Introducing the Humming Bird

I've been looking around for the right book to use for my latest project that I'm working on, and eventually came across this beauty....

It's not finished yet...it's a work in progress shall we say & as I'm cutting out by hand, I have to do it a page at a time. Birds have been on my mind for a long time now. Mostly I've been drawing various birds & deciding on which silhouette would suit the book best. The plan is to cut through each page and make a paper sculptural piece with the birds that have been cut out.

The hearts are still mounting, but I've been having problems trying to get the same coloured pen that I had used to do the drawing with. Apparently, they don't make them in that colour anymore, which is a bit of a pain as I wanted them to be uniform and wanted to continue to do as many as possible. Looks like that's no longer possible...hey. Oh well, I've got plenty more ideas to keep me going over the next few weeks in preparation for the exhibition.