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Posts Tagged ‘upcycled’

D is for Dachshund

07 February 2012

I’m in week 2 of my February challenge to create an entire alphabet of animals out of recycled materials and lo and behold, I’m already behind. So much for an animal a day… to restock my ‘rubbish pictures‘ supply, but hey – I’m still happily creating and with ever so  slightly more realistic expectations, am up to ‘e’ and busily sketching elephants :-)

The glue has now dried on yesterday’s recycled beastie, a Dachshund made from a dog food newspaper advert and a Bourbon biscuit wrapper. It’s her I’ll put up here for a ’show n tell’ moment I think as she’s one of my simpler designs and gives a bit more of a sense of the direction I’m taking this project in stylistically.


Rubbish Cockerels

26 April 2011

Today I have been working on a series of cockerels. (I hasten to use the full term as using the shorter version earlier in a tweet earned me a small rush of rather inappropriate followers ;-) These are the latest in a selection of Rubbish Pictures I am currently putting together as a collection to be delivered to a York Gallery, The Gift Gallery, early next month.

Cockerels follow on after foxes and owls to form the core characters from a series of woodland creatures made mostly out of Jordans cereal packets and postage stamps, continuing the theme of eco art whilst attempting to maintain my own distinctive children’s illustration style.