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uwmspeccoll · 1 year ago
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A Bullfinch Feathursday
The colorful Eurasian Bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) is a strikingly beautiful bird to encounter. but it is not always the most welcome in orchards because of their preferred foods: berries and the buds of fruit trees. These images are from paintings by the British bird artist Terance James Bond as reproduced in our folio volume Birds, The Paintings of Terance James Bond, published in Cambridge, England, by the Lutterworth Press in 1988. Of the Bullfinch and its depiction, Bond writes:
Bullfinches and fruit trees do not mix, or rather they do, and that is the problem. . . . Bullfinches love buds. The name Bullfinch is probably a corruption of the words bud finch. . . . A pair of these lovely little birds can cause havoc on a fruit tree in a very short time, and several pairs over a period of a couple of weeks can destroy the potential fruit crop of an entire orchard. [B]y illustrating the species in a setting of pear blossoms, I would seem to be confirming the Bullfinch's regrettable behaviour. . . . The bright pink breast of the cock is so vivid and of such an isolated pigment range, that there is very little that can be utilised as background without a terrible clash of colour. White is the obvious choice and so is pale green, both are tints that harmonise well with pink. So in the end I chose the bird's favourite tree as the basis of composition.
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z13lovebot · 2 months ago
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Go fish
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the-cricket-chirps · 1 year ago
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Jamie Wyeth
Envy -The Seven Deadly Sins
2005
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collectionstilllife · 8 months ago
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Adrien Moreau (French, 1843-1906) • Large Still Life with Parrot • 1873
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frankietankbaker · 2 months ago
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Here's a painting I recently did. This one's for my old man
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liturgical-agenda · 2 years ago
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Swans, 1859 by Ferdinand von Wright
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pintoras · 2 years ago
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Helene Tüpke-Grande (Polish, 1871-1946): [No title] (via Düsseldorfer Auktionshaus)
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ahit-oc-corner · 10 months ago
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Thank you @harlowehearse for this idea and @chocowhomps as well for the continuation for this >:] Lurker - @chocowhomps
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o-sharkpop-o · 3 months ago
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that fuckin bird that i hate
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random-brushstrokes · 7 months ago
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Józefa Wnukowa - "Narada" from the series "Birds" (1985)
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solcattus · 11 months ago
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Great White Herons, 1923
By Frank Weston Benson
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uwmspeccoll · 1 year ago
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A Falco Feathursday
This Feathursday we showcase three of the smallest falcons in Europe and America: the Eurasian Hobby (Falco subbuteo), Common Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus), and American Kestrel (Falco sparverius). All are in the genus Falco, and all occupy a similar niche within the falcon genus, although the Hobby is more falconesque in its hunting behavior. The American Kestrel, however, may not be a true kestrel, but seems more closely related to other North American falcons.
These paintings are by the British bird artist Terance James Bond and are reproduced in our folio volume Birds, The Paintings of Terance James Bond, published in Cambridge, England, by the Lutterworth Press in 1988. Of his painting of the American Kestrel, Bond writes:
The species . . . can be found in parkland, farmland, and the margins of towns and villages [and cities!]. To hint at this association with modern man I have chosen to illustrate my male bird against a setting of sawn logs. This I feel works very well, the firewood is a perfectly natural element but the presence of civilised man is suggested through the obviously unnatural arrangement of the timber. The bird could be sunning itself in somebody's farmyard or rural garden and has taken advantage of the perching point whilst it sits and waits for the arrival of a potential snack.
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marejadilla · 2 months ago
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Fatima Ronquillo, “The Nightingale and the Rose”, oil on panel ©️2023 Self-taught painter. Philippines,1976. Emigrated as a child to the United States in 1987 where her family settled in San Antonio, Texas.
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the-cricket-chirps · 1 year ago
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Vincent van Gogh
Kingfisher by the Waterside
Paris, July-August 1887
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collectionstilllife · 9 months ago
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Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (Austrian,1793-1865) • Fruit still life with an Amazon parrot • 1824
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dark-longings · 2 months ago
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Erwachen (Adler), 1908. Karl Huck.
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