Showing posts with label nest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nest. Show all posts
Saturday, December 20, 2014
I Catch the Birds, I am the Crafty Thing
I Catch the Birds, I am the Crafty Thing. Original painting. 8" x 10" acrylic on acid-free paper.
Inspired by a line from the 1864 poem Caliban upon Setebos by Robert Browning.
by Julie Kwiatkowski Schuler
Painting does not contain the black bars or the "My Good Babushka" watermark. Those were included here for security and formatting purposes.
Labels:
art,
bird cage,
birds,
caliban upon setebos,
fairy tale,
folk tale,
forest,
illustration,
nest,
painting,
robert browning,
victorian poet
Friday, December 19, 2014
I Catch the Birds, I am the Crafty Thing
Inspired by a line from the 1864 poem Caliban upon Setebos by Robert Browning.
by Julie Kwiatkowski Schuler
Labels:
art,
bird cage,
bird catcher,
birds,
canaries,
fairy tale,
folk tale,
forest,
illustration,
nest,
painting,
Surrealism
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Magpie
Magpie. Original acrylic painting on paper 8" x 10".
Young woman beset with magpies. Inspired by an archaic superstition that one would be in mortal danger if a magpie took one's hair to build a next.
By Julie K. Schuler. The painting does not contain the black bars or the "My Good Babushka" watermark, which were included here for formatting and security purposes.
Labels:
art,
bad luck,
bad omen,
birds,
dark forest,
fairy tale,
folk tale,
long hair,
magpie,
nest,
painting,
superstition
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Magpie
Young woman beset with magpies. Inspired by an archaic superstition that one would be in mortal danger if a magpie took one's hair to build a nest.
Labels:
art,
bad omen,
birds,
dark forest,
death,
long hair,
macabre art,
magpies,
nest,
painting,
superstition
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
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