Andrew Zuckerman photographer

Beautiful selection of photographs, created by Andrew Zuckerman, he has taken the birds out of their habitats, and brought in a bright white surrounding to truly focus on the birds. I didn't believe it to begin with, but there are many other animals in his portfolio of projects, and they have all been in his studio for a photo-shoot. You can see his range of birds birdbook.org also follow this to the main site to see all the other animals.

The last above bird I have drawn. I think these photos are a beautiful source for use to work from, we can see how the birds move and their different colours. Go have a look.

Also make make sure you have a look at the behind the scenes video, its really interesting to see how he does it.

Mr Darwin.

Bit of an odd post, but I think its interesting, so going to share it:

(Look HERE to see the article of the odd foods, that Charles Darwin ate)...He ate a BITTEN and many other animals, it is said that his love for exotic meats, resulted in the extinction of a particular spices of giant tortoise. On HMS Beagle he had took too many onboard and they ate them, the intention was to take them home for study, I thought.

I added this to my research because it was a bit surprising of his contribution to extinction of some creatures. 

Charles Darwin also ate an owl, that "tasted fowl!" - note, don't eat owls. 

Was going to use the influence of Darwin's ways and create an interesting recipe book. Mainly focusing on the birds, for the ghosts of gone birds project. 

HOWEVER

I have chosen to create 'Crests' that show the reasons of the birds extinction. Maybe I could create one for Darwin. 

Jo LB - John Ruskin Prize - A New Look at Nature

Bittern in ink Jo LB

THE JOHN RUSKIN PRIZE

The Campaign for Drawing, in collaboration with the Guild of St George, announces a new art award: The John Ruskin Prize.

The prize will be awarded to the best wall mounted artwork on the theme A New Look at Nature, and is open to anyone over 18 working in painting, drawing, print-making or mixed media and resident or domiciled in the UK.

The Prize winner will receive £1000 and a specially commissioned pencil case. The winner’s artwork will be exhibited at Brantwood (John Ruskin’s Lake District home) and in the Millennium Gallery, Sheffield during the major autumn 2012 exhibition, Force of Nature: Picturing Ruskin’s Landscape.

Nine runners-up will be included in the exhibition of short-listed artists at Brantwood, and offered one night’s accommodation to attend the Private View, where the winner will be announced on 7 September.

Deadline for submissions: 1 June 2012         

 Use this lionk to take you to the competition page Campaign for Drawing

Josie-opinions on scribbler birds!

Hey everyone, heres some drawings i have been working on. I drew them on scribbler, painted over printouts and then layered them up on photoshop. Any comments on which work better than others, if colour line is better etc. Thanks!

Jo LB The Bittern Two sets of words - Which one?

 There are two versions of words for my key stage i book can you give me some feed back - thanks

Version 1

You may never see a bittern,

He is so secretive and shy.

You may never see a bittern

because he likes to hide

You may never see a bittern,

When he’s new and on his nest.

He has a wispy little crown

and soft and fluffy fuzzy down 

You may never see a bittern

When he is looking for his lunch.

He creeps among the stalky reeds

With eyes like yellow shiny beads

You may never see a bittern

When his eyes are on his prey

He likes a frog or vole or fish

and he darts to catch his dish

You may never see a bittern

He has many ways to hide.

He makes his body tall and thin

or straight and pointy like a pin.

You may never see a bittern

You could watch the reeds all day.

                      It could be there are so few

or he might be watching you

You may never see a bittern

But you might hear one ………. BURP

OR

Version 2

You may never see a bittern

He is so difficult to spot

He’s very shy and secretive

and he always hides a lot

You may never see a bittern,

When he’s new and on his nest.

With lovely soft and fluffy down

and a funny little crest

 

You may never see a bittern

When he’s looking all around.

He creeps among the stalky reeds

he never makes a sound

You may never see a bittern

When his eyes are on his prey

He likes a fish, a frog or vole

He wants one every day

You may never see a bittern

He has many ways to hide.

He makes his body tall and thin

or flattened down and wide.

You may never see a bittern

You could watch the reeds all day.

He might be standing watching you

It’s impossible to say

                     

You may never see a bittern

but if you ever heard

you would certainly remember

The day a Bittern Burped

Jo LB - Wordle idea generation

If you find that you can create ideas from word generation of that images come from words in your head then this piece of web software might be really useful.

Wordle

You can change orientation, font and colour so it will fit your theme.  very clever.  I have used it to help me focus down to short sentences and important words to put into my flip book.

Amy

So I emailed Ceri about my project and he was really excited to see what I come up with so I'm sure he'll say the same about all of your guys work as well :)
Just spoken to Tom and he suggested passing the link for this blog to Ceri so he can see what we've been up to.