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Hey, wonderful folks! I am doing something I've never done before and putting up a few original Ballads of Remex pieces for sale! (And a few Febirdaries.) Top row: $400 (Aja's Ant Farm and Battle Rikrikii) Middle: $300 (Autumn, The Secret, and Peter's Siblings) Bottom is $200 (various Febirdaries) Each will be signed, if it is not already, and accompanied by the story/poem that it was posted with originally, hand-written by yours truly. They are all between ~4.5x6" (larger ones) and ~4x4" (smaller ones), and are all various types of ink or ink + mixed media. Please e-mail me on if you are interested in any of them! Thanks to all of you for following me this year--lots of fun stuff in store for next year! :) #art #artforsale #originals #Febirdary #balladsofremex #ink #inktober #inktobirds #bird #birdart #mixedmedia #watercolor #clearingsomespace #christmassale #holidaysale (at Charlottesville, Virginia) https://www.instagram.com/p/Brf9UEVh8S7/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1whuwbumawchn

Day 12 : Stocky Birds are built pretty fragile when you consider their hollow bones, flammable feathers and especially sudden death syndrome (yeah that is a legit thing in pet birds). But I think the ostrich is one of the stockier ones, being the largest bird and the fastest on land.

That’s what I said every time I saw a Willie Wagtail. They liked to sit on our neighbor’s sheep.

Febirdary day 10! Round. Fluffy pigeon!

Still, guillemots. I suppose in part it’s their name, so unexpectedly exotic - only fitting for such a beautiful bird. Although some of you may know them better as ‘murres’. They are auks, family of razorbills and puffins. Like them, they have stocky bodies and wings that seem entirely too small to keep them in the air. However, they have an undeniably dapper appearance, standing tall on the sea cliffs as they rest on their hocks. They’re like the arctic’s very own penguins. And their heads, with brownish black feathers like velvet and long thin bills, are undeniably elegant. Some northern birds have white spectacles around their eyes; the further north, the more you’ll find. To me they are even more beautiful than their black-headed counterparts.

day 3 of febirdary! the prompt was nemesis.