Rainbow Lorikeet jugbird – Gillian McMillan

Rainbow Lorikeet jugbird

Rainbow Lorikeet

Some time ago an Australian woman asked me to make a Rainbow Lorikeet jugbird for water, juice or soft drink. Finally I've made one, somewhat bigger than my usual ones. I used 2 lbs of clay like my largest Peregrine Falcon. I'll send her these photos now and find out if she still wants it. Surface mail is roughly $23 for many weeks and air…

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June 7th, 2015

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Rainbow Lorikeet jugbird

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Four jugbirds

Here are the other four jugbirds from the recent firing. There's a Stellar's Jay, our local Blue Jay. He's a noisy fellow! Then I've made a new Kookaburra to remind us of our amazing trip Down Under. We saw the Rainbow Lorikeets in a big park in Melbourne. …

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September 17th, 2014

Gillian McMillan combines a true love for birds, a fine eye for colour, hands which have learnt to mould clay, and a free-flying imagination ready to form a bird into a jug, or a jug into a bird. Either way, the combination of bird form and jug shape is without pretence.