Ladies with Birds, Two Drawings - Sarah Myers

Cherries, Sarah Myers
Minimal line-drawing in charcoal.

    Two drawings show a woman with a swallow and cherries, another lady with a dove and an orange. We might be tempted to think that the swallow was begging for fruit, but if you can see a speck in the air overhead you will understand he is actually looking to catch the little fly that is the winged thing in pursuit of the cherries. And the dove in the next picture is a friendly visitor flying into land, perhaps on the outstretched hand, perhaps on the shoulder. From my collection of line-drawings in charcoal.

Woman with Dove and Orange, Sarah Myers
Minimal line-drawing in charcoal.

Three Pictures of Pigeons - Drawings by Sarah Myers

Pigeon Strutting, Sarah Myers
Drawing in minimal charcoal on paper

    Three pigeons busy themselves in these drawings. Strutting, preening, scratching, the friendly birds appear in dark charcoal on the white page, descriptions of their everyday life rendered simple and distinct by the strength of a bright sun...

Pigeon Preening, Sarah Myers
Drawing in minimal charcoal on paper

Pigeon Scratching, Sarah Myers
Drawing in minimal charcoal on paper

Duck Flapping - Drawing by Sarah Myers

Duck Flapping, Sarah Myers
Drawing in minimal line, charcoal on paper 

 The duck eagerly flaps her bright white wings as she rises on tip-toe. Simple lines describe this friendly bird who has come to shore to see us; the black charcoal defines beak, eye, neck, and especially the feathers that curl as she briefly, gently, lifts herself on the impulse of her smooth wings.

Duck Flapping, detail.  Sarah Myers

Goose Swimming - Drawing in Minimal Line by Sarah Myers

Goose Swimming, Sarah Myers
Line drawing, charcoal on paper.

   Here is a goose swimming gracefully through the water, looking at us as we watch him. The hot summer sunlight shines down; as it makes the small lake a pleasant place to drift along it turns his feathers a dazzling white, throwing his form into a single simple, bright outline. This drawing of a bird is part of my series in minimal line, more of which you can look at on my website, SarahMyersArt.com.

Goose Swimming, Sarah Myers, detail

Pigeon with a Branch - Drawing by Sarah Myers

Pigeon with a Branch, Sarah Myers
Drawing in Charcoal

     Simple lines describe a pigeon – or dove – with a sprig of olive in its beak. As a drawing she is partly the symbolic dove of peace but also simply a real, purple-grey pigeon, humorously plump and happy, who decided to build her nest on our roof, and who is holding a twig she has found before flying with it to her new house. Minimal line, charcoal.

Pigeon with a Branch, Sarah Myers, detail

Woman with a Small Bird - Sculpture by Sarah Myers

Woman with a Small Bird, Sarah Myers
Sculpture in terracotta

She looks at the small bird held lightly, carefully, in the palm of her hand. The bird gazes back, its head slightly turned to catch her in its view.

   The woman sits with one knee drawn up, the other leg bent as she sits on the ground; her long skirts fall in heavy folds around her. Many elements are meant to convey a connection, over the millennia, with the bright, gentle spirit of the Tanagra figures from ancient Greece. But though she is of the same lively orange-red earth – terracotta clay, full of iron, that can be found across the globe – and though she sits so still - motionless, with her tiny finch that never flies away - she is from a much younger world, the one that belongs to you and me...

  

Woman with a Small Bird, Sarah Myers
Detail

Woman with Small Bird, Sarah Myers
Left side

Woman with Small Bird, Sarah Myers
Right Side

Woman with Small Bird, Sarah Myers
Detail

Woman with a Small Bird, Sarah Myers
Close-up

Woman with a Small Bird
Sculpture by Sarah Myers

Two Drawings of Birds - Art by Sarah Myers

Pigeon on a Roof-top, Sarah Myers

Here are two simple line-drawings of birds: a dignified pigeon perching alertly on the clay tiles of a roof-top, and a duck swimming slowly through bright, clear water which shows his reflection in quivering outline.  The art is in charcoal pencil.

Duck Swimming, Sarah Myers

Head of an Egret, Sarah Myers
Charcoal

   Study of an Egret, minimal line-drawing in charcoal.

Face of Peace - Charcoal Drawing

The Face of Peace
Sarah Myers, Charcoal and Conte on Grayscale Paper

Olive branches, a dove with outspread wings, and the face of Peace.

Face of Peace, detail
Sarah Myers, charcoal on paper