November 30 Day Challenge - Day 28 - Only 2 Painting days left! Today it is all about scarcity and eyebrows! Birds I would like to meet...sadly I will never meet the Great Auk as it became extinct when the last 2 confirm birds were killed on the 3rd July 1844. I hope you like my little flock of 5 Black Grouse, Capercaillie, Stone Curlew, Storm Petrel and Great Auk. The Atol Albatross should also be here but he didn't quite make it. On 'Black Friday' I felt this quotation from Chris Jordan was very poignant, he talks about the Atol Albatross for his Midway Project http://ift.tt/1CpcvLe "For me, kneeling over their carcasses is like looking into a macabre mirror. These birds reflect back an appallingly emblematic result of the collective trance of our consumerism and runaway industrial growth. Like the albatross, we first-world humans find ourselves lacking the ability to discern anymore what is nourishing from what is toxic to our lives and our spirits. Choked to death on our waste, the mythical albatross calls upon us to recognize that our greatest challenge lies not out there, but in here." ~cj, Seattle, February 2011 If you would like to have a look at the other paintings I have made during the challenge please click HERE http://ift.tt/1wUXDAN

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