileArtist.org’s Joe Pitcher. One challenge, from Cas Holmes, was to do a collage of an object of personal significance. This was my entry.

The cup and saucer are used, dried, flattened tea bags. Other fabric came from a friends’ mother’s stash of cloth napkins, eco-dyed and stamped.

[absinthundblut]

[artist-kandinsky]

Tempered Elan, Wassily Kandinsky

Medium: oil,cardboard

[ostdrossel]

This is some serious focus.

[artist-kandinsky]

Black strokes I, 1913, Wassily Kandinsky

Size: 131.1x129.4 cm Medium: oil on canvas

[silverhawk]

u ever just see an animal n ur like “yeah thats perfectly named” bc

this is the violet-crowned woodnymph n like. yeah thats right

[david-burliuk]

Abstraction, David Burliuk

Medium: oil,canvas

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[artist-kandinsky]

Sky Blue, Wassily Kandinsky

Medium: oil,canvas

[rockjumperbirdingtours]

Photo of the Day – The Broad-billed Roller (Eurystomus glaucurus) breeds across tropical Africa and Madagascar in all but the driest regions. Preferring open woodlands, they often perch prominently on trees, posts or overhead wires and remain inactive throughout most of the day, often hunting in the late afternoon.

This photo was taken by Rich Lindie in Madagascar

[artist-kandinsky]

Blue segment, Wassily Kandinsky

[artist-klee]

Insula Dulcamara, Paul Klee

Medium: oil

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

old books

[smithsonianlibrariesarchives]

This group of illustrated birds may look very diverse, but they share a connection: they were all drawn and lithographed by Elizabeth Gould. Her work is often obscured by that of her husband, John Gould, an ornithologist and publisher guilty of taking credit for his wife’s artistry. @book-historia delves into the life and art of the talented but severely under-appreciated Elizabeth on our blog.

Sources:

1, 2, 3: A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains 4: Birds of Europe 5: The Zoology of the Voyage of the H. M. S. Beagle (Birds)