Adorned with shades of gray, orange, blue, and white, the female kingfisher perches atop a driftwood filled with moss. Below her is a male kingfisher. With his wings half-open, he offers fish to her.
This realistic sculpture is called “The Mating Proposal”, made by a self-taught artist based on New Delhi, Niharika Rajput.
Over the past five years, the Indian wildlife artist has built around a hundred species.
When she was in college, she joined as an intern at People Tree, a craft boutique. There, she was able to sketch and build a lot of 3D stuff with various materials such as bamboo and rope, and many others.
“That is where I got introduced to building very basic models of birds with epoxy. But I wanted to experiment and make it more realistic. Later, in 2015, when I saw a flock of red-billed blue magpies take off from a pine tree in Himachal Pradesh, I started building birds. I experimented with different materials and landed on the process that I follow now.”
“The Mating Proposal”, which took three months to complete, has been Rajput’s most challenging and longest-running project.
More details about Rajput and her artworks over at Atlas Obscura.
(Image Credit: Kunal Rajput)
Comments (1)
What I want to know is...how long does it take to milk a snail for enough goo to fill one of those teeny little bottles?
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tandf/phbi/1998/00000036/00000001/art00005
just read the first sentence...