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Submitted: February 13
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Hummingbird 9by ~SeanAvery

Traditional Art / Sculpture / Figurative

Hummingbird commission — one of the last sculptures I'll be doing for a little while!

Width: 35cm
Height: 25 cm
Depth: 10 cm

CD shards (over 40 CDs used)
Wire mesh frame
Hot glue
Gold paint
1 week work time

I use kitchen scissors to cut the shapes I need out of the CDs, then arrange each shard by colour and size. I then hot glue those shards one-by-one to a wire mesh frame to create a natural feather pattern. They usually take a week to make, maybe longer depending on how motivated I am to get them done!

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~TechMech539 Feb 13, 2013

Excellent work. My hat is off to you for how smooth and clean your edges are.

Having done a couple of pieces with CDs myself, I just have to ask... how in the WORLD do you get such clean cuts with scissors? I've tried using tin snips and EMT shears (penny cutters) only to have the CDs fracture with no discernible pattern. I finally had to resort to using a coping saw and files to get the shapes I needed.