redwing blackbird

this seems to be bird season.
artists all around me are also inspired by birds this summer.
working on a series of paintings done from 'Audubon's Birds of America.'

i love the way they are contorted - he posed them after killing them.
this is one small study on paper.



so, of course, i had to make a redwing blackbird bead



Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise.

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to be free

-the beatles