Wednesday 7 February 2018

The King Of The Magpies...



In May I am teaching a couple of collage workshops at the ever so lovely Hope and Elvis.
I'm really looking forward to teaching these brand new workshops and have been preparing in earnest.


I love magpies so much, they are the true 'dandys' of the skies with their extravagant plumage, but their feet are very tricky to draw indeed!
I really enjoy combining drawing with cut paper collage, especially when its beautiful vintage paper!


They take quite a long time to piece together, but I enjoy playing around with the different papers and twiddly final touches.


I hope you like the 'King Of The Magpies', I might even got some prints made in the near future...we'll see...

Hope you have a lovely creative day chuck x


11 comments:

  1. Love your Magpie, love vintage papers. When we rescued two Magpies who had had fallen down the chimney and got stuck behind the walled up fireplace in our bedroom I was so pleased. A colleague of my husband's said, " I hope you shot the bastards " I told him no, we didn't.

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    1. How can anyone not love them?
      Thank you for liking my magpie!!! X

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    2. I think they attack smaller birds but that is nature for you !

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  2. Love your magpie !!!!!!!!!!!!!
    (those old envelopes are wonderful !)

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    1. Sometimes I find it very hard to cut them up though!!!!! X

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  3. So love this collage! Celebrating the magpie with neutrals!

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    1. Thank you very much for the lovely comment xxx

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