The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk W. Johnson In the 1990 movie “The Freshman” a young NYU student becomes involved in a crime ring that charges rich people a million dollars to eat an endangered animal. I remember thinking that was a pretty far-fetched plot. After …
Tag: bird
Aug 12
Book Review: The Merciful Crow
The Merciful Crow by Margaret Owen Honestly, I picked this book because I’m a sucker for corvids. Anything related to crows or ravens automatically gets my attention. A fantasy novel in which people are divided into castes based on birds? Wow, it’s like it was written just for me. Owen seems to have based her …
Jun 04
Two Birds Postcard
I think my original intent was to cut these birds out afterwards and paste them onto another piece of paper, but I never did. The feet are always problematic. I’m not even sure what kind of birds these are. A jay and a…something. I altered the colors based on “inks that I own that aren’t …
Apr 06
Magpie Postcard
This is another postcard where I sketched the bird on the printed-resist paper and then filled it in with ink later. You can see the script in the magpie’s wing. I used white ink on the white patch on the wing and the neck and tail, but it’s very difficult to tell, which makes me …