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Painting Webinar: RESCUED BIRDS
LIVE on Friday, September 24, 2021, at 11 am Pacific.
The session's recording will be available anytime thereafter.
Inspiration video: https://youtu.be/vUi315Ctcxk
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After purchase, we will send you an access link to the webinar (before the session starts) or the links to the recorded session if you purchase thereafter.
We're using ZOOM as the video platform. Video and audio for participants will be muted by default during the live webinar. You'll be able to view and listen to the presentation and interact via chat. The session will be recorded and up for replay anytime after the live webinar ends.
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RESCUED BIRDS
We would assume that pretty much everyone understands that mixing art and live animals is not a good idea in this day and age. We would also imagine that it's common knowledge that dove releases are pretty bad, regardless of where.
And yet, in today's Los Angeles, a powerhouse gallery hosting the opening for a solo show of an artist who's reached stardom status, featured an organized a dove release that made some people cringe and a few others walk away with disgust.
Among those was artist Sheida Soleimani, who is also a federally recognized bird rehabilitator. Sheida knows quite well the fate of those domesticated birds that are released into the urban and dystopian wilderness: death by starvation, illness, or predatory attack.
Here is the article that explains it all and names names. We reached out to Sheida, and she kindly connected with us. She let us use images on her social media platform of the birds she's rescued and nursed in her "bird clinic."
They will be the subjects of our paintings.
Please read the article and follow Sheida's Instagram here. Here is her website. Please tag her name if you share images of your painting @sheidajanam. We are so happy to have connected with her and are supportive of her plea.
- Painting premise: Animal Portrait.
- Props: Photo of rescued bird by artist Sheida Soleimani.
- Painting surface: any size, any kind. We recommend 9x12 or under.
- Painting webinar medium: oil over cotton paper. Feel free to select your media.