The last few days have been brilliant as I set up position in the middle of the living room. I've been surrounded by rulers, bits of paper, scissors, sellotape, sketch books while I design a new paper theatre that i've been thinking about for the last 2 months. It's more in keeping with traditional paper theatres, so is rectangular rather than circular. The circular format is nice but it's a problem when it comes to installing things into it and you have no base on which to place things.
Here's a page from my sketchbook.
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The line drawing produced after numerous sketches
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A digitally coloured rough it to get an idea of what general colours to use
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There's a story to go with the theatre and i'm hoping to make the sea creature moveable, which might take some fiddling around and prototypes.
I also managed to finish off one small commission, a hair painting to go with the season:
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I have another week off work in which to make a start on the theatre and work out what i'm doing next year!
4 comments:
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.
That's lovely, and the older commission with the 2 birds as well. Your symbolism really speaks to me.
Will you pls contact me - I would like to buy this illustration - just big! inge_hildebrandt@web.de
Just discovered your blog, love your work.
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