My animal arts and handicrafts

My hobby is animal conservation. As part of my fund-raising I make arts and crafts liiiike this:



, this (right image):



and this!




If you're interested in looking at more they can be found at:

http://www.jwuniverse.co.uk/Orangutan conservation/pages/gallery.html

(this link is posted with the kind permission of the Webmaster)


Not all my stuff is up there at the moment; I've currently made some handicrafts of kittens, frogs and pygmy chameleons too! If anyone's interested in seeing them I'll stick them up here. If you actually fancy a customised animal handicraft or something just drop me a PM and I'll see what I can do. I can make a wide variety of animals.

If you want to read about my adventures in the rainforest, that's in my diary entries on my website too.

Any feedback on my bits and bobs would be much appreciated :D

 

WOW....you do some great work.....i love the wee monkey, do you use them for key chains??

Again....great job!

 

Thank you very much :o

I can do. Normally I make them with holes where their hands/ feet are, so you can either have them as they are, or slip them on a piece of cord and wear them as a pendant, but I can make them as keyrings. I've been saving up lots of empty keyrings so I can use them for my animals. My friends and I sometimes got "goodie bags" when we went to events, or
people handed stuff out when I was at university and some of them contained several keyrings. I didn't need that many keyrings so instead of throwing them away I kept the chains themselves. Why waste perfectly good key chains? Depending on the style of chain, I either wrap cord around it for them to swing from, or I'm going to try firing them directly with the chain in for the ones where I can't do that.

I fancy making some bats too, but first I need to think of a good, practical way to create the wings without them being too fragile.

 

you are very talented.

 

Very varied talents jw ... can I asume the cat is a painting you have done? If so, it's incredible .. I am a cat lover. All of your work is great and individualistic ... well done.

 

I know eh, the cat drawing is so nice.

 

Thank you very much :gnthb: It's actually pencil crayon although I can paint too. I like to use lots of different materials. This weekend I've actually been playing with felt tip pens a lot; I've been drawing whatever has come into my head. At this current time it means lots of flowers, a few hearts and a chameleon made up of dots! If I use felt tip it means I can't be shy and rub things out. Once something is on paper, it's on! I find doing this from time to time makes me a more confident artist.

 

jw...beautiful work.
wish I had half or even quarter of the talent you have. :-)
love the monkeys.