I am a member of the Down By The Liffey Gallery and every year we have a member's show.
This year's theme was "Fragile Blue" and I could think of no greater embodiment of this than the Kokako.
In the nineties a group of conservationists were so moved by its haunting call that they began work to bring it back from the edge of extinction.
Kokakos are weak flyers with bright blue wattles.
My painting was of a single bird with its beak open in song. The background was light blue.
The show had its opening last night and someone must have taken a shine to it because when I went to view the works this afternoon it had already been sold.
I went home and happily told the NPR I had just earned "threes of tens" of dollars.
Nick has encouraged me to pursue my passion in hopes that I might move a few hundred paintings a week and essentially paint him into an early retirement.
Below is a video of the bird and its song.
This year's theme was "Fragile Blue" and I could think of no greater embodiment of this than the Kokako.
In the nineties a group of conservationists were so moved by its haunting call that they began work to bring it back from the edge of extinction.
Kokakos are weak flyers with bright blue wattles.
My painting was of a single bird with its beak open in song. The background was light blue.
The show had its opening last night and someone must have taken a shine to it because when I went to view the works this afternoon it had already been sold.
I went home and happily told the NPR I had just earned "threes of tens" of dollars.
Nick has encouraged me to pursue my passion in hopes that I might move a few hundred paintings a week and essentially paint him into an early retirement.
Below is a video of the bird and its song.
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