Birds Make the Art, Part 8

For a treat on this Tuesday, some awesome bird art. It鈥檒l break up the day, cause it鈥檚 really quite smart. Enjoy this eighth installment of our Birds Make the Art series.

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Philadelphia-based artist Spinney uses oil paints and glazes to create large-scale depictions of birds. She says she鈥檚 鈥渇ascinated by the representation and calculation of beauty and grandeur鈥 and thinks of bird feathers as costume.

Artwork by
Dawson is a Prince Edward County-based artist, portrait photographer, and lover of birds and nature. This mother of two recently switched from traditional drawing and acrylic/oil painting to digital fine art.

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Powers鈥 artwork comes from her passion for birds. 鈥淢y exposure to the natural world,鈥 she says, 鈥渉as helped me realize that most of the plights of our feathered, furred, and scaled brothers and sisters are caused by humankind.鈥

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artists Tracey Long, Jean Smith, and Michele Th茅berge
, artists Ana Jones, PopcaPopca Studio, and Amanda Krauss
, artist Claire Brewster
, artists Tina Burke, Tricia Arnold, and Julie Ann Glenzinski
, artists Tom Toro, Josh Durant, and Dinuk Magammana
, artists Anne Wertheim, Rob Fulton, and Angela Rizza
, artists Denise Marks, Mark Armstrong, and Kurt Swanson

Want to see your bird art on the Perch? E-mail Associate Editor Michele Berger at mwberger@audubon.org. Please include 鈥淏ird art鈥 in the subject line.