Happy Halloween!

Torresian Crow

Hey! This looks like Australia! The Torresian Crow has a beautiful white eye with a fine blue eye-ring.

Crow vs Squirrel 1

Crow vs Squirrel 2

Crow vs Squirrel 3

Marjie B's Crow

Someone sent in a picture of an applique wall hanging featuring crows. Thanks, Marjie B!

Pretty Girl, an American Crow in Venice (California)

Got 20? (minutes, that is) If you do and you want to know what it would feel like to have a female crow adopt you, check out the video I've posted at our sister blog:

http://crowcentric.blogspot.com/

You'll be entranced and enthralled AND you'll get a big crow fix.
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Crow Knee

A very nice X-ray Technician named Peggy took this lovely picture of my knees today. We were all amazed to find out that while some people have crows' feet, I unfortunately have Crow Knee.

Huffed and Puffed Crow

Crow Compadres

Black Bird #1

Black Bird #2

Bouncy Crow

Time (detail) Crow

Smile Diver

This photo, like most of my photos, is a just a bit out of focus. In spite of it, there's enough of a reflection on the corvid's eye to bring it to life. And, I swear, if a crow could smile, this one is.

Corvid Spotted on Subway in Germany

An outstanding wildlife photographer I know was recently in Munich, Germany. He sent today's picture--an ad on the subway. Thanks, Rick Davitt!

I wonder what this ad was about?

Red Bowing Crow

This is another of my templates. This is one of my favorites as it broadcasts a message that the crow wasn't intending at all, but which connects with humans instantly.

Mayan Crow

I bought this little (yep--it can slide on the end of my pinky) crow today in a charming shop in Eagle Rock called Regeneration. The owner picked this little crow up on one of her recent trips and she told me the man she purchased it from swore it was Mayan. What a great find!

Talking Crows

Here, thanks to Photoshop, are both sides of a Mylar template used in oil-based ink monotype work. Sometimes I find the residual ink is so interesting that I just let it dry and tack it up on the wall. Since I use the templates over and over, the many layers of ink from different printing sessions adds an interesting dimension.

Sprite Crows in India

Hurray for the ad firm in India that came up with this commercial based on the intelligence of crows.

Crow Crust 3

Crow Crust 2

Crow Crust 1

Crow Siblings

Street Smart Crows

Crows adapt very nicely to the urban and suburban environment. Keeping their poses, but changing every other visual bit of information presents a different picture. This is a detail from one of my paintings, Street Smart.

Button-eyed Crow

You can turn yourself (or any lovely crow you have a photo of) into a button-eyed beauty at www.Coraline.com.

Bean Twist Crow

Bundled Wire Crow

Butch and Sundance: Wild Crows of the West

Collage Crow

Polka Dot Crow

Hieroglyphic Crow

Valentine Crow

Pecan in the Parking Lot

So I got to my apppointment early and pulled in the Target parking lot to figure out the hands-free phone contraption in the car. A lone crow was cruising for something to eat. It has been raining a lot lately, so all the birds come out during the dry periods and look for food. In the suburbs, of course, where better for a crow to search than parking lots.

Always prepared for corvid contact, I had a bag of pecans handy. I got out of the car with the bag and krinkled it up so it would make that good "food is in this kind of bag" noise. The crow was immediately alerted. Paused. Watched. Waited. I dropped a few nuts, lightly broke the shell and retreated to the car. I'll have to start carrying a better camera than the iPhone has if I'm going to keep this up.

Nobody Flocks With Randy

Got this in the mail, from Michele Jamison, who tells me "there's a Crow Bar in Shoshone, CA...just south of Death Valley."

Birdlime Blush Crow

22 Crow

Detail Crow #2

An attentive American Crow. Detail from my painting, Silent Discussion.

Crow Above the Traffic

I've been taking lots of photographs of clouds lately, since we've actually had some for a change. Found an American Crow, too.

Crow in Charge

...and he/she seems like a crow with a definite action in mind.

Detail Crow

This engaging crow is one of two in a painting of mine, Silent Discussion.

Corvid Constellation

This is an detail from a painting of crows flying through roiling waves with flecks of foam mirroring the constellations. I love being able to show the wing feathers in such a graceful way.

Corvid Knock Down

...or, you could say, how one crow gets the message across that "It's My Peanut!"

Corner Corvid

I did a line drawing in a sketchbook once that I never finished. I liked the attitude of the bird's head. Today I cut the corner of a piece of recycled paper in the shape of the drawing. Maybe the positive section I removed will show up one day.

Zip Disk Crow

Well, finally. I thought I would see a crow everywhere I looked. I see faces in kitchen implements, parking meters, clouds--you name it. Surely I can spot a few corvids. Didn't. Couldn't. And then, cleaning out the computer stuff, I popped open a zip disk. I never did before and had no idea that the "disk" was this circular Mylar looking thing. A perfect beak. Anyone else spot crows in disguise? Send them in!

Corvid Lookout

This monotype, Watcher #5, was done with a lot of layering of a water-soluble ink, Akua Kolor. One of the reasons that I love using crows to represent birds is the ease with which you can read their body language. Deliberately omitting beaks and eyes, I invite the viewer to interpret the intention of the bird. What will it do in the next second of its life? Don't you get the feeling that it depends on what YOU are going to do? Think about it. In the instant captured in this image the crow will take immediate action depending on your motion or stillness. On a larger scale, what humans do is a very large determining factor in the lives of our wild species.

Runnin' Raven

If Corvids Were Archangels....

I love downloading the camera after taking pictures of the American Crows that sometimes hang out in front of my house because images like this appear. If you don't agree with the angel idea, how about Las Vegas Showgirl Crow?

The Crow Bar Coasters

If you've visited my Crowcentric blog (all things crow) you will have seen a posting about a pub and kitchen in Corona Del Mar, California, called The Crow Bar. I had a delightful dinner there. So I'm featuring their creative coasters as well as a lovely piece of etched stemware by Alone Larsen.

Lint Trap Crow

Yep, it's the lint trap from the dryer.

Monotype with Crow

Deliberation is a monotype where I have introduced patterning and symbols that are part of our cityscape along with the American Crow, also part of the city.

Thousand Dollar Corvid