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As the #Owls are playing tonight, here's a #WednesdayOwl on a... Wednesday! And here's a #robin, in honour of our guests.

#SheilaFlinn - "Stylised study of an #owl on a red ground"
#RichardSpare - "Bright Robin" - 2012

#Art #Arte #Painting #Birds
#SheffieldWednesday v #BristolCity
#SWFC v #BCFC
Here's a rather sheepish-looking owl with horns/eartufts. Figuratively depicted (rather than literal), this owl is standing up straight, with its wings hanging by its sides. From its chest to its knees, it is sandy with white teardrops for texture. Each wing has one long doodle of a brown feather, with white fringing. It is standing before some rudimentary representations of trees, and behind that is a flat field of rusty red, with a hazy yellow-orange sun in the upper left corner. But the eyes! The eyes (carrot orange, with big black pupils) are looking up and to the bird's right, making it look like it is receiving a ticking off from a teacher. Brilliant. A little robin redbreast, perched on a twig. This is a representation, more than faithful reproduction. The robin's head, back and wings are brown, with orange strenghtening to red from the bird's cheeks to its chest. Between these there is a snake of pale blue, with a black dot for an eye at the top of the blue. The background, the twig and the bird's rump are all the same mottled grey-white. I can't decide if the bird looks proud or tearful, but I am autistic so these things are a mystery to me, really.
January 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM