pinterest love: birds & feathers

Sharing more of my Pinterest pins - this week from my "birds and feathers" board.  It's a motif I love and keep planning to incorporate more of so check it out for some inspiration.



Collage bird by Animal House Art, ETSY



Love these loose feathers (watercolor?) - no link info

  found on My Revelment which isn't much help, but I love the variety of fills and soft colors - could be a cool repeating pattern.




Here's a happy journal page (and good advice in the text)! By Birgit Koopsen - looks like a generous use of stamping, stenciling, maybe some gelli plate pieces, collage, etc. Fun page.

  By Lisa Lamoreaux, a Renton, WA artist but her blogs appear to be shut down now.  You can google her name and see some other examples of her work.

  Here's an inspiring bird to mimic...all those polka dots! - it's a Northern Flicker.  (it was hard not to type Flickr - amazing how these sites get into our lexicon!)

  Great command of watercolor blending! By John Ichter


Fun idea to draw/paint/doodle on a piece of ephemera.

  No artist info - love the use of doodles to make very interpretive feathers.

If you recognize any of my unidentified artist pieces, let me know and I'll update the post.  Do you have some favorite bird pins that you look to for inspiration?

photography: spotted - animals

Hanna has a great idea (one of many good ideas! - sorry I forgot to link to you earlier!) - periodically she trolls back through her photos and "spots", notices themes or similarities in style in her photos.  Over the next few months she's encouraging us to do the same - follow her monthly theme and see what's lurking in your photo stacks.  I keep, sort, and tag my photos in PSE so here are a few of my favorite animal photos.  Thanks for the encouragement excuse to share some of my pics!

Taken in St. Augustine, FL, this peacock is going all out to impress the lady - wonder if it worked?

Hiking along a river in Oregon we managed pictures of a number of critters and birds......

 Dan feeding deer that came right up to our condo deck while vacationing in Oregon.

Our cat, Tigger.

And to wrap up my animal round up, here's one I took of my mother-in-law with her horse a few years ago.

Take a minute and scour through your images......what are some of your favorite animal pics?

Oh, had to share just one more; it is summertime after all!