#ostriche

Even more Goat movie doodles, except their more like animal

A Woodcut Feathursday

Here are some woodcut feather-folk by American author, artist, designer, and letterpress printer Vincent Torre from his letterpress-printed book Songs & Fables printed in New York at his Inkwell Press in 1990 in an edition of 150 copies signed by Torre. The book is part of a four-volume series of Torre's own fables and poems, printed from handset type and illustrated with 80 full-colored woodcuts printed from the blocks. 

The birds shown here include a pigeon, a pelican and a so-called popinjay, a Trumpeter Swan and a Canada Goose, an ostrich, a bullfinch, a gull, and a parakeet. While the last image looks like some sort of blackbird, we believe it represents a wren to illustrate a verse about a gluttonous wren being kick out by his host, the swallow:

The swallow flew into a fit And pushed him through the hole. The wren became stuck fast in it At the waistline, on the whole. The swallow had to wait a day Until the wren got thinner And, finally, passed all the way. (Don't ask a bird to dinner.)

“This is Joy, and she taught me how adorable baby ostriches are.”

Et un seul fruit du cocotruche palmier