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Scrunch Birds

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Scale project- big as you can, small as you can.

I enjoyed this- I am admittedly bad with scale, I often work quite small, so have the excuse to go so big- the paper was the length of my wingspan approx- was nice, as was the excuse to work within my comfort zone of smaller paintings (the biggest small piece is approx the length of my thumb)

The larger piece is more abstract , using blues oranges to paint something indicative of a pigeon swirling and spinning through the air.

The smaller overs are a close up of a previously painted bird, and an even closer close up of the pigeons eye. The last is what I’m calling a water drop bird- a drop of water is put down and the pagers and pigeon watercolours are added and swirled will the water settles, then the little face and feet are added with ink afterwards

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Assorted paintings

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Another piece from the life drawing session- I though it looked rather coastal, sea sidey. Added the sand castle in suggestion of a peer

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Live painting

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Birb

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Painting: Movement Week 3

Monday 27/1/25

We started with Life painting- using a palette of a mid tone dark tone and light tone that we mixed ourselves from the primaries and white.

Started with a a gestural sketch and sealing the page, then after a break to let the paint dry, we added in more details.

I think my biggest mistake with this was the lack of room at his feet: I should’ve extended the page, as he looks quite cramped- he has decent headroom but no foot room, leaving him feeling quite stocky. I am otherwise quite happy with this. I have no in progress pictures, as phones were (very understandably) not allowed.

Afterwards we arranged the pairings on the ground until we found an arranged that had enough visual interest and contrast, then we hung it in the wall for our own impromptu gallery.

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Hanging Objects 2: Hessian "Pigeons"

After going back to the back to the drawing board after the Sheet Metal Fiasco, one of my tutors introduced me to a new material I had never worked with before: Hessian.

I will cut straight to the chase here- I Really Love working with this material- it's got a good body to it, so it always for structure. than other fabrics, its flexibility and foldability lets you work woth the fabric, comprising on a position that works for both of you- it's more instructive than the complete submission of paper (a favourite of mine!|), and more affable than the unyielding rigidity of sheet metal.

And being fabric, it is much easier to manipulate, through tying, knotting, gluing, folding, scrunching, sewing, pinning, gathering.

Thats enough talking. Lets get to The Birds.

I started with some quick shapes to inspire me

These are the first 3 I made. Besides hessian, I've used various kinds of string and rope, scrap paper for stuffing, staples, thin sheet metal (it has it's uses after all, though it did slice me in the process)

I Have a few more birds in the works- my end goal is to have a flock of 10-12 - but thus is all i will post for now. Needless to say, i am very excited for my UnBirdly Scrunch Birds.

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Hanging Objects, Attempt 1: Sheet Metal "Chandeliers"

My first attempt at making a hanging sculpture was a collection of shapes made cut out of Aluminium Sheet, on the suggestion of my tutor Mike Fox.

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I drew out some shapes for for what I was hoping to make- a sort of chandelier, when viewed from below would for a sort of pigeon-y shape. I photo copied this and cut it out in a paper prototype.

I originally thought this was a promising material- I like the lard scale possible with it, i like the sheen of the metal, the ease it held its shape.

It was only once I started that Idiscovered something terrible, a fundamental flaw with this plan

I Hate Sheet Aluminium.

I have never met a material that I've disliked. Not gotten, sure, but disliked? Not really. But I hate Sheet Aluminium and I think it must be mutual considering how much difficulty and strife it's caused me. Its unwieldily, sharp, and difficult to cut- the shears get in their own way and the strain cramps you arms into an unusable state

With more working and effort I might be able to pull something from this, but for the time being I've pivoted to exploring my shapes in other mediums, namely Hessian.

Good Riddance, I say.

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Abstracting The Pigeon.

Started with this image, as I was taken with this pigeons line of action

Started with a simple quick study, then I tried to pus the shapes and the lean, the curve

then i broke it down even more, but ill get into that in another post

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Experimenting with Shape through Air dry foam clay. I must get shapier.

Inspired by the work of Nathan D Hernandez, i wanted to try my hand at this sort of 2.5D work, again playing with the flattening, volumising, and then flattening again of objects. I got some cheap air dry foam clay from a child's DIY kit with the primary colours, mixed my own, and then made the shape based off an abstract sketch of pigeon I'd made. I then took a picture of that, brought it into procreate and touched it up a little, smoothing and defining shpes and colours, correcting slightly where the colours where not quite right.

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Becoming one with the birds

I was tasking with befriending the birds, to figure out how the move, and so I spent Tuesday morning filming them, trying to understand them. Here are the results of that.

Here is the edited footage of what I captured:

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MOVEMENT [13-01-25]

current thoughts: Birds, fake birds, Automata

current inspiration:

DabChick, by Barnaby Dixon on Youtube, Handmade one handed bird puppet

Maladapted (2021), by Harrison Pearce as part of the Graceful Degradation Exhibit

Music Boxes, Cuckoo Clocks, and general mechanics

And just generally, the way birds moves, i think they're neat :)

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Animation and video editing

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Bookbinding Engagement Lab!

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Painting!!