Dahmen will feature regional birds

Laurel MacDonald and Andrew Sewell team up with an art exhibit of endangered and regional birds to be displayed at Artisans at the Dahmen Barn in Uniontown from Feb. 5 through Feb. 22. Laurel will feature endangered birds in lino block prints completed over the past year, and Sewell will feature regional birds done in watercolor in the past 30 days. The opening reception will be Sunday, Feb. 8, from 1 to 4 p.m.

Sewell took on the challenge of doing one painting per day for the entire month of January. He painted a bird a day following the alphabet. So the first painting was a bird starting with the letter "A." The Dahmen Barn gallery will display all 31 watercolors which have been done in various shapes and sizes.

In 2014, MacDonald started drawing and making linocut prints of birds around her farmhouse. She drew magpies, quail, crows, owls, kestrels and woodpeckers. In addition to these common Idaho birds, Laurel began to draw endangered birds. She couldn't draw all the endangered birds, but an alphabet book of 26 endangered birds seemed to be a manageable goal.

This project took the entire year to complete and she finished the last one in December.

The black and white prints and text about each bird are in "Save the Birds: an Alphabet Art Book" available at the Dahmen Barn gift shop.

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