It took three hours to plan the design with tattoo artist Alberto Tirado and about eight hours to complete. While on a trip to Tijuana last month, he had his right arm tattooed with a falcon, the Campanile and a branch of magnolia blossoms at the Last Temptation Tattoo Shop. Jonathan “Jonny” Hale, a Berkeley undergraduate, chose to put falcon art onto his body. Grinnell was the inspiration for this watercolor by Sandy Lwi. This story was produced by UC Berkeley and first published on Berkeley Newsĭiscovering that she could view the falcons’ daily lives while isolating at home gave alumna Sandy Lwi, who is a research psychologist in Berkeley, and her partner “a sense of freedom and adventure that we couldn’t experience otherwise,” she said, “and that was such a balm for the fear and uncertainty we all were experiencing at the time.” While in lockdown, she used the skills she’d learned in a watercoloring class to create a painting of Grinnell. “I paid attention to how visually striking they are: their striped belly and legs, the sideburns, the contrast in their coloring and the pop of yellow,” said Pareto, whose art studio is aptly called The Wonderstruck Printmaker. It became part of our breakfast routine to check on the falcons and their adventures.” The birds form a vertical shape that’s a nod to the campus’s Campanile, where falcons have lived since 2016.Īt home in Berkeley as COVID raged, she said, “We were very intentional in my little family that finding joy in the little things of everyday life was fundamental, and one of those sources of joy was the Cal falcons. Irenka Pareto, a UC Berkeley alumna who is a local printmaker and illustrator, created “Tower,” a hand-carved, hand-printed linocut relief print of Grinnell and two crows. Much of the artwork surfaced after the death of Grinnell, Annie’s longtime mate, on March 31, but also as a result of the pandemic, when falcon-watching on 24/7 webcams was a pastime for many people sheltered in place.
Nature has always inspired artists, so it’s no surprise that UC Berkeley’s peregrine falcons appear in numerous paintings, drawings, photos - and even a tattoo - by artists from the Bay Area and beyond. It shows two crows and a falcon in a formation that suggests a tower, like the Campanile. I love science illustration and enjoy painting local plants and animals, especially birds and bats.” Credit: Lora Roame “Tower” was hand-carved on linoleum by Berkeley artist Irenka Pareto. “I usually work in acrylic, graphite, ink, digital and watercolor. “I am a self-taught artist who enjoys using all sorts of mediums to create art,” said Lora Roame, a wildlife biologist who lives in Walnut Creek.
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