Back in early June my friend Steph contacted me about possibly doing some artwork, illustrations, logos and badge designs for her charity, Sparrow Squad. I was delighted because this meant that I could produce pretty illustrations, without the trademark arms, limbs and strange concoctions I usually come up with.
Something I didn’t realise, in spite of being a pretend-ornithologist, is that sparrows are decreasing in number all over the UK; this seems to be because their natural habitats are being destroyed. I live in the wilds and have hedge sparrows peering in my windows at every opportunity so their decline was never obvious to me.
Sparrow Squad, as it says on the ‘tin’, help sparrows live where you live. They will be donating feeders similar to my sketches above amongst other things to help bring the sparrow numbers up. The illustrations of nasturtium, sunflower, peanut and elderberry are being printed onto postcards which will be available for sale from their site soon.
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http://www.facebook.com/SparrowSquad
http://sparrowsquad.blogspot.com/
[...] Above is a parcel I packaged up for my friend Steph of Sparrow Squad, you can read about them in my last post: http://thesecondmagpie.wordpress.com/2011/10/02/sparrow-squad-helping-sparrows-live-where-you-live/ [...]