41/52 Bird a week - Soar

This week's bird is one I started at the end of September. For September's Merry Go Round blog post, I wrote a tutorial on how to make a sculpture with plaster wrap, but I didn't finish off the sculpture.  Yes, you may have guessed that it was a bird, and so I finished him off today for this week's birdie "Soar".  

I had planned on painting him in acrylic paints, but in the end, I decided to use tissue paper instead. 

Doesn't he look like he is just soaring....so effortlessly.....!

You can read the plaster wrap tutorial here.  Plaster wrap is similar to the material they used to use to put a plaster on your arm or leg when you broke a bone! It's a great and quick material to use and you can then finish your sculpture in whatever way to choose.

I hope you soar this week!

If you want to see the other birdies created this week as part of the challenge, check the links below:

29/52 Bird a week - Enjoy the journey

For my 29th week - ie my 29th bird this year...... I made an inspiration bangle in aluminum. I have been playing with some fonts and thus decided to try words on a bangle..with a soaring bird also.

The bird flies in the center of the bangle and the words are:

• enjoy the journey
• discover
• explore
• escape
• experience

I think it would make a nice gift - maybe even to oneself, to remind you not to get bogged down with the minutiae but to explore and discover.

I hope you'll take time to discover what the others who are also on this year long challenge with me have created.  Here are the links: