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Monday, 3 June 2024

Monday Murals - Cowara birds in Cowaramup

I love murals and street art. If you like murals or have a mural you'd like to post, this meme is for you.  Just follow the Linky steps below.  Once you start looking you will find murals everywhere.  The "Monday Mural" meme goes live on Monday at 12,01AM, Perth,Western Australian time. Be sure to link back to this blog and visit your fellow posters. Looking forward to your mural finds this week.

Thanks Sami 

In the country town of Cowaramup, also known as "Cow Town" near Margaret River I spotted this beautiful mural at the Lions's shed op-shop in Pioneer Park on the corner of Bussell Highway and Memorial Drive. 

Painted by the very talented Perth artist Brenton See, who specilises in Western Australian fauna and flora. This area is home to the beautiful and noisy Cowara or Purple-crowned Lorikeet, after which the town is named (nothing to do with cows :)

While I was taking photos in the park, a local lady stopped to ask me what I thought of the mural and then proceeded to tell me Brenton had painted another mural just a block away in his Aunty's shopfront, where we went next :)








37 comments:

  1. these giant birds are wonderful. I'd love to have paintings like these nearby

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    1. Thanks Kwarkito. They are lovely birds.

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  2. ...Sami, you have so many lovely flora and fauna post. Enjoy your new week.

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    1. Thanks Tom. It appears our mural artists like to paint Australian fauna and flora :)

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  3. Beautiful mural, I always love the birds!
    Take care, have a great day and happy week ahead.

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    1. Thank you Eileen. Enjoy your week too.

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  4. Great murals — really nice bird images. Thanks once again for hosting Monday Murals!
    best, mae at maefood.blogspot.com

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  5. These are wonderfully painted Cowara Birds, dear Sami! I really like Brenton See's style - and I'm always amazed at how the painters manage to paint grooved, wavy surfaces so perfectly!
    I'm eagerly waiting to see which mural you discovered just a block away!
    All the best, Traude
    https://rostrose.blogspot.com/2024/06/bunter-mai-2024-ruckschau-und-capsule.html

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    1. Thanks Traude. I've heard mural painters say that these wavy surfaces are quite difficult and time consuming to paint.

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  6. Beautiful birds. Mine is a bird too this week.

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    1. Thanks Jim. A willy wag-tail, they are cute :)

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  7. I believe these are king parrots. Looks so gorgeous.

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    1. The website says they are purple crowned lorikeets. From pictures the king parrots have different colours. Thanks Roentare

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  8. The are wonderful and such attractive murals. I understand why Cowaramup is known as Cow Town.

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    1. Thanks Andrew. Fake cows aplenty :) but I'm sure they also have lots of real cows.

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  9. These are delightful! Have a beautiful week dear and thank you for hosting us again. Aloha

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    1. Thanks Cloudia, enjoy the rest of your week too

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  10. That is such a beautiful mural. So very nice.

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  11. E um local inóspito fica bonito.
    Boa semana

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  12. Love these birds and murals. Reminds me of 1995 when Ingo met one of these birds for real on his shoulder, if I remember correctly it was Lamington National Park.

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    1. How nice that they flew to Ingo's shoulder. Thanks Iris

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  13. Amazing bird mural work, Loved it.
    Thanks a lot for hosting.
    Have a nice week ahead.

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  14. The linky tool does not work for me. Here is my mural for the day.
    http://grantedmutterings.blogspot.com/2024/06/large-mural.html

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    1. Hi, the link is in, just no photo, but won't allow me to enter it as it says it's a duplicate.

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    2. That is odd. If you click on it twice the picture comes up.

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  15. The birds are wonderful, Sami.

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  16. This is a great tribute to a very beautiful bird. I like it.

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    1. Thanks Sharon. Beautiful bird indeed :)

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  17. Beautiful birds! Thanks for hosting.

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