We're spending a week at Hermanus for the Hermanus Fynarts Festival, all about art, music, sculpture, books, and lots of culture vultures are here to soak it all up (VULTURE: yet another bird!)
The only live birds I've seen here so far are seagulls, but there is a lot of art featuring EAGLES, which are awesome in every way. Today we visited one gallery where the artist/owner showed us some beautiful collages (which is art with more than just paint - adding all sorts of found objects).
She had added bits of bone, bits of wood, hessian, you name it - and what a wonderful eagle painting she produced.
Seeing all this great stuff gives one itchy fingers to get creating, but I brought along my sketchbook plus some watercolor pencils, so am looking forward to doing something other than gaze in admiration at the work of the artists exhibiting here.
The eagle painting here reminds me of what the bible says about the eagle - how it breaks up the nest when the eaglets reach a certain stage of development and mama and papa think its time for them to make a move. Poor little guys are shoved out into the big wide world, but that's life!
Can't see the pic :(
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