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!