Celebration post!

[amberdreams]

I put in five designs for a sculpture trail in Norwich next year, and one has been picked out! So sometime in the next few weeks I'll be taking delivery of a 75kg hare sculpture to paint. I can't remember if I posted about the designs here or not, but the winning design is called Norwich Hareport and features some fairy-winged flying hares.

I'm eyeing up our living room space again and wondering where we are going to put the giant critter, while simultaeously doing random happy dances!

Then tonight in sketchbooking class we studied contrast. We were looking at tone and colour, and I had a go at a wolf in gouache. I was quite pleased how he turned out.

Must to a sketchbook round up post sometime soon too.

In the meantime, I need to complete three designs for each of the following sculpture trails for next year - a giant robin dressed as Robin Hood for Nottingham's Hoodwinked trail, 7ft tall giraffes for Worcester, and giant penguins for Dundee. Hee hee my life, huh?

Comments

[jj1564.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! I'm sure you'll be able to squeeze the hare in somehow - you managed to get the bears and the lion in! However, I'm not so sure about the 7ft giraffes!!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

The giraffes could be a little (or a large!) problem to solve - though our house, being old, does have reasonably high ceilings!

[borgmama1of5.livejournal.com]

Awesome!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

thank you!

[somer.livejournal.com]

I love wolves. Wolves are beautiful. And yours is no exception.

Oh my god, another sculpture LMAOOO Well, remembering the previous ones, I can't wait to see more of your new projects!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Wolves are awesome, and my hubby's fave too. As for the sculpture... it's going to be interesting!

[zara-zee.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the hare project...and I love the wolf! :)

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Thank you!! So excited!

[madebyme-x.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, congratulations! I'm looking forward to seeing all of these - how exciting! I love your wolf, the contrast with the purple works really well :)

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Thanks bunches!

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on picking up a hare design, I can't wait to see it taking shape :)
Love the wolf too - he's a beaut!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Thankee on both counts!

[sillie]

Oh, that wolf is lovely.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Aw thank you! He's kind of scrappy but I like how he turned out.

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

HAREPORT. you should have some rabbits flying planes! maybe some nice ww1 open cockpit fighter planes, with hares wearing goggles and those helmets pilots used to wear. how cool, in any case, that they picked one of your designs! and yeah, you fit bears in your house, theoretically a hare, a robin, and a penguin should fit too. a seven-foot giraffe does seem a bit big, tho.

the wolf looks really nice!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Damn, I should have done that, especially as it's the 100th anniversary of the end of WW1 next year...

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

Well done bb, congratulations I can't wait to start seeing progress reports and piccies, and you figuring out where to sneak the giant Hare in ;)

That wolf is gorgeous, he came out really well :D

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

I don't think there's any way to sneak something that size into the house LOL!! Thank you!

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

Send him out for coffee, and then when he gets back pretend it's always been in the middle of the living room ;)

[999alena.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! Fantastic news

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Thanks Alison!

[fridayblues.livejournal.com]

Yey congrats!!!!
I used to live in Norwich! Where would yr sculpture be placed?? I'm excited just to read about *your art* and *Norwich* in the same paragraph cause I'm fond of both :D:D:D
xxx

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Really? Small world, huh? I used to work in Norwich, commuted every day. I love the city! Were you there long?

Anyhow, apparently my sponsor is Castle Mall so I'm assuming the sculpture will be inside the shopping centre somewhere, though they won't reveal placements until the trail is launched.

[fridayblues.livejournal.com]

I studied at UEA for a year and lived in the university dorm. I didn't get to hang out in the city center much except when I had to work at a Thai restaurant. But hey! Castle Mall is a cool place to have your art. I hope you share pictures :) I'm feeling a bit nostalgic now. *sniffs*
Oh wow, you used to commute there for work every day? I was exhausted just to traveling from UEA to the city center, which is a 25 min ride on a bus! lol

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

yes, I did that twice - once when I drove every day and worked in an office on Duke Street, and the second time (having learned my lesson about the driving thing) by train when I had to then get a bus to an industrial estate out near the Postwick Park & Ride. It still beat commuting to London! Norwich is so much more civilised LOL.

What did you study? And only a year?