On Friday I had a collaboration project as part of my uni work with my fellow illustration student Holly Horn. We had a day to respond to the word 'Stable' and we decided to look at deceptively stable structures that look fragile but are actually very resilient. In the end we decided to focus on a bird's nest and started the day by attempting to make our own nest out of found objects so that we could focus on and understand the structure Then we created illustrations from our nest, working on top of each other's drawings. I would really encourage collaboration; it was an exciting and fun experience as we both created work that we wouldn't have with our own but could by combining our skills and ideas.
Making the nest
The finished nest
Drawn observations of small aspects of the nest
Nest illustration
Bird's eye view of the final piece with nest inside
the illustrations that formed a hexagon casing.
Views from the outside of the final piece showing
illustrations and scans of the nest.
More final illustrations around the nest. There were
6 in total.
More of Holly's work can be seen here: http://hollyhorn.tumblr.com/