DAVID PLANK

P.O. Box 751

Salem, MO 65560

573-729-3287

krtd@fidnet.com

David Plank has created watercolor paintings of birds for more than half a century. Born in Salem, Missouri in 1934, he began drawing and painting birds in the early 1940's. Except for an absence of three years in the U.S. Army, he has continued to live in Salem where birds of the Ozark Highlands are a continuing inspiration for his paintings.


Birds in their natural habitat rendered in pencil are the basis for his paintings, which are then brought to life in transparent watercolor. David's passion for painting birds has resulted in the creation of more than 1,200 watercolors, hundreds of finished drawings and over fifty thousand field drawings.

Among David's many accomplishments:

• Bird Watcher's Digest - Eleven cover paintings
• Watercolor USA - Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO - exhibitor
• "Birds in Art" - Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum - Wausau, WI (six time exhibitor)
• Artist for "The Birds of Missouri-Their Distribution and Abundance" (Dr. David Easterla & Mark Robbins -1991 -University of Missouri Press) 12 paintings, 30 pen & ink drawings - "Arkansas Birds - Their Distribution and Abundance" (Dr. Douglas James & Dr. Joseph Neal - 1986 -University of Arkansas Press)