{"id":279,"date":"2011-08-24T09:07:36","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T13:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.datcha.ca\/la_datcha\/?p=279"},"modified":"2012-10-05T19:25:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T23:25:47","slug":"birds-of-a-feather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.datcha.ca\/la_datcha\/2011\/08\/24\/birds-of-a-feather\/","title":{"rendered":"Birds of a feather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I rarely know what\u2019s going to happen when I start drawing, forms just happen. But it seems that round and fluffy feathered creatures have made their way through my work recently.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sans titre de ma Datcha, sur Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/20983499@N00\/5954200783\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6002\/5954200783_53a1a89343_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"728\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\">Ink on paper<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sans titre de ma Datcha, sur Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/20983499@N00\/6074694289\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6181\/6074694289_af3e3b2cdd_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\">Ink and acrylic on paper\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Ink and Japanese paper on paper<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They also got to me through my camera.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Notre supermarch\u00e9 pour les oeufs! de ma Datcha, sur Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/20983499@N00\/5882208021\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5026\/5882208021_dc56dd705f_z.jpg\" alt=\"Notre supermarch\u00e9 pour les oeufs!\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is where we pick up our eggs each week. These hens live a good life: they belong to a very nice neighbour who lets them wonder around freely and they end up their lives as old hens, never in a crockpot.<\/p>\n<p>These last ones were taken a while ago:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Refuge Pageau \/ Fluffy de ma Datcha, sur Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/20983499@N00\/1140532866\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1217\/1140532866_75f1115a8e_m.jpg\" alt=\"Refuge Pageau \/ Fluffy\" width=\"178\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a> <a title=\"Souvenirs du tour \u00e9co v\u00e9lo en 2005 de ma Datcha, sur Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/20983499@N00\/480131507\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/221\/480131507_d06c074ea1_m.jpg\" alt=\"Souvenirs du tour \u00e9co v\u00e9lo en 2005\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a> <a title=\"Semaine 16 - Photo de ma Datcha, sur Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/20983499@N00\/349821923\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/163\/349821923_13b8615918_m.jpg\" alt=\"Semaine 16 - Photo\" width=\"137\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The owls were photographed at le <a title=\"Refuge Pageau\" href=\"http:\/\/www.refugepageau.ca\/\">Refuge Pageau<\/a> in Abitibi, a very special shelter for animals.<br \/>\nThe second photo was taken during a three day eco-bike tour in <a title=\"Outaouais\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Outaouais_%28region%29\">Outaouais<\/a>.<br \/>\nAnd last but not least is a bird that was photographed on our balcony in Montreal. We left food outside for the stray cats, but these birds ate it as much as the cats.<\/p>\n<p>And since we are talking about birds in this post, here is today&#8217;s inspiration: the beautiful documentary \u201c<a title=\"A falconner's tale\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cultureunplugged.com\/play\/7017\/A-Falconer-s-Chronicle--Rien-Sans-Pennes-\">A falconner\u2019s tale<\/a>\u201d by my friend Marc Girard. It\u2019s available to watch on line!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I rarely know what\u2019s going to happen when I start drawing, forms just happen. But it seems that round and fluffy feathered creatures have made their way through my work recently. Ink on paper Ink and acrylic on paper\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[18,24,11,45,25],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drawing_painting","category-photo","tag-bird","tag-collage","tag-creatures","tag-inkblot","tag-mixed-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datcha.ca\/la_datcha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datcha.ca\/la_datcha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datcha.ca\/la_datcha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datcha.ca\/la_datcha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datcha.ca\/la_datcha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.datcha.ca\/la_datcha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datcha.ca\/la_datcha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datcha.ca\/la_datcha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datcha.ca\/la_datcha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}