Wire birds – manipulating line in three dimensions! 

This evening I went to a three hour evening session at Abington Park Museum led by artist Zack McLaughlin @paperandwood

He demonstrated how to use two different thicknesses of wire to make the structure of a bird and decorate it. I had the opportunity to make one bird to learn how and another to experiment and refine the technique. The linear quality of the wire being manipulated in space was so like an extra challenging version of drawing with a pen on paper and this was further emphasised by photographing the shadows of the birds.


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13th July 2017

1786

More of Sulgrave 119 (Gill’s and Jo’s desks)

Pen and watercolour 

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12th July 2017

1785

From Delapre Abbey

Felt pen and collage (inspired by Richard Alomar’s recent urbansketches)

A5

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11th July 2017

1784

From inside the Zapato Lounge, because it was too rainy to draw outside, a good opportunity to practise sketching furniture for my office concertina.

Pen and watercolour

A5

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10th July 2017

1783

Sulgrave 119, next section of a panoramic view of the English team office

Pen and watercolour

18 x 30cm


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9th July 2017

1782

Trailing nasturtiums and verbena

4B pencil

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8th July 2017

1781

White daisies in my garden

4B pencil 

30 x 20 cm

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7th July 2017

1780

Portrait of a daisy 3/4

Pencil and watercolour

8 x 8 cm

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6th July 2017

1779

Sulgrave 119, the beginning of a panoramic view of the English team office, before it changes forever! 

Pen and watercolour 

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5th July 2017

1778

Start of a collagraph- back window, 78 Derngate

Pencil, craft knife, PVA, 

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