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amberdreams) wrote2020-04-09 07:56 pm
amberdreams) wrote2020-04-09 07:56 pm
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Busy times - 2020 Menagerie update Part 1
*waves from lockdown* hope everyone is doing ok!
I'm actually quite busy at the moment, which feels weird when most people I know aren't. Mind you, once this elephant is done, I will be looking around for things to fill the days...
It's been an age since I did an update on my annual animals, and even though all of this year's sculpture trails have now been postponed to 2021, I was lucky enough to have had several designs commissioned prior to the current disaster. So I've painted a cow, an octopus, an otter and an elephant, and am in the middle of painting my second elephant right now. I'm enjoying it a lot!
The one I'm working on now is another Beatles themed one, because the trail is in Maidstone. The Beatles filmed some of Magical Mystery Tour, Strawberry Fields Forever and I Am the Walrus just outside the town, at a disused airfield, and so it was the perfect excuse to revisit a Magical Mystery theme.
So far I've nearly finished the Walrus side
and started on the Yellow Submarine side
The elephant's bum has the red cast iron gates from the real Strawberry Fields in Liverpool, while the front is going to have a vintage bus to Penny Lane with the four Beatles popping up out of the top deck.
Meanwhile the finished elephant is sitting in the conservatory waiting to be varnished. It's an Olympic themed one called Olympiphant, so it's a good job the Olympics have been postponed along with the trail!
I featured paralympians as the main figures for lots of reasons, but design-wise, I thought they are more dynamic and the wheelchair fits better with the shape of the elephant.
Side one
Side two (before it was finished)
The main body has the Japanese rising sun, while the front has the Union flag with the GB lion. The rear has the Olympic flame, and other sports are represented by pictograms around the feet. The cherry blossom is part of the Japanese theme.
I won't spam you with all the sculptures at once, so I'll do another post to round up the rest. And I'm due a sketchbook round up at some point too - bet y'all can't wait, huh?! Ha ha!
I'm actually quite busy at the moment, which feels weird when most people I know aren't. Mind you, once this elephant is done, I will be looking around for things to fill the days...
It's been an age since I did an update on my annual animals, and even though all of this year's sculpture trails have now been postponed to 2021, I was lucky enough to have had several designs commissioned prior to the current disaster. So I've painted a cow, an octopus, an otter and an elephant, and am in the middle of painting my second elephant right now. I'm enjoying it a lot!
The one I'm working on now is another Beatles themed one, because the trail is in Maidstone. The Beatles filmed some of Magical Mystery Tour, Strawberry Fields Forever and I Am the Walrus just outside the town, at a disused airfield, and so it was the perfect excuse to revisit a Magical Mystery theme.
So far I've nearly finished the Walrus side
and started on the Yellow Submarine side
The elephant's bum has the red cast iron gates from the real Strawberry Fields in Liverpool, while the front is going to have a vintage bus to Penny Lane with the four Beatles popping up out of the top deck.
Meanwhile the finished elephant is sitting in the conservatory waiting to be varnished. It's an Olympic themed one called Olympiphant, so it's a good job the Olympics have been postponed along with the trail!
I featured paralympians as the main figures for lots of reasons, but design-wise, I thought they are more dynamic and the wheelchair fits better with the shape of the elephant.
Side one
Side two (before it was finished)
The main body has the Japanese rising sun, while the front has the Union flag with the GB lion. The rear has the Olympic flame, and other sports are represented by pictograms around the feet. The cherry blossom is part of the Japanese theme.
I won't spam you with all the sculptures at once, so I'll do another post to round up the rest. And I'm due a sketchbook round up at some point too - bet y'all can't wait, huh?! Ha ha!
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It's been a bit of a weird painting year so far. I was lucky to have got some animals early on, and the two elephants were delivered to me in February before everything kicked off. I got back from painting a ram in Derby just before they restricted travelling and went on full lock down... I'll be doing a couple more posts about this lot later on so watch this space! :D
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Just think, one day you'll look back on this time and tell people how you were locked down in quarantine, just you your husband and two elephants! XD
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