For my 2010 calendar I chose the theme of crows.
Why crows?
Well the first spark was a conversation I had with someone who didn't like crows, and didn't really see how anyone could.
I think crows are beautiful, and I think their beauty is especially charming because it's so easily overlooked it is almost secret. The romantics in us respond to this - that's why there are so many stories in which ostensibly plain heroines are revealed as belles. The next time you see a black crow, sidle up to it and take a long look at its plumage. To the lazy eye, it is a simple black, but to you, it flickers with the colours of the Aurora Borealis. Blue, petrol green, purple and sometimes a dark, members-only-password-at-door-jazz-bar red.
I found a strange book in the Ilac Library in Dublin, which made many outlandish but very probably true claims about corvids. As a result I drew a number of characters, all of whom shared some trait with a member of the crow family or referred to them in some way.
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