Friends & Feathers

Will Barnet

Last week our cockatoo friend Viola went back to her home.

Even though she could be as demanding as a toddler (and much louder),

most of the time her presence was delightful and very entertaining.

By the way, I didn't know that cockatoos love cuddles so much!

Seba fell completely under her spell, and after taking dozens of photos

he has already created two portraits of Viola, one of which now hangs 

where her cage used to stand. This post is dedicated to him and to 

all bird lovers, and naturally to our beautiful feathered friends.

Karolin Schnoor

Aris Moore, thanks to Art Found Out

Alberto Macone

Beatrice Alemagna, illustration from Jo singe garçon

Susumu Fujimoto

Bobi Bobi

Elsa Mora

René and Radka

Andrey Remnev

 Clive Hicks-Jenkins, Kevin and the blackbird's nest

Dilka Bear, New Moon, thanks to magpie and whiskeyjack

Michael Shapcott

 GrapeFrogg, You Could Stay There

Sunday Safari - Four & Twenty Black Birds

Actually, if you count them all they are even more,

from Rooks and Ravens to Blackbirds and Crows.

A big flock for our last Winter Safari.

Welcome Spring!

Rooks in Ginko Tree by Diana Sudyka

Les Corbeaux de Pearblossom cover by Beatrice Alemagna

Cria Cuervos Cuban movie poster by Eduardo Munoz Bachs, 1977

Two works from Raven by Emmanuel Polanco

Raven by Lisa Congdon

Blackbird's nest by Joe McLaren

Blackbirds by Jantze Tullet, thanks to The Art Room Plant

Crow by Sebastiano Ranchetti

Raven by Ann Wood

Maggi poster ad from Reklamarsenaal

Cover of Graphis 116, 1964

The Raven by Lorenzo Mattotti

Corvo and Merlo by Marco Cazzato

Crows by Leonard Baskin

Crowed and Crowm by Lou Beach

Poster by Mehdi Saeedi

Rural Corvus and Urban Corvus by Dan Grzeca

Blackbird by Maarten Kolk and Guus Kusters

Drawing by Amy Dover

Sunday Safari – In the Peaceable Kingdom

Lion and fish illustration by Irina Troitskaya

Illustration by Toshiyuki Fukuda

Stuffed lions from Takiyaje, aka Lubov Nalogina

Illustration by Tatsushi Hara, thanks to Stickers and Stuff

Movie poster by Jaroslav Zelenka, 1955, from Terry Posters

Afrika lion by Lisa Larson at Gustavsberg studio, 1968,

from hi+lomodern (sorry - I just saw it's already sold!)

Spacer Iwa, book cover by Miroslaw Tokarczyk, 1973

thanks to tralaloskop's precious archives, and to Kickcan and Conkers for the tip

The Happy Lion by Roger Duvoisin used to be one of my daughters' favorite books

Illustration from Brian Wildsmith's ABC, 1962,

from hunkamunka's Vintage Children's Books set on flickr

Leones by Violeta Lópiz

Anonimous Czech movie poster, 1970, from Terry Posters

Poster from the Save series by Kazumasa Nagai, 2001

and finally, from Un lion à Paris by Beatrice Alemagna, the illustration that inspired this post,

together with the beautiful article about this and other meek lions in Le figure dei libri.