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.

Paintings

These are a couple of paintings from some photos I took that I quite liked.

Butterfly, acrylic and pencil. 

By using the acrylic quite thick it give the picture more texture.

Old bridge in france, watercolour and pencil.

Roald Dahl- The giraffe, the pelly and me

The Giraffe, the Pelly and Me by Roalh Dahl.

The book i have chosen is briefly about a boy called Billy who wants to make an old sweet shop a sweet shop again but it is bought by a giraffe, a pelican and a monkey. They have a Ladderless Window Cleaning company and need the boys help. They get a job from the duke to clean his manor, when cleaning his manor they see a jewellery thief in action and act upon it.  To repay them for catching the thief the duke lets the giraffe, pelican and monkey live with him on his estate and the boy gets to make the marvellous sweet shop with help from the Duke.

I am creating sets for animation for the book and these are some of my designs...

 This is an apple tree, I have used hands to hold the apples.  I decided to use this theme throughout the trees. 

 Cherry tree.

Tinkle tinkle tree

This is the final design for my sweet shop set. 

The final design for the tinkle tinkle tree plantation with the back of the stately home in view.



Background design for an advertising project.

I chose the channel E4 for the advertising project I had in 2nd year,

these are backgrounds I designed for the animation.

I made the flower from the designs above for a stop motion animation.  I had never done this before so it was my first time but I managed to create one from the story board I had made.  I didn't find it very difficult but I did realise how many frames you had to have to make it flow.
Below is the flower that I had made.  It is made from material that I dyed myself so I had the exact colours I wanted.  I then cut out a pattern and sewed it together and stuffed it with wadding, the stem and leaves had wire in them so I was able to bend and move them where I wanted.  In the picture at the bottom I had created a base for the flower to grow through, I made the mud/soil from sawdust and PVA glue and then painted it.

These are a few different angles of a 60's style living room I made, it is in the scale of 1:25.