Checkerboard of Birds

Viggy says I am obsessed with this kind of checkerboards (remember the Ganeshas?) and with silhouttes (uh.hmm like the Krishna Lila tree). Something about chickening out of working on details but I loved the end result of my endeavour in these birds. Whats it about birds that is so alluring - the freedom, the ability to fly...At some point of time in childhood (which now seems so far away in the past!) I wished I could be reborn as a bird! Now after my dive into philosophy, nope, no more births!!

I got the canvass board (24 by 30) from Michaels on a sale and set to work with my acrylics. I painted the background of 20 squares - giving them special effects - like the green - second from top left and so on. Based on my resolve to paint seagulls, I painted the seagull first on the top left and did 2 more - the second on the second row standing on still water and the fifth on the second row . But the crow took over my imagination at the bottom left. The swan is also a favorite second on the bottom row and then the hummingbird on top right. The birds on the electric lines has been another of my cherished subjects though in such a small space I could not do much justice. Maybe on another canvass, another day! This painting just flew with my imagination hopefully in the right direction.