Bluebird on Napkin

 8 x 10,  oil on canvas 

birdxbird benefit auction 

This painting and the hummingbird painting a few posts back will both be at the birdxbird show and benefit auction.  Birdxbird is a non-profit organization based in Minneapolis that links the collective action of artists to organizations dedicated to the stewardship of avian species and the ecoliteracy of the human being.  Check out their web-site, birdxbird.org.  I hope some of you can make the auction, it will on February 21st at the Northrup King Building in Minneapolis and should  be quite an event!

These two paintings are memorials to birds that have died on our farm. In the past whenever I have found a dead bird (often they have hit a window, which I can't stand), I take it out to the tall weeds under trees for its final resting spot. Lately I have been wanting to do something more, and have started on this series of bird memorials.