Whether it’s dreary out near you (like it is near us) or you’re relaxing on your May Day day off, enjoy another installment of our Birds Make the Art series. This time, we’ve got some beautiful woodcut prints and paintings.
Artwork by Tracey Long
Long, a freelance illustrator, lives in the countryside on the border of England and Wales. “My work is an assortment of eccentric individuals in a variety of guises,” she says, “playful, humorous and a touch surreal.”
Woodcut prints by Jean Smith
After a 30-year hiatus, Smith started painting and printmaking again. She loves color and patterns—something her work makes clear—and through her art, she says she’s attempting to transfer nature’s beauty to a two-dimensional surface.
Paintings by Michele Théberge
“With my art, I aspire to offer a sense of spaciousness, an opening, an invitation to contemplate the nature of life,” Théberge says, “and explore what underlies the material world.” Though she does create art with other materials, she works mostly with watercolor on paper (like the three watercolors below).
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Previous Birds Make the Art posts:
March 21, 2012, artists Ana Jones, PopcaPopca Studio, and Amanda Krauss
February 8, 2012, artist Claire Brewster
December 9, 2011, artists Tina Burke, Tricia Arnold, and Julie Ann Glenzinski
August 26, 2011, artists Tom Toro, Josh Durant, and Dinuk Magammana
June 23, 2011, artists Anne Wertheim, Rob Fulton, and Angela Rizza
February 24, 2011, artists Denise Marks, Mark Armstrong, and Kurt Swanson
Want to see your bird art on the Perch? E-mail Associate Editor Michele Berger at mwberger@audubon.org. Please include “Bird art” in the subject line.
