This Pop-up birdie was very fun to make! I found a template online for a standard pop-up bird and adapted it to fit my own purposes. This included looking at a lot of children’s pop-up books along the way which I enjoyed a bit too much. Each piece was painted separately with acrylics and then it was assembled.
At the moment the card is a simple square piece folded in half, however with more time I would like to experiment with different shapes and clolours.
This is just an example of Su Blackwell’s work. She works with books and paper crafting, creating beautiful and often melancholy scenes based on fairy tales and legends. The example above shows the amount of intricate detail that Blackwell puts into every image. She uses thin wire and cardboard to help the pieces stand up, apart from that everything is made from paper. The delicacy and fragility of the paper appeals to Blackwell as she feels that the stories she tries to depict are often surreal and with a dream like quality shown best with a fragile material.
The use of lighting and arrangement is also carefully considered. Sometimes the orange glow of a bulb will add a warmth to the scene and throw interesting shadows.
I highly recommend anyone to look at her website at http://www.sublackwell.co.uk/
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Robyn Skillman 