Georgie Kennett
Colourful & Unusual Animals
Leafy Seadragon
Where they’re found: Along the southern and western coasts of Australia
Red and Yellow Barbet
Where they’re found: Eastern Africa
Southern Crowned Pigeon
Where they’re found: Southern New Guinea
Rainbow Lorikeet
Where they’re found: Australia, eastern Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Hong Kong
Mandarin Duck
Where they’re found: Eastern Asia, Great Britain, Berlin, isolated areas of the U.S. (North Carolina and California)
Grey Crowned Crane
Where they’re found: Sub-Saharan Africa
Lilac-Breasted Roller
Where they’re found: Sub-Saharan Africa, southern Arabian peninsula
Indian Peacock
Where they’re found: Eastern Pakistan through India, south from the Himalayas to Sri Lanka.
Painted Bunting
Where they’re found: Southern U.S., Central America
Chameleon
Where they’re found: Continental Africa, Madagascar, southern Europe, south Asia. They have also been introduced to Hawaii, California, and Florida.
Nicobar Pigeon
Where they’re found: Nicobar Islands, Malay Archipelago, Solomon Islands, Palau
Velvet-Purple Coronet
Where they’re found: West Andean slope in western Colombia and north-western Ecuador
Sunset Moth
Where they’re found: Madagascar
Mandarin Dragonet
Where they’re found: Pacific Ocean, from the Ryukyu Islands south to Australia.
The images above were an inspiration for the project as I began looking at colourful animals and focusing on skin and colours, I particularly found the birds and reptile skins the most colourful and interesting. I decided to look at reptile skins also, I particularly like the birds and the colours in them could be very interesting to replicate with hair. I might look into birds of paradise because they are also very colourful birds and it could be a great place to start.
Birds Vs Reptiles
Thought about how I could show the reptile skin through hair and I thought about how whether it would be best to use a wig or hair frame. I do like the textures very much and I did a design to see if I would like to use reptiles as a base of my projects however I then began looking at the birds of paradise and found a few species I liked much more than the reptile skins.