Birds of the Pacific - TC Art Swap!!!! Its on again! - Other Crafts

M MadDogMike Grand Member (8 years) The Anvil of the Sun Joined: Mar 30, 2008 Posts: 11040	M MadDogMike Posted posted on Thu, Aug 5, 2010 6:47 PM I hope you don't mind that I keep making stuff and posting pictures - these Swaps inspire me and I hope my enthusiasm will be contagious :D HORNBILL FACTS - Did you know that the scientific name for the hornbill family, Bucerotidae, comes from the Greek word "buceros" for "cow horn"? Well, I'm about out of Hornbill ideas. :o (Well maybe just one more watercolor painting?) Hornbill #6 is kind of a "throw-away" project, but maybe my Swap partner just DREAMS of a piece like this :lol: An 8x8 inch convex wallhanging, the design was inspired by a Papua New Guinea ancestor board. The colors are flat underglaze with a paste wax finish giving it very little sheen to retain the natural pigment look. Babalu got my Hornbill #2 fired. You can see subtle pink and greys in the white areas, these will have a mother of pearl overglaze on them to hopefully look like shell inlay. (edit- new pic) I've got my sights set on a new bird; the Frogmouth Owl. I'm working on a project tonight, we'll see what happens :) I told my wife "Look at this HIDEOUS bird" She said "Oh, how CUTE!" So now I'm trying to make one :lol: [ Edited by: MadDogMike 2010-08-20 13:59 ]

I hope you don't mind that I keep making stuff and posting pictures - these Swaps inspire me and I hope my enthusiasm will be contagious :D

HORNBILL FACTS - Did you know that the scientific name for the hornbill family, Bucerotidae, comes from the Greek word "buceros" for "cow horn"?
Well, I'm about out of Hornbill ideas. :o (Well maybe just one more watercolor painting?) Hornbill #6 is kind of a "throw-away" project, but maybe my Swap partner just DREAMS of a piece like this :lol: An 8x8 inch convex wallhanging, the design was inspired by a Papua New Guinea ancestor board. The colors are flat underglaze with a paste wax finish giving it very little sheen to retain the natural pigment look.

Babalu got my Hornbill #2 fired. You can see subtle pink and greys in the white areas, these will have a mother of pearl overglaze on them to hopefully look like shell inlay. (edit- new pic)

I've got my sights set on a new bird; the Frogmouth Owl. I'm working on a project tonight, we'll see what happens :)

I told my wife "Look at this HIDEOUS bird" She said "Oh, how CUTE!" So now I'm trying to make one :lol:

[ Edited by: MadDogMike 2010-08-20 13:59 ]

Post #546770 by MadDogMike on Thu, Aug 5, 2010 6:47 PM