Sketch

Below are some initial sketches, where I tried to determine how exactly I wanted to incorporate nature/birds. Ultimately, for the sake of time and aesthetics, I found that the silhouettes of branches satisfied my design needs. From there, I went through a few iterations of designs. The first had the branches (cut from plywood) resting on a clear acrylic backing with tick marks. The second made the branches into two layers with a center backing piece of black acrylic to add support and to block the clock kit. The third added grain, which was traced from a tree in a photo I took, to the front piece. The fourth is the vector tracing of the third image. (In both the third and fourth, the circle backing piece are omitted for clarity.) The final design ultimately flattens elements in the fourth design and omits the extra grain detail.