For a while now I have had a burning desire to make some life size or at least bigger sized birds. I have a real craving to make a large flamingo but I thought Maybe I should start with a less ambitious project!
I started making a Raven but then decided against it as it would be BLACK and I doubt it would photograph well at all so the creature got longer and thinner and I remembered the Coots and Moorhens we used to see drift around Roundhay Park Lake in Leeds as a child, they had such fun characters and a funny bobby kind of walk!
I have christened my coot Christopher... I don't know why I just have. Christopher is 6.5 inches tall and a little intimidating to the average tweet but he is a very friendly chap!Now I am going to start on my flamingo... I really hope it works!
7 comments:
Wow Christopher looks great! I love the pictures with the little tweet. He looks like a gentle giant : )
He's so cute! A lifesize flamingo sounds fantastic - and very ambitious!
Wow, wow and WOW! He's a super-duper Moorhen! He does look rather like "Uncle Christopher the stork" next to the little blackbird tweet! I love his red and yellow beak and his layered wings and tail. Oh, and his amazingly loooong, bendy legs. Just lovely!
wait, so I just read this post and something clicked, cause the little bird looked like something I included in my whimsy treasury. Now that I look back, I shoulda realized from your etsy mini and little owls, but I didn't.
Guess I'm just really drawn to your work ;)
thanks guys... He was fun to make xx
excellent coot! I can't wait to see the flamingo :)
Like Lizzie says - your coot is a moorhen ;-) Coots have a big white patch on their forehead (bald as a coot) good luck with balancing the flamingo, look forward to seeing him!
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