MACAW THE KNIFE

Macaw the Knife, 16 x 12 inch ink and watercolor by George C. Clark    AVAILABLE

I found this macaw in a private zoo in the far western suburbs of Chicago where I was accompanying a college art teacher friend and his class of painting students.  There were antelopes and mountain goats brahma cattle and horses and big cats, but none of them seemed willing to hold still for more than a few minutes at a time.  This bird was in a big cage on a shady porch with a blank wall behind him, and while he did move around some, he always returned to this position watching the other animals out in front of him.

This painting and several others that I have posted here (Kathryn's Irises, Jungfernsteig Bridge in Hamburg, and Marienplatz, Munich, among others) are currently in a a secret four artist exhibition I am in in the lobby of a luxury 300 unit condo building downtown on the Chicago River.  I call it secret because it's not open to the public.  I could show it to you, but I would have to take you there myself and let building security know we are coming.  The show is for  the building's residents and their guests.  I have been in exhibitions there before and I do them because work does sell there, including a painting of mine.  Plus they do a very nice party for the opening, to which the artists can invite a very limited number of guests.