Tag: owl

The Owl and the Ugly

I used some of Tim Holz’s interesting Kraft scrapbook paper as a base here. The thing about this paper is that the design itself isn’t very noticeable until you paint over with ink or a paint wash. Then the resist-printed design shows through. I did the sketch on the left and the owl on the …

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Paper Mache Owl Sculpture

    I decided to make this when I saw a woman make a paper mache dragon on her website. I was so enrapt I bought her mask-making book and watched all her videos and decided I was going to make some kind of sculpture. I decided on an owl because I’d had owls on …

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Book Review: Bird Sense

Bird Sense: What It’s Like to Be a Bird by Tim Birkhead Someone had recommended this book to me years ago, but it wasn’t widely available. Now it’s even on audible. The title is pretty accurate. This book talks about the senses of birds: sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste and magnetic navigation. Good parts about …

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Mulberry Wands Cover Mockup Two

Still working on the cover for Mulberry Wands. I looked up fonts and decided on this one, Gondola, from dafont. I readjusted the skulls so you could see them better, and photographed it again, but the skulls were too far back, so I made stands for them. That didn’t work either, so I pushed them …

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Day and Night Shrine

  I had prepared two shrine blanks to work on, and wasn’t quite sure what I wanted to do with them, but I  knew that one of them had to involve this color combination of blue+apricot yellow/orange. I started by gluing the wooden frame (I mitered and glued them years ago out of extra wooden …

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