I stopped in surprise on seeing a blackbird with white feathers on the neck the other day. On my way home from the shop today I met a couple of birdwatchers. We stopped for a chat and one of them said that the bird I described was probably a ring ouzel.
'Skilled in dragon management and virgin reclamation' ( U.A. Fanthorpe ). I have been reading about Saint George because he is, iconographically, to art what the golly was to Robertson's Marmalade. Finished Alpers's The Art of Describing, Dutch art in the seventeen century. I'd like to read a book that is less about what artists might have meant and more about what they did. The facts, m'aam, are more interesting than theory. By that I mean, I want to know about the commission, the materials, tools used and the way in which they went about composing and painting or sculpting. Did they hack or splat away freehand or do preliminary drawing?
I have ordered a copy of Anne D'Alleva's 'Methods and Theories of Art History, Laurence King.
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Or a feather mutation if it was random feathers. My Mum has a 'tame' blackbird who looks like he's been splashed with white paint.Hi Cathy
Part albino you mean? Could be. I've just looked Ring Ouzel up in the RSPB handbook of British Birds and the one I saw matches the illustration.