Lazuli Bunting

by Barry Kent MacKay

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Price

$550

Dimensions

9.000 x 12.000 x 0.250 inches

Title

Lazuli Bunting

Artist

Barry Kent MacKay

Medium

Painting - Acrylic On Compressed Hardboard

Description

Put very simply, the range of the Lazuli Bunting (Passerina amoena) occupies most of temperate western North America south into Mexico, generally avoiding forests and treeless regions in favor of scrublands, parks and gardens, woodland edges, riparian woodlands and hedgerows. In this small painting, used as a cover for BirdWatcher’s Digest, I illustrated the male, above, in full breeding plumage. This features the bright, cerulean blue head that gives the bird its English name. Lapis lazuli is a blue, metamorphic rock, often prized for its intensely dark blue color, a darker blue than the bird. The male Lazuli Bunting also has a light chestnut-red breast and white belly and wing-bars. Females are a more subdued all over brownish color, although also showing light wing-bars. Typically they nest is a loosely woven cup-like assembly of rootlets and grass blades and similar vegetation, hidden in a bush. Usually there are three or four eggs that are pale blue in color. The painting is an homage, of sorts, to the traditional “bird illustrations” in books that I grew up with – the works of such genius artists as Fuertes, Brooks, Shortt, Sutton, Weber and others, in which the male is almost always shown above, the female below, with a suggestion of habitat, rather generalized lighting, and all markings, color and pattern needed for identification clearly on view. I quite love that type of painting and cannot be bothered with the distinction between what is thought of as “art”, as opposed to “illustration”. It is all fun to see and to do. The painting is 12 by 9 inches, and in acrylics on compressed hardboard. $550.00

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