COLLECTION - stuff people keep for some reason or other. We where told as a project for college to collect  something, anything. So I collected feathers, as I have grown up with pet birds and have always been attracted to feathers. the COLOURS, PATTERNS, the way birds use feathers to FLY.

At the start of the project I did not know what I was going to do so I some drawings of the feathers in promaker and biro. 

I started to look at artist who use feathers in there work to help me gain some influence for my work 

Andrew Hutchinson - Nature Illustrator

These 3 pictures are Mary Fedden's work, which I find are quite odd but I like them as the are simple and well constructed.

 These three images are sculptures which have been crafted out of feathers by Kate MccGwire. I love these pieces as she has contrasted the way feathers are seen as light and flying to heavy and flowing like water also solid and compact. I enjoy this work. And would like to start looking at making 3D things.






PRINTING FEATHERS - by inking up some feathers I have printed many images which I have to say have came out great as you get movement and the colours are amazing.

As I was creating these I realised that you could see creatures in the shapes such as birds, butterflies, and much more so I photocopied and enlarged many of them so I could play around with them to see what I could create. 

We where told at the start of the project to make a zine, as Had many photocopies left over I decided to make a few zines to see the different ways I can get the images to collide with each other. Here are a few pages out of different zines I have made: 

After being inspired by Kate MccGwire and the creatures which I found in the prints I decided to make some creatures out of stuff that I had laying around but to keep with my collection of feathers, all the creatures would have feathers for one reason or another. 

I will carry on making more creatures as I have found making them extremely fun and would like to be able to use them in my work as characters for something or whatever.