robin
In our family, each year at the end of winter whenever we see a robin reappear, we report to each other. Some of our family now live outside the zone where a robin, returned, can signal spring; still, those outsiders get the report about our sightings nonetheless. You too? Do you watch for a certain bird?
This small painting has various layers of pigment, charcoal and graphite, and fixatives. I tried for a solid bird (our robins are big birds) with some bit of movement.
Do you know the pastel paintings of R.B. Kitaj. They are wonderful, masterful, with much movement. And though his subjects are mostly people in places, his people have avian tendencies, it seems to me.
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