It’s the day to celebrate the superb owls! All owls 🦉 are superb but here are some local favourites.
I love the whimsical terms of venery for groups of animals and have an ongoing series of #linocut#termsOfVenery prints. For my parliament of owls I made two columns of local owls - you can decide for yourself which are the government an which the loyal opposition in this parliament!
I think he's squinting at you in disbelief, this SUPERB OWL - a Western Screech-Owl (Otus kennicottii), common to woodlands throughout western North America. This one is the NW coast type I would have seen when I lived on Vancouver Island. You can tell because he's more brown & less gray. All the raptors out there were very impressive. They gave the impression that they were just tolerating our presence and the Island really belonged to them. https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/67492200
The snowy owl, a SUPERB OWL, is the official bird of the province of Québec, here with their official tree the yellow birch on my hand-carved map of Québec in this linocut.
The snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus) is found throughout the circumpolar regions. They nest in arctic regions (including the northermost tip of Québec), but range throughout much of Canada when they are not breeding. A beautiful owl!
A little more abstractly depicted, are my SUPERB OWL cyanotypes. 🌿🦉🧪🐡
A cyanotype is an early photographic method, first used in 1842, made using a slow-reacting, photographic printing formulation sensitive to 300nm to 400nm known as UVA radiation.
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