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Birds in flight
The shapes of flying birds have a different dynamic than the shapes of birds with wings neatly folded. They carry the composition, move it in a much different way. I have two main ideas when I look at depicting a bird in flight. One is the beauty of the movement, the beauty of the way wings function; they way the feathers are shaped, patterned and organized. The other idea is the lines that the wings and feathers create, the way the diagonals flow into the lines created by the other wings (if there are multiple birds in the painting), the pattern that creates and the flow of these lines around the paper. Then I look to the shapes in the landscape (or the absence of landscape) to support, balance or echo these ideas.
