Month: August 2014
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Swallow update.
The famous five have now taken to being fed on the TV aerial rather than staying in the wood shed. The parents show their amazing flying skills by constantly feeding them on the wing.
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Feeding Time – Swallows
We have five recently-fledged swallows in the wood shed at the moment. They have made a few flights in and out but seem to prefer perching on this scaffolding board while the parents zoom in and feed them.
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Finished Bridge
Finished the replacement bridge. For drawings and other photo see this earlier post.
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Tiny House not vacant?
Further to the previous post – tiny house vacant – this morning I had a wonderful surprise and found our Mallard Mum and her eight ducklings sailing around the big pond at Shangri La – who knows they may even have spent the night in the duck hotel!
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bridge
Bridge design for Shangri La Farm to replace what was basically an eight metre plank which finally gave way. Now under construction.
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Edinburgh Modern Quilt Guild Logo
I have just finished designing the logo for the Edinburgh Modern Quilt Guild. It blends the colours from their parent body – the Modern Quilt Guild which was formed in Los Angeles in October of 2009, with an iconic view of Edinburgh Castle taken from one of my photographs. I drew the outlines using Adobe Illustrator then added…
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Owl Nest Box
Owl nest box from scrap plywood. 2011. Being sized up by a pair of Jackdaws as a potential “des-res”.
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Shangri La Bridge in the snow.
Japanese lantern juxtaposed with wooden bridge and vanishing point through the Scots Pines.
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Shangri La Duck House
Built out of scrap fencing and plywood. So far it has only housed a wasps nest; I haven’t plucked up the courage to actually get some water fowl.
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Jonathan Avery
I am excited to have finally taken my new website LIVE – jonathanavery.com. Its been a lengthy and cathartic process and has helped me to make sense of the last thirty years career-wise, but there is still lots to add. I am going to use this as my main blog and Facebook feed from now on.
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myBearpawBlock
This is the compact square version of the logo for Jo’s shop myBearpaw in Edinburgh. I also designed the fascia and window signage.
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Renovation Service Graphic
This advertised the kitchen renovation and rebuilding service from Jonathan Avery Homestore. Drawn in Adobe Illustrator on a Mac.
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Shangri La Farm Logo
This pair of sister logos are for my new venture building tiny house structures.
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Tiny House Scotland Logo
A pair of sister logos for my new venture Tiny House Scotland – Shangri La Farm.
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BBC1 Look North Dec 1984
Studio interview for the local BBC North East local news show Look North to report my having won joint second (wow!) in the Amateur Photographer of the Year competition. They kindly printed up three huge black and white shots I had taken of local landscapes – warehouses below the Metro Bridge, an alley-way in Silver St, Durham and…
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BBC2 Home Front 1995
Appeared on this interiors home show to extoll the virtues of working with MDF – no knots, no grain, ability to cut smooth curves, uniformity etc etc. It was shot in my first workshop in the cottage at Darlingfield with some good exposure for the small cupboard range. Ran for years on the repeat TV…