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Female Northern Cardinal by kelly heaton

Chickadee and sparrow by kelly heaton

I continue to model and assemble paper birds for a large sculptural rendition of my winter feeder. Here’s a chickadee and sparrow. The birds

making nature from paper by kelly heaton

Details of work in progress, February 2019. I modeled the objects in CAD software, unfolded the mesh, print patterns on paper, and reassembled them. This is all an exercise to go from nature into my computer and back out again. My conclusion thus far: it is very hard to make nature with a computer.

Modeling tree branches by kelly heaton

Using Blender to model and Pepakura to produce paper patterns for tree branches.