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.
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.
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