A Pageant of Birds

                                                                A Pageant of Birds 
19 inches tall 6 inches wide. Inspired by a photograph by Eudora Welty from the 1930’s. Cotton fabric body, wool stuffing. Wired fingers. Trapunto technique in the face to lift the nose. Features created with acrylic paint, pigma pen, Prisma color pencils. Lips, eyebrows, lids, flair of nostrils and fingernails hand stitched with Gutterman’s and Sulky thread. Highlight and shadow create depth. Hair is  of fine dark charcoal mohair yarn, sewn and twisted and into a sculptural form.

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