The Country Child

Here are a few early developments on a poster I am working on for the production of Alison Uttleys', 'The Country Child'. The production will be happening some time next year in Derby. Uttley was from Derbyshire (Cromford) and wrote some very well loved books - she was said to be Derbyshire's 'answer to Beatrix Potter' (which I don't think Beatrix Potter liked very much!)

Anyway, onto the poster...

The poster is going to be a mixed media piece, and so far I've worked in Ink ....and of course my favourite; PAPER!:

Ink drawings for the poster background

3D paper sculpture with some digital extras added in!

Silouette of the sculpture

The ink drawing was done to mimic the style of C.F.Tunnicliffe who illustrated many of Uttleys' books. There is still quite a bit of work to be done, I'm still at the fun fun fun stage of making and experimenting.

To be continued...!