I thoroughly enjoyed creating this image. Using Pen and Ink on canvas board... I found the Turkey Vulture image on "Paint My Photo" months ago... had sketched the image on the canvas and hadn't decided how to proceed. I was figuring an oil over acrylic... Last night I was in the mood to do something creative and I got down my sketch on canvas and decided just to start outlining using Sharpie... got to a stark black and white.. Then I decided that it needed color... so, I just started playing w/my PITT pens... and Viola! Turkey Vulture developed into what you see today.... which I love!!! and it turned out way better than I would have imagined... This is the first time that I have used these mediums on canvas... and I didn't think that it would work... I am very pleased with the outcome... Enjoy!
A friend of mine told me that the Turkey Vulture was a great powerful totem... So, I did a little google search on it and found that indeed... the Vulture is a very powerful positive totem... The following is a little snippet that I wanted to share...
The scientific name for the Turkey Vulture is CATHARTES AURA which means GOLDEN PURIFIER because as it goes about it's lifetime business it purifies the landscape and environment in it's own natural way, ensuring the continued health and life of other living things. The Vulture is a promise that all hardship was temporary and necessary for a higher purpose. Once a Vulture enters your life as a totem or guide, it will remain with you for life.
Vultures live and work together, both in cooperation and friendliness. They communicate with friends and neighbors when they find something to eat. They let the others know where the food is. And when there is a big feast they communicate with neighboring flocks in distant roosts. Also, Turkey Vultures that range within California Condor habitat areas, when they find food they will go to the Condors and lead them to it. One roost was observed when they had a dead cow in their neighborhood. They somehow contacted a roost of 100 vultures about 30 miles away to come join them. Several days later, before they finished their feast, two more cows died. Within a day the vultures had contacted another roost to join them. At night all the birds visited together in the same or neighboring trees. There were now three different roosts living together. When the cows had been cleaned up the several visiting roosts went home. (Source - http://sped2work.tripod.com/totem.html)
A friend of mine told me that the Turkey Vulture was a great powerful totem... So, I did a little google search on it and found that indeed... the Vulture is a very powerful positive totem... The following is a little snippet that I wanted to share...
The scientific name for the Turkey Vulture is CATHARTES AURA which means GOLDEN PURIFIER because as it goes about it's lifetime business it purifies the landscape and environment in it's own natural way, ensuring the continued health and life of other living things. The Vulture is a promise that all hardship was temporary and necessary for a higher purpose. Once a Vulture enters your life as a totem or guide, it will remain with you for life.
Vultures live and work together, both in cooperation and friendliness. They communicate with friends and neighbors when they find something to eat. They let the others know where the food is. And when there is a big feast they communicate with neighboring flocks in distant roosts. Also, Turkey Vultures that range within California Condor habitat areas, when they find food they will go to the Condors and lead them to it. One roost was observed when they had a dead cow in their neighborhood. They somehow contacted a roost of 100 vultures about 30 miles away to come join them. Several days later, before they finished their feast, two more cows died. Within a day the vultures had contacted another roost to join them. At night all the birds visited together in the same or neighboring trees. There were now three different roosts living together. When the cows had been cleaned up the several visiting roosts went home. (Source - http://sped2work.tripod.com/totem.html)
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