Unruly Hero Birds!

I was so inspired by the unbridled creativity in the Unruly Bird Drawing class, I came home and painted these Unruly Hero Birds:

They are hi-larious, if I say so myself.  Birds with parachutes??!!  Skydiving birds??!!  Why not??!!

I've been seeing "Keep Calm and Carry On" here and there and wondered about its origins.  Apparently, it was one of a series of morale-boosting posters prepared by the British government during World War II.  The story goes that it was held for last-minute, last-ditch use only if England was overrun, and was therefore never used.  It accidentally surfaced about 10 years ago and is finally getting the attention it deserves.

Pink, pink and more pink

I love how we don't see the actual power lines, just their reflections in the window and their shadows on the bricks.

It looks as if this photo was altered, but this is just how it came out.

Again, I thought the shadow on the building looked cool:

The rest of the best

The remaining pictures from the "Drawing Unruly Birds" class. 

Wowza!  Each feather is unique...like snowflakes:

Aren't these just fabulous colors?  And those eyelashes...they're not unruly at all!

Birds on the far end of the wire:

An inventive young man using his own personal relief transfer method:

The "Circle of Life"...unruly bird style, complete with bird listening to an iPod:

Unruly cats!

I think this one spied his "perfect mate":

These 2 are having a sweet conversation about the correct placement of the egg:

I was disappointed I wasn't able to post all the participants' work...some of my photos were blurry.  So if anyone from the class doesn't see their work, feel free to scan it in and send it to me and I'll be happy to post it.

More class photos

My vote for the happiest unruly bird:

I love the tail feathers...and the watchful bird in the corner:

Clearly a "star" is born:

Paging Dr. Seuss...paging Dr. Seuss!  Stat!

I had no idea unruly birds were multilingual!

Can you see the mama bird with her 3 babies?

Stay tuned...more class photos tomorrow!

Unruliest birds of all!

This evening I "taught" the "Drawing Unruly Bird" class at the Kirland Library.  Usually there are almost all adults in my classes, but because it's summer vacation, there were tons of kids.  I didn't teach them a thing...they all came up with the most amazing, creative unruly birds possible on their own.  Here's a sampling of the artists at work:

I love the different tail feathers!

Flap!  Flap!  Indeed!

Birds in spaceships, mama bird walking a snake on a leash, daddy bird with a bowtie, bowler hat and a cane, baby bird with a little backpack and yellow sneakers...in a zillion years I couldn't have come up with something this imaginative!

Do you just love mama bird with her purses?

Elegant

A colorful sampler:

I love the bird with the feather in a headband...a hippie bird, perhaps?  Did you notice "Goldlilocks has chicken pox"?

And the littlest artist proudly displaying his work

  More photos tomorrow!

Anything looks good in pink and purple...

Exotic Flowers:

Graffiti:

Simple flowers:

Petunias in front of a gigantic spoon.  

Did you say "spoon"?  Yes, spoon.

Advertising posters:

REALLY exotic flowers:

Hydrangeas:

Purples in Georgetown

Blacks and whites in Georgetown