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LOL wondered when you guys would notice. The bird on top is a shrike… a predatory songbird. When they catch a small critter to eat, they dispatch it then shove it on a branch or thorn so that they can more easily tear off bite sized pieces, and they also use it as a larder to cache food for when food is scarce…
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My art: featherdust.comI love you’re tree Jennifer, so creative.
I don’t know if I’ll be able to post a picture of mine or not this year. There’s a gap on the bottom row of branches that goes from the middle of the front to the middle of the back that isn’t lighted. It’s a pre-lit tree and I haven’t had a chance to change all the bulbs or find the correct plug to change out the fuses. Very annoying when you have to change every single bulb because they are all blown. 🙁
Jennifer wrote:LOL wondered when you guys would notice. The bird on top is a shrike… a predatory songbird. When they catch a small critter to eat, they dispatch it then shove it on a branch or thorn so that they can more easily tear off bite sized pieces, and they also use it as a larder to cache food for when food is scarce…
Can it keep the dang cat away??? Haha!
Lovely tree!
Jennifer wrote:LOL wondered when you guys would notice. The bird on top is a shrike… a predatory songbird. When they catch a small critter to eat, they dispatch it then shove it on a branch or thorn so that they can more easily tear off bite sized pieces, and they also use it as a larder to cache food for when food is scarce…
Sometimes I don’t pick up on the details until later–usually after someone else points them out. Such an educational and naturally correct tree as well. Now that’s unique. Not sure if I want that bird in my house–have some small finches that I like keeping around. 😆
pegasi1978 wrote:Beautiful picture GB, but as Dragon87 said the Merry Christmas is a little hard to read down on the snow.
Yeah – but that there pic shows the sum total of my digital art skills, and I haven’t a clue how to shade things. Any other flat color didn’t look right or was even less readable.
@LadyFirebird: Well, I drive in the snow when there’s no way around. Here I just set it up in the snow for the photo; the road was clear.
Greater Basilisk wrote:pegasi1978 wrote:Beautiful picture GB, but as Dragon87 said the Merry Christmas is a little hard to read down on the snow.
Yeah – but that there pic shows the sum total of my digital art skills, and I haven’t a clue how to shade things. Any other flat color didn’t look right or was even less readable.
An easy trick that I used at the newspaper would be to duplicate the text layer, change the color and move it slightly to one side and down, creating an artificial shadow/outline on one edge.Greater Basilisk wrote:Jennifer, your tree is just too cool. Is the shrike a stuffed bird, or what’s it made out of?
Mostly cardboard, actually! I threw it together pretty quick with scrap materials in the recycling bin.
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My art: featherdust.compegasi1978 wrote:Greater Basilisk wrote:Yeah – but that there pic shows the sum total of my digital art skills, and I haven’t a clue how to shade things. Any other flat color didn’t look right or was even less readable.
An easy trick that I used at the newspaper would be to duplicate the text layer, change the color and move it slightly to one side and down, creating an artificial shadow/outline on one edge.
See, you’ve already lost me, Pegasi. 😳 I put in the text in MS Paint. I do have the GIMP but don’t have a clue how to use most of the functions. I figured out the layers thing once and have consequently forgotten how to do it… 😆 One of these days, when I get around to it… Hah. 😆 But I’ll keep that shadow-creation in mind. That’s clever.
Jennifer wrote:Greater Basilisk wrote:Jennifer, your tree is just too cool. Is the shrike a stuffed bird, or what’s it made out of?
Mostly cardboard, actually! I threw it together pretty quick with scrap materials in the recycling bin.
Cardboard? Seriously? I almost thought it was taxidermied!
Greater Basilisk wrote:Jennifer wrote:Greater Basilisk wrote:Jennifer, your tree is just too cool. Is the shrike a stuffed bird, or what’s it made out of?
Mostly cardboard, actually! I threw it together pretty quick with scrap materials in the recycling bin.
Cardboard? Seriously? I almost thought it was taxidermied!
Oh! No not at all. Cardboard. It’d be quite illegal for me to own one of these birds, dead, alive, or in parts!
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