Was given a couple more mural designs to knock out for Pete so he could go and paint them during the Easter Break.
Staines Preparatory School, Staines
Project Boards
original design i was given to work from.
Re-worked and re-composed design.
'British' Bird mural - Tibshelf Junior School.
Final Project Boards
This design features a selection of patriotic (to GB) birds, although not all of them are found on our shores - it's a strange concept, and it was never fully ( or partially) explained to me. I also had to design a character based on the schools former lollipop man, who had recently died, leaving the school some money - which was used to have the mural painted. Again. i wasnt provided with any details on what he looked like, and despite a thorough search online, i couldnt find any evidence on him - so i just had to go with the classic,elderly gent approach. He might not even have been old..or white?!
I was send a load of 'scribblings' by the youngsters from the school and set the challenge of completely transforming them into something nicer to look at, but using the pupil's drawings a starting point. Pete then selected a number of them an arranged them how he saw fit and sprayed them on the corrugated storage unit.
Drawings birds is fast becoming a running theme this year, but with this project i was keeping a hand drawn look to them. Once i'd done some minor development on them i coloured them and converted them into PNG's so Pete could drag and drop them over each other in order to sort the composition out.
Turns out he got me to do way more characters than were ever going to be used, so most of them didn't make the final cut - but this was done so he had plenty to chose from. Bit annoying, as i could've spend half the time i did on them - but i got paid, and he did a really good job on them, especially on the tricky bumpy surface. They look just like my designs! Just a shame he didn't take any more photos of the final piece.
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