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I’m not sure if this is an abstraction of the commoner garden blackbird or what happens when bonnie birds start listening to goth music!? Whatever it is I’m rather pleased with the colour combo, I may even go so far as to describe it as being a bit chic … but, to be honest, I’m [...]
Having made a few batches of previous bonnie birds and developed a decorative pattern that I think works for them – see previous posts here – I’ve been keen to develop alternative patterns, something as it turns out is easier said than done. Here are a few examples of what I’ve come up with thus [...]
Jolene made this wee bunch of ‘flowers’ a few weeks ago and has seemingly been doing her best to ignore it ever since, I’m not sure why though, personally I think it’s rather fab and so I’ve decided to go behind her back and share them with you! Unfortunately I struggled to get a decent [...]
Maybe it’s been the first rays of spring-time sun but I was compelled to decorate the latest couple of Bonnie Birds in vibrant yellows and reds. I decided to stick with the simple design for these birds although I’m mulling over a variety of options for future generations of the Bonnie Birds … actually I’d [...]
Skot is another artist found through DeviantArt where he goes by the name Lord Hoki, living on Austrailia’s East Coast Skot works in a variety of media creating a range of drawn, painted and sculpted objects. Much of his DeviantArt account is taken up with his Hoki range of work such as those pictured below: [...]
Painting, or more specifically, what constitutes a ‘good painting’ is something that has no doubt been contested since the dawn of time when man first began daubing paint on cave walls. You can almost discern, through the mists of time, the first critic carefully contemplating some abstract image of a hunting party bringing down a [...]
Hitchcock’s, The Birds, was one of my favourite films as I grew up, the eerie notion that birds of all shapes and sizes should be overcome with an insatiable lust for human flesh, attacking young and old alike without provocation and otherwise simply sitting and waiting on some playground climbing frame for their next unsuspecting [...]
Continue reading about It’s a bit like the Hitchcock classic around here
It’s funny how an idea can sprout wings and take-off (dreadful pun entirely intended), such as it has been with these bonnie birds. It’s rather refreshing to have something I can make out of papier mache that doesn’t take forever and a day and that isn’t a bowl! Aside from this pair I’m hatching three [...]
Continue reading about more bonnie birds … an obsession in papier mache!
I’ve been watching Jolene create her fabric finches for months now, I suppose it was inevitable that I would end up taking some inspiration from them and feeding it into what I’m doing myself … indeed, Jolene alluded to as much here. The WIP previews she gave there though have long since been finished, and [...]
I spent an hour or two this week ogling at Joel Henriques’ blog and artwork. I was particularly struck by the simplicity and beauty of these wood and wire toys: So inspired was I, that I had a go at making my own wire bird…I think it’s ok for a first attempt. I’m pondering a [...]
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