HELLO BIRDIES

I received a call this week to participate in the Hello Parks Festival happening here in Toowoomba this Sunday (as in tomorrow). Short turn around I know! As part of the brief, I was asked to create a bespoke 3D chalk drawing, with the expectation of this...

 Image -  -->Edward Müller from here...

AMAZING, but anamorphic drawing is not something
a. I have had much practice in or
b. I have previously had much interest in making myself...even though I have always loved this work

The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger (check out the elongated skull in the foreground)

However, I am interested in trying/ learning something new - as you never know when it might completely change your perspective on everything, like these Felice Varini works

While all of these works were constructed with plenty of time and technical accuracy/expertise, I (to be perfectly honest) have neither. To top it all off, it has also been raining since the Brown Cow's Bike Ride...

I have been given a lovely (and undercover!) spot in Newtown Park's rose garden and want the proposed artwork to reflect the environment. So I raided my image archives and am revisiting a 2005/6 moment - birds. And these Red-browed Firetails will potentially look great scattered on the ground.

So I will get to see tomorrow how successful this experiment is...