Away with the birds

Another New Studio

‘a murder’ 10/04/26

In April I spent an inordinate amount of time trying to get cloud anchors to work in Meadow  and finding a series of issues. Eventually I resorted to using image tracking which I can make work perfectly well. To do what I want with ‘a murder’ is going to take a lot of resolution. I removed the nest from the sculpture and added a series of ‘crosses’ from the earlier bird sculptures.

‘a murder’ (detail) 10/04/26

At the moment these are effectively maquettes, I’ll make them more solid at a later stage. The sculpture will be animated in AR by overlaying each ‘cross bird’ with a twin flying in a limited space above it. A flock will rise from the trees and return on a repeating cycle.

I put a webpage together covering the development of the birds as they’re a significant project now.

‘starlings’ 10/04/26

The other piece that I’m spending time on is ‘starlings’, this was ‘the shapes birds make in the air 11’ but has changed as I remembered some textures I made six years ago and have been contemplating working towards a book that brings the birds together with the garden in the manner of Elisabeth Bletsoe’s ‘Birds of the Sherborne Missal’ The pieces will be centred on observations of each mornings visitors in the garden and have drawings, sculptures and AR/VR works linked from them.

‘the shapes birds make in the air’ 10/04/26

I also found myself frustrated by the messing about with AR and animation in blender as well as troubles with my portable hard drives. I decided to revisit the source and started to draw birds again.

Drawing

I’ve continued to draw every day;

The April drawings can be seen here

…and the March images here

There is a link to the previous month’s Gallery on each page.

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The drawings are posted to  Instagram each day.