The rest of my trees for the set

For the Tinkle-tinkle trees I created a wire mesh column to start the trunk of the tree.  Then with tin foil I made 'sticks' and glued them at the base individually, twisting them round the trunk to get the style of tree that was in my design (picture on the left) 




(Picture below) Here I covered the armature with Sculpey (an oven bake clay) to make the Tinkle-tinkle tree.  I made the hands without an armature and this proved to be quite difficult with the size of them, I then decided to change the original armature.  By putting flat 'pads' on the ends of the 'sticks' that were wrapped round the trunk, which formed both the twisted trunk and branches, made it easier for me to sculpt the hands.

(Left) This is a close up of an example of one of the hands that would be used on the Tinkle-tinkle trees.  This also gives you a sense of the size and the detail in it.

(Below) The finished Tinkle-tinkle tree before being baked, each one of the Tinkle-tinkle trees had 20 (or there abouts) hands on them.

(Left) These pictures are of the construction and finished pieces before baking.  The top two are the Apple trees, the middle two are none specific trees and the bottom two are bushes.  They were all created in the same way as the Tinkle-tinkle trees and the Cherry trees using the same methods.

(Below) These are all the trees I created for my animation set.  After painting them I added foliage to the trees, Cherry trees and bushes.  I painted a glaze over the apples to make them shine and pink and purple flowers were added to the Tinkle-tinkle trees.  The pink and purple flowers were made from Sculpey (the petals) and inside each set of petals there was two sets of three beads strung and glued together to get the effect I wanted.

 

My Cherry Trees

These are what I have created from my designs...

...these are the cherry trees before I painted them...

.. this is after being painted and here I was putting the foliage on...

...this is my Cherry Tree finished with the the cherries on.



The Giraffe, The Pelly and Me - statley home

I started making my stately home out of mount board, I hand cut it all out even though I no I could have used a laser cutter I felt it would give it more character.

I glued all the window sills, frames and sides together to create the stately home and added the brick detail, doorway and roof trim before starting to paint it.

I painted the base colour on first then the window frames and sills, which was quite difficult as the frames are quite small and there is a lot of them.

 I painted the roof trim and the started on painting the marble effect.  I painted on the lines in a colour slightly darker to the base colour and then wash the colour from the line down.  I then used a plastic bag and dry brushed on to it and pressed it on to the walls of the stately home (image on the bottom left)  Then using a wet brush smudged the darker colour that I had just applied to make the marble effect.

Below is my finished model of the stately

 home fully painted.