The “what hawk?” conundrum is invading my house in the form of art to be framed. I always need more walls but the supply of frames is well exceeded by the rate that art comes in. We now have an almost surrealistically large male Gyr turning his head in greeting, photographed by multi- talented Albuquerque …
Tag: Art
Pigeons
The rarest living pigeon, the tooth- billed, has been photographed in Samoa. It is better than the previous image, from Wiki, though still hard to interpret. These are the only photos, ever, as far as I know. I would be happy to know I was wrong. Here is a nice Gould, not from life. Its …
My Favorite Recent Hominin Reconstruction
I suspect “WE”– call us Modern or in Europe Cro- Magnon– thought that our recently extinct fellow “hominins’”, to use the latest correct term– looked odd, as we did to them, even though we did mix genes. Most reconstructions are so steeped in reflexive egalitarianism– wrong word, but I’m looking for a synonym for sappy …
Gos Grips
It may be relevant to my quandary below that the bird I put on my stationery (must scan– it is not a jpeg), western belt buckle, and autopistols has always been a Goshawk, designed from from Japanese art. I have had this: And, on a Commander frame, this: The artist who did the scrimshaw above …
“First the Hawk…”
Matt Mullenix is still part of the team here at Q, but has temporarily misplaced his access, so has asked me to post these reflections on perfectionism he wrote down after yesterday’s hawking, and my response. The phrase comes from the useful maxim, one of the first any aspiring falconer should memorize and carve on …
Floyd Robbins
Reader and commenter Gil Tracy introduced me to the work of his friend, the wood carver Floyd Robbins of South Carolina. I didn’t think carving was art until I saw these. You have seen the “dead dove” below; take a look at these extraordinary objects. Gil says: “The wisp of snipe has to be seen …
This is not a dead dove
It is made of, carved from, WOOD. A teaser. I know I have been channeling Magritte a bit in titles lately, but this is uncanny. Much more to come shortly…
Crawhall
There are certainly “writers’ writers”; I believe there are painter’s painters. Tom Quinn has relentlessly high standards– he admires Durer’s hare, and the zen paintings of Samurai swordsman turned artist Musashi. He once asked me if I had seen a particular painting of a white common pigeon, saying that he sometimes thought it was the …
My other favorite raptor painting…
It’s a goshawk, probably to no one’s surprise– a tiny watercolor by Tom Quinn, “Two Shades of Blue”. The week after he painted it he sent me a transparency, writing “This fell out of my brush…” The painted gos is actually smaller in real life (of the painting I mean) than a Steller’s jay, her …
Obscure Objects of Desire
Nobody NEEDS any of these, and my chances of getting any range from possible to slim to no way on earth, but as an over- the- top wish list… From Aero Art, who do remarkable military miniatures (I have a Mongol drummer on a Bactrian camel and a Mogul warrior with a monitor lizard), comes …