Yesterday, after drawing and reading about bird wings and feathers and tails, I decided it was finally time to stop preparing and just start on this Fire Bird project. There’s only so much planning you can do before it becomes a way to avoid getting started. Not to say that research isn’t valuable, but after a point it can become procrastination. The questions I still had needed to be answered with my hands on the materials.

framework over full size drawing

So I started.

It was a little rough figuring out working with the reed but I feel like I’m getting the hang of it. I started with the wings because they are basically two dimensional. Once I finish them I should know the material well enough to move into the three dimensional body. One of the trickier issues is that I want to make it in parts and do the final assembly once I arrive to make it easier to transport.

But that’s in the future. For now, I’m happy with the way the wings are coming along.

two days work, two wings