Toucan Drawings

The Toucans love toucan artwork! If you want to draw a toucan and send it to us, we'll thank you for it, and may even post it here!

One of our favorite pieces of toucan art came from a fan in the Southwest who saw us one year at the Folklife Festival, and was inspired to make this beautiful drawing. The scan doesn't really do it justice; there's all kinds of great detail in the original. It came with the inscription:

"Toucans; keep living the dream. It does change our world.

Katherine Dombrowski 3/94

Interestingly enough, this summer at the Bumbershoot Music Festival (which has grown so bloated and corporate that the Toucans try to avoid it entirely, alas...), the message kiosk where festival-goers can post their reactions to the event, the following message appeared:

"A world without Toucans is a world without love. Did Froot Loops win? We miss you guys!"

 

Here's a great piece of art that we don't own, but would really like to! It's a stained glass piece made by someone whose name has been lost in the files, but the company is Local Color, here in Seattle.

Here's another cool piece of artwork (above) from a toucan fan named Orban Janos in Czechoslovakia. He sent us this piece for display; we love it!

 

This drawing is our Best Toucan Drawing of 1999 Award Winner! It was sent to us by Claire Fujimoto, who saw us play at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle that summer.

Watercolor Toucan

This beautiful watercolor was on a card we received several years ago. It's just gorgeous, but the card was handmade and didn't have any copyright or credits on it.

Does anyone know anything about this piece?


The Toucans are also active in the schools, teaching kids about music and rhythm, and about how music can bring different people and cultures together. We have a show called Tales of the Caribbean, which tells the story of the origin of the steel drum. The responses we get to our show are amazing, and the kids send in the coolest drawings, too! Here are a few of them, sent in by Michael Muñoz, Dalbin Hendrickson, Jeff Witter, and Kacey Teel.


Our friend Jonathan drew these two pictures for us:

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