The phoenix is a mythical bird that appears in several diverse cultures, including ancient Greece and China. The phoenix lives a very long life, at the end of which it builds itself a pyre and immolates itself; its progeny rises from the ashes.
If you look at phoenix imagery from around the world, it runs the gambit from free-flowing gentle-looking birds to fierce fire creatures.
I've been wanting to explore phoenix imagery for a while, so I'll spend this week doodling different interpretations of the phoenix. I suspect it will mostly be a process of picking a head shape, a beak shape a body shape and feet, adding some fire and seeing where it all ends up... could be kind of fun.
Doodled from imagination, in honor of Phoenix the red-tailed hawk at Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation.
