for the birds

here is a piece i did for a previous art class. the assignment was to recreate the color wheel with iconic figures. i chose bird silhouettes. it was a really fun project and i'm really proud of the results. i used cell-vinyl paints and depending on the color, the consistency of the paint varied. that's why my violet looks terrible. it was super viscous and when it dried, it dried like crusty spackle. the color progression begins in the middle with the eagle. it is red, orange red, orange, orange yellow, yellow, yellow green, green, blue green, blue, etc. so it's primary, secondary, and tertiary colors. needless to say, this is a mobile phone photo so it doesn't really show the smoothness of the real piece.

and i'll leave you something i saw yesterday on youtube. apparently, the bbc found a flock of penguins that fly! they even flew to the amazon! amazing!

when i was a child, i fantasized about having a pet puffin. then about two years ago, my friend rose d. told me she was going to go see puffins in real life... and that totally totally brought me back to the third grade. (i made a pillow for art class and i stitched a puffin on the face of the pillow. i'll try and look for it when i go visit my parents). so of course, i immediated googled puffins and it played the calling sounds of puffins and we cracked up! they sound HILARIOUS!

flying penguins:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYVBaTD0zqw



obviously this was an april's fool day joke! pretty awesome though!

puffins: (the creaking noise you hear at the beginning is how they sound)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndDDeZ3O-Ls