Here Come The Birds!

As I said I would, I thought that it would quite good to show you a bit of my art work. My art is mainly based around birds; an obsession I now can't get away from. I briefly mentioned in my previous post that it was after seeing the work of Treacle Jack Designs that I first got interested in stamps. 

I didn't look any further into the subject but then stamps just seemed to be appearing everywhere, especially after going to this exhibition, Velvet Moths. I visited the exhibition with my Nan and she remember that she had a collection of old stamps that she was willing to give me some of. I was over the moon at the number of stamps she gave me; all from different countries and years.

A Collection of Stamps

It was a while before I thought of what to do with the stamps but I knew that I would somehow have to tie them in with my original idea of the birds. Whilst researching birds and stamps, it came to me that I can use the stamps almost as the postage for birds that migrate. I wanted to get working straight away as I had finally found something that I really wanted to do within art and here's the piece I created:

Swallow on American Map - Acrylics

I am really please with this piece but not so happy that I did it in my sketchbook rather than on paper as it would have been a nice piece to exhibit. Never mind though, there is plenty of time to be creative and make some more! Since this piece I have just been exploring combining the stamps with the bird theme and drawing lots of birds.

Hand Embroidered Swallow on Stamps

This piece is made up by stitching the bird onto paper with the stamps printed on. I think the idea of stitching the bird as I feel it resembles the lines that are used to map bird flight paths but feel that the stamps themselves are too bold in colour and over power the bird. What I plan to do now is it just carry on with the drawing and sampling of work in the aim that eventually everything will fall into place. Fingers crossed.