Actually it's becoming pretty obvious that I can’t call these "Charley Harper birds" any more. The more of them that I do, the less they look like his work and the more they look like mine. Which is right and natural, I suppose, and although it may not be obvious, I’ve learned a lot from him.
The latest four birds inspired by Charley Harper's style
These birds are definitely only first versions, and there are a lot of changes I want to make to them, but they’re encouraging enough to carry on with. I’ve started work on backgrounds of leaves and branches against which the birds can be posed, although it will be a very long time before the final panel is finished, as it will consist of 8 separate large embroideries stitched together, and all that digitising and stitching will take some time