A year and 3 months since the last post!
And the world has flipped it's magnetic axis.....
JUST KIDDING!
well, pretty close though. If Climate Crisis is not bad enough a Situation to remedy, The Universe has decided to release a Pandemic Virus onto the "virus" that's been wrecking the world's immune system.
So, as with the rest of humanity (who care enough to not become a Vector, infective one, not mathematical) we locked down.
And while my official work is Very Topical to the crisis at hand, my mind needs a very not topical things to make.
First concept was this heron on the rock:
Simple enough on paper, and thus after "wanting" to do this for so long, I did.
And the world has flipped it's magnetic axis.....
JUST KIDDING!
well, pretty close though. If Climate Crisis is not bad enough a Situation to remedy, The Universe has decided to release a Pandemic Virus onto the "virus" that's been wrecking the world's immune system.
So, as with the rest of humanity (who care enough to not become a Vector, infective one, not mathematical) we locked down.
And while my official work is Very Topical to the crisis at hand, my mind needs a very not topical things to make.
First concept was this heron on the rock:
Simple enough on paper, and thus after "wanting" to do this for so long, I did.
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| Heron Iteration 1 -- weathered Aspen twig on Aspen bark |
And then I switched tactics, to something a bit more formulaic
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| Say Hi to Groot and Greta -- White Pine twigs (groot needed a right hand) |
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| And then a Fox came along ... from White Pine |
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| Getting more confident now.... |
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| Heron Iteration 2 - White Pine The eye mark is a natural knot in the wood!!! :D Universe Approves of this Heron |
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| Heron Iteration 3 -- I broke it's neck :( had to be glued back on But a finer carving |
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| Herons 4 and 5, they come in Pairs, as Herons should be. |
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| Change in Technique. "Little brown Birb" |
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| Brown Birb and Heron Iteration 6 |