Blue
The blue-footed booby is a comical-looking tropical seabird with bright blue webbed feet.
Breeding begins with elaborate courtship displays by the male. He flies around his territory, flaunting his blue feet in an exaggerated high-stepping walk, and presents pieces of nest material to the female. After making a courtship flight, the male flashes his feet at the female as he lands. Then each bird tilts its bill up towards the sky and the male gives a piercing whistle. The female responds with groaning calls, and mating follows shortly afterwards.
The blue-footed booby got its name from the spanish word bobo, which means stupid fellow. Its lack of fear and clumsiness on land has made the species vulnerable to man.
Information from - http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu
Acrylic paint on an 8X8 inch board.
posted by Jaimie @ 12:56 PM
28 comments
28 Comments:
Wrealy nice work. Love the colours and its a funny peace.
Love the colours!
There you go again...now what is that booby doing on the ironing board. I thought he said he's do the cooking and the grocery shopping, but never laundry and ironing! I love how you put these things togather! I also like the interlocking blocks of color that belnd when they meet... I am really curious where these images come from, especially if you are starting out with a blank canvas.
tee hee you didn't let the fact that the subject was blue limit your colour choices! I love how colourful your pictures are in both pigement and content.
Lovely mixture of colours, both in this work as in the others I can see on your page.
You have really great ideas!
Clever, bold and beautiful! (And full of humour!) How did you make those letters? Can you buy large stencils? I wanted to do that with a recent collage but never made the time to figure that one out.
I love how you place endangered species in man’s (woman’s) world! Your choice of colours further depicts the surreal in your work. Excellent – I love it :)
Andrea
Those letters were made with rubber stamp alphabet letters and diluted acrylic paint.
thanks for your kind comments!
I always love your work!
Great painting!! Love the bird and how you handle the composition!!
another fable animal... lovely bright colors! :)
I can't believe you already go this done. And it's gorgeous!
i love him! i was just reading an article about the Galapagos in Smithsonian recently and that bird (that exact one, with the passion for ironing) was in there!
Bravo!!!
WOW, this is stunning! Beautiful colors as always! The blue-footed booby bird on a ironing board! Excellent idea!
Oh I like this! Really colourful, but with the BLUE accent - nice. Please, why is the booby on an ironing board?
One of my favorite animals. :) I like how you use color, and an interlayered style with your pieces. All the different lines keep the eye moving all over the piece. Very nice.
I just love those blue feet - a delicious illu - I would hope the more refined male bird brings his ladyfriend some Jimmy Choos after all that foot flaunting and mincing about (nest building material - pah!) lol
Lovely painting and informative too - I presume he's on the ironing board because he's a stupid fellow.
wow! i love your colors!!! You do wonderful work!!! I'd happily hang your artwork on my walls anyime!!
Marvellous! Original and funny in great colours.
I recently actually saw a blue footed booby - near Sayulita, Mexico. They really do have very blue feet!
Your colors are so rich. Thank you for commenting on my piece, as well! :-)
I'm with Carla. I'd like a little family history on this booby. It surprises me that he(?) is apparently about to do the ironing. Is he on anti-depressants? Does he yearn to be as formal as a penguin in a tux? WHAT is the story?
Well the fanciful story could be, this booby failed to impress the female with his prancing and strutting and blue feet, so he's attempting to attract her by showing off his domestic skills.
The true story is that when I saw the topic on Friday, the first thing that popped into my brain was a blue-footed booby, which I think I became acquainted with while reading Kurt Vonnegut's Galapagos.
The ironing board came from another section of my brain.
Thanks for all your wonderful feedback everyone!
your surreal compositions with the bold colors and geometric shapes are always wonderful. i love the story behind this one, silly bird, how's he going to hold that iron?
do the words, like, mean something?
oh I don't mean that to sound exactly like it sounds.
that's another great, colourful work.
and so just right and blue
love the planets lining up outside.
you have a fine eye for a booby lover.
:)
love scott, also a blue footed booby lover
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Always a treat, always a treat!!
I love seeing what you have done!
You are in the famous "Now for something completely different" category. Thank YOU for the beautiful fun.
One would have to be a booby to hang out around an ironing board...
you must understand, I HATE ironing!:)))
Hey, it looks like the blue iron pressed the shapes in his blue feet. Hmmmm
Brilliant. I really love your work!
wonderful painting!!!
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