Next Challenge: "Song Bird" - Reveal Date November 30th, 2019

Song bird.

Your challenge has two parts to it. The first is to depict a bird from a song that has special meaning in your life. The second part of the challenge is to work in a style, colour palette or medium you don’t normally use.

Birds are often used as metaphor for feeling free - flying above whatever it is that might be holding you down. That's one of the reasons artists play on birds - doves, vultures, bird songs or just the word "bird" generically - as a symbol in a song. Not always is this symbolism positive.

For example, Nelly Furtado's most known hit "I'm Like A Bird" describes herself as a bird flying away without a clue where her soul or home is. John Mayer sings in "Vulture" of other people picking him apart. And then you have someone like Anderson .Paak rapping "a bird with the word came to me," playing off of The Trashmen's "bird is the word" line from "Surfin' Bird" in 1963.

If you need some inspiration, here’s a list of songs with a bird in the title:

...As the Crow Flies - Newsted

33 Crows - Kula Shaker

A Wolf Amongst Ravens - After the Burial

Albatross - Big Wreck

Albatross - Fleetwood Mac

Albatross - Foals

Albatross - Judy Collins

Albatross - Public Image Ltd.

Albatross - The Besnard Lakes

Albatross - Wild Beasts

All Birds Look Like Chickens to Me - Sweet Papa Stovepipe

A Nightingale sang in Berkely Square – Vera Lynn

Bird Song - M.I.A.

Bird Song - Sean Lennon

Birdie - Avril Lavigne

Birds – Coldplay

Birds – Imagine Dragons

Birds of the High Arctic - David Gray

Black Crow Blues - Bob Dylan

Black Swan - Megadeth

Black Swan Song - Athlete

Black Vultures - Halestorm

Blackbird - Dido

Blackbird - Madness

Blackbird - Marcy Playground

Blackbird - Rumer

Blackbird - The Beatles

Blackbird Chain - Beck

Blackest Crow - Megadeth

Blood Eagle Wings - Anthrax

Bluebird - Carl Wayne

Bluebird - Electric Light Orchestra

Bluebird - Miranda Lambert

Bluebirds Over The Mountain - Ersel Hickey

Bye Bye Blackbird - Eddie Cantor

Canary in a coalmine – The Police

Child Owlet - Steeleye Span

Cicadas And Gulls - Feist

Comfort Eagle - Cake

Dodo - David Bowie

Dodo/Lurker - Genesis

Dove and Grenade - Hollywood Undead

Doves in the Wind - SZA

Eagle - ABBA

Eagle on a Pole - Conor Oberst

Eagle Rider - Delirious?

Eagle Song - The Staves

El Condor Pasa (If I Could) - Simon & Garfunkel

Falling Dove - Crowded House

Flightless Bird, American Mouth - Iron & Wine

Fly Like An Eagle - Steve Miller Band

Free Like a Bird - the Beatles

Ghost chickens in the sky – Leroy Troy

Green Finch and Linnet Bird - Cast of Sweeney Todd

Gulls - David Gray

Happy Like A Chicken With His Head Cut Off - Eric Hutchinson

How Shall a Sparrow Fly - Ryan Bingham

Hummingbird - Seals & Crofts

Hummingbird - LCAW

Hummingbird Heartbeat - Katy Perry

I Hate Seagulls - Kate Nash

I Was An Eagle - Laura Marling

I'm an Albatraoz – AronChupa

I’m like a bird – Nelly Furtado

Ice Cream For Crow - Captain Beefheart

Kookaburra - Marion Sinclair

Let It Feel Good (My Eagles) - White Denim

Listen To The Mocking Bird – Traditional

Little bird – Annie Lennox

Little Sparrow - Dolly Parton

Little White Dove - Jenny Lewis

Magpie - Beth Orton

Mocking Bird - Barclay James Harvest

Mockingbird - Inez & Charlie Foxx

Mockingbird - Rob Thomas

Mockingbird Time - The Jayhawks

Mockingbirds - Grant Lee Buffalo

Morning Mr. Magpie - Radiohead

On Peregrine Wings - Joe Satriani

On The Wings Of A Nightingale - The Everly Brothers

Owls (Are Watching) - Funeral for a Friend

Pam the Hawk - Madness

Parakeet - Damon Albarn

Peacock - Katy Perry

Pelican - The Maccabees

Poisoning Pigeons In The Park - Tom Lehrer

Pretty Flamingo - Manfred Mann

Raven - Mark Owen

Rise Like a Phoenix - Conchita Wurst

Rockin' Robin - Bobby Day

Sally's Pigeons - Cyndi Lauper

Saturday Nite At The Duck-Pond - The Cougars

Seagull - Bad Company

Seagulls - The Coral

Sparrow - Audrey Assad

Sparrows - Jason Gray

Sparrows Will Sing - Marianne Faithfull

Starlings - Elbow

Stone the Crow - Down

Stool Pigeon - Kid Creole & the Coconuts

Swan Song - Lana Del Rey

Swan Song - Dua Lipa

Swansong For A Raven - Cradle of Filth

The Bonny Swans - Loreena McKennitt

The Cranes Are Back - Paul Weller

The Crow - Hurts

The Crow And The Butterfly - Shinedown

The Crow, the Owl and the Dove - Nightwish

The Cutty Wren - Traditional

The Eagle and the Hawk - John Denver

The Geese Of Beverly Road - The National

The Lark Ascending - Ralph Vaughan Williams

The Observations Of A Crow - Marty Stuart

The Ostrich - The Primitives

The Phoenix - Fall Out Boy

The Raven - Wishbone Ash

The Silver Swan - Orlando Gibbons

The Sparrow - Mastodon

The Sparrow Looks Up at the Machine - The Flaming Lips

The Thieving Magpie Overture - Gioachino Rossini

The Ugly Duckling - Danny Kaye

The Vulture - Pendulum

Three Little Birds - Bob Marley & the Wailers

Two Magpies - The Fireman

Visa Vulture - Shame

Vulture - Iggy Pop

Vultures - Asking Alexandria

Vultures - John Mayer

When Doves Cry - Prince

When The Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along - Al Jolson

When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano - Glenn Miller

Where Eagles Dare - Iron Maiden

Where Eagles Dare - Misfits

Where The Stars And Stripes And The Eagle Fly - Aaron Tippin

Wheresoever Eagles Gather (The Ballad of Randy Weaver) - Carl Klang

White Bird - The Coral

White Sparrows - Billy Talent

Wings Of A Dove - Ferlin Husky

Winter Bird - Aurora

Woodpecker - Chuck Berry