Every artist needs a muse. Mine is my pet bird Poppet. Poppet is an Eastern Corella parrot. He has a larger than life personality, so I have immortalised him in a large scale cardboard  sculptural portrait.

I stripped back cardboard box core to create texture for this feathers and used thin brown paper to capture the crepe of his eye bags. Poppet has quite a good vocabulary, including his trademark phrase ‘Poppet’s Out’ which he announces regularly as the fee ranges around our yard.

I am a Cert 4 visual art student and this was my first attempt at a cardboard sculpture. The jaw is articulated.

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