Awhile back, Leslie McCarthy, who has a new show at Mulberry Art Studios, was asked by a friend to paint a hummingbird for his wife’s birthday. “I had never painted one before. I painted it and loved ...

Swish! Swish! Swish! The chubby brush goes in all directions on a big sheet of easel paper. Jameson Whitfield, 3, and his milk-jug bird feeder he painted and decorated to hang in his back yard.

The average songbird has anywhere from 2,000 to 4,000 feathers. A swan can have up to 25,000. But if Bill Rice had to think about that, he'd hang up his band saw, rasp and hook knife and go back to ...