Pirate Cutie

For the Girls Drawin Girls blog theme!

P is for parrot

Sorry for the backlog- had an insanely busy weekend!

This is Saturday's drawing...

Recent art!

I realized I haven't had a chance to post some of my recent pieces: The girl with the two parrots is currently on display at Cactus Gallery in Eagle Rock, and I originally made the swan lake piece for a visual music themed show, but my friend bought it immediately after I made it, so hey! : D

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29945203@N04/3348511478/in/set-72157614816372036/ 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29945203@N04/3347672323/ 

Saturday, Feb 21

Another pass at the girl with two parrots...

Friday, Feb 20, 2009

Another roller skating cutie and a colored pencil study!

Parrot girl

Totally stuck on a girl/animal theme lately- sorry for the redundancy. Sure I'll move on to another topic at some point, but I'm just working it out of my system! ; )

The strange and fabulous Kakapo parrot

I was watching a fantastic BBC show called "The Life of Birds," by David Attenborough, and there was this segment on the New Zealand Kakapo. Coincidentally, there was a chapter in Douglas Adam's book, "Last Chance to See" about the same parrot; between the time Adams wrote the book and the documentary, the parrot has had a glimmer of hope in its comeback (meaning; thought to be extinct to 86 known surviving parrots left).

Anyway, these little guys are fascinating- they're nocturnal, flightless, and the males have these bowls that they carve out of rock/earth that they use to amplify a large "boom" noise across mountain tops and valleys that they make to attract females. And they also have little whisker like feathers around their beaks. Crazy!

Learn more about these birds (and what's being done to save them!) here