Cardinal in our yard
Philip Levine is the new Poet Laureate of the United States. Yesterday we got the news, along with snippets of his poetry, his biography, and photos of him. Fame for him. Please link here, Philip Levine, to an earlier blog about his wonderful poetry. Like our cardinals, his poetry flashes brilliance, flitting around in and out of view.
The cardinal is the state bird of many states in the American midwest. Here I have tried to catch the male's amazing color and some sense of that amazing head, maybe nodding--in gouache, pastel, charcoal and graphite on Stonehenge paper. Cardinals are clear, loud singers; certainly they add color and song, joy, to our yards.
The cardinal is the state bird of many states in the American midwest. Here I have tried to catch the male's amazing color and some sense of that amazing head, maybe nodding--in gouache, pastel, charcoal and graphite on Stonehenge paper. Cardinals are clear, loud singers; certainly they add color and song, joy, to our yards.
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