An orange tip butterfly, about to land on a cuckoo flower. Background fabric from part of an old skirt that belonged to my lovely Mum, and painted first with white gesso, and then some watercolour. butterfly and flowers raw edge applique, (and some paint!)
Another finished experimental piece for the birdsong challenge, this time the song thrush I photographed earlier in the year. I'm going to put these pieces together into a fabric concertina book, a bit like the set of collagraph boat images from Dungeness I made some time ago, here
I'm hoping to come up with an idea for a finished piece for this challenge, so plenty to be going on with in the meantime, and I'm quite enjoying making these explorative pieces, especially as I'm learning more about our local birds, their songs, and their habits.
Lovely butterfly piece and your songbirds will look great in a concertina book.
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ReplyDeleteI do like the butterfly piece. I really like your work, and read your blog all the time. But I don't comment nearly enough. Thank you for commenting on my blog.
ReplyDeleteAhh! well thanks Caz, but please don't worry about how often you comment, it's always lovely to read any comments, but I don't expect them every time from the same readers. I certainly don't comment every time on the blogs I read, I'd never get anything else done otherwise!!! ha ha!
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