Firebird

Hi everyone, today is Bonfire Night in the UK (when I was younger it was known as Guy Fawkes Night but I think these days most people don't even know that the origin of having a bonfire was to burn an effigy of Guy Fawkes, who with others attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament. I remember the fun of stuffing a pair of my dads old trousers and a jumper with paper or straw and making a funny face out of an old stocking and needle and thread. Building the bonfire was a serious business and we used to keep an eye on one of our neighbours who always built the biggest! My dad used to set off a few fireworks on our lawn too.

We were never allowed to take our guy out but often used to see children outside shops with their guys asking for a 'penny for the guy' before the night to go and buy fireworks - no safety rules in those days!!!  

I suppose the idea of burning someone was pretty gruesome and the tradition became less important. Of course this year there aren't any public firework displays but generally there can be quite a choice in an area - much better than having fireworks at close quarters.

My page today is fire related....

....it came about because I didn't like the background I had made. I covered some of it with red paint and then went around the edges with black paint to give an appearance of a fire in the centre. The choice of bird was easy, this inkadinkado bird has sparkly pen colouring(which sadly doesn't show here)I added some gold mica flakes around on the black and used the computer to add to the 'F' already added with texture paste. 

I am joining in at Art Journal Journey and Wendy's 'Birds' theme.

Thanks for looking, Chris