CMIContent Mobile Interactive

Join the flock! Create your own aviary of charming, beautifully detailed, one-of-a-kind fabric bird sculptures with basic machineand handsewing, embroidery, and mixed-media craft techniques. The Artful Bird presents 16 incredibly charming, quirky, personality-filled birds for you to make! Through a detailed chapter of step-by-step basic birdmaking techniques and tips, you will not only learn to make these cute creatures, but also discover how to craft your own patterns for almost any bird-real or imagined.

In this series Sander will take you through three steps to create and complete a finished polished bird concept. He starts off with thumb-nailing and initial thinking, then takes you through creating different color palettes and scenarios for the selected thumbnail. To finish it off, a final polish pass is done to emphasize the details and bring out the full composition of the design.

In this series Sander will take you through three steps to create and complete a finished polished bird concept. He starts off with thumb-nailing and initial thinking, then takes you through creating different color palettes and scenarios for the selected thumbnail. To finish it off, a final polish pass is done to emphasize the details and bring out the full composition of the design.

Whether we live in cities, in the suburbs, or in the country, birds are ubiquitous features of daily life, so much so that we often take them for granted. But even the casual observer is aware that birds don't fill our skies in the number they once did.