Why do people cage the things they love the most?

The last few days I've been playing with making cages. One of them failed quite a lot - Lauren thought it was a Jellyfish - but I sewed some words on it which I quite liked...

 
It did get better after that, I made one that actually looked cage-like which is always an improvement. It would have to be a bit bigger for the bird to actually fit in it though...

Then, today, our lovely sewing technician lent me a book that told me a proper way of making cages and it worked quite well. It might've worked better if I'd used the wire when I was supposed to and my wire is a bit flimsy but it's still pretty nifty :)

 I think this is the cage I'm gonna use in my final product, I'll have to re size it cos it's quite big at the min but I'm still quite proud of it. It took sooooo long to make though 
 
#lion #myna bird #cage #what's the use of wings #wire #calico #water soluble

Lion

Had a fun day making this little lion. he does need some more deail on his face and I have forgotten to give him a tail and ears but apart from that I think it's not too bad. Bit of fur for the mane instead of Calico and there's a real life Simba :)

#lion #prototype #calico #simba #fabric

I could've ruled a Kingdom...

Had a fun couple of days drawing another Lion (apart from when Lauren said it looked like a snail, not happy about that one) but now it's coloured and done properly it looks like a lion:

It was a bit fiddly to make but I do like how it's turned out, better than the last lion I think, my desk was a bit of a state while I was making it though!

 

#lion #drawing #what's the use of wings

Hedwig and Simba :)

Spent the last few days chained to my desk drawing and sticking a lion and a snowy owl. This is the result...

They keep falling apart no matter how much double sided sticky tape or selotape I use, I've got some little wooden pegs on it to try and stick it together which will hopefully work...

 

So that was how I spent my Valentines day, think tonight I'm chilling with a hot chocolate and the new episode of Supernatural :)

 

 

#drawing #snowy owl #hedwig #lion #simba #valentines #supernatural #whats the use of wings

Now the land inside my head is all I know...

Been doing some more drawings of animals. I've done another Angelfish cos I'm getting quite good at them now and a pic of a lions face. Its mane is disturbingly similar to my hair when I brush it...

I'm off to the Hancock Museum this weekend to take some photos of the stuffed animals they've got which should be quite exciting. I'll let you know how it goes...

#lion #angelfish #whats the use of wings #hancock museum

What's The Use of Wings

Well, new project started this week - butterfly one's all handed in and now we're onto our 'Work Related Learning' one. We get to pick everything about it which is quite exciting. I'm basing mine on the song 'What's the use of wings' by Brian Bedford (and I've even got a link to Mr Vin Garbutt singing it if you click the link cos he's ace and I've learnt how to put links in now lol) so there's gonna be a lot of sad animals in cages. I've only done a moodboard so far and here it is...

Miles better than my other ones I reckon :)