Birds of Paradise

 

II Tropical Birds

She was not quite what you would call refined.  She was not quite what you would call unrefined.   She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.  ( Mark Twain)

Plum Headed Parakeet

 

Puerto Rican Parrots in Rainforest

 

I hope you love birds too.   It is economical.  It saves going to heaven.  (Emily Dickinson)

III Those Magnificent Macaws

In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.  (Robert Lynd)

Mr. Colorful

The Gang's All Here

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.  (Claude Monet)

IV The Bird Cage  Abstract Watercolors of My Greenwing Macaw Floyd

I paint objects as I think them; not as I see them.  (Pablo Picasso)

There are no mistakes, only tracks of where you have been to get where you are.  (Robert Kaupelis)

V Toucans and Toucanets

The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.  (Hans Hofmann)

 

Guyana Toucanet

I don’t know where my ideas come from. They just appear by themselves.  I never feel like its ME making the art, I just turn up for the job and get my orders,  (Geoffrey Laurence)