Dave and Manon join Painted Perches

Our Centretown home has joined Painted Perches, which is "a community art project to turn LeBreton St into an open-air walking gallery of hand-painted birdhouses."

The organizer, Jesse Burcsik, delivered flyers describing the project to houses on the street and when I said we were intererested, he gave us two bird houses to paint. 

I painted one yellow and green (I actually blended the green all by myself using yellow and blue paint) and the lovely Manon painted the other house to imitate the colours of our house using colours that she found in our collection and also blended herself.

I mounted the houses this morning and I must say we are very happy with them.

We hope that two avian families will move in and they will get along peacefully with the canine patrons of the Stick Library. 

Jesse has created an excellent page describing the project that includes a map for all the bird houses with links to descriptions of each house. 

• Manon's bird house: The Mini Manonsion
• Dave's bird house: The Yellow Leaf House 

More about Painted Perches

The core Painted Perches trail is along LeBreton St N, but neighbours from all over Ottawa are invited to take part — put up a birdhouse and add it to the map.

The project was started by Ottawa resident Jesse Burcsik, and made possible by neighbours and local artists of all ages.

Painted perches has an excellent web page at paintedperches.ca and is on Instagram @paintedperches

There is an upcoming painting event at the Cambridge Street Seats on July 25 from 1pm to 4pm: all materials provided!