Wednesday, April 5, 2017

First Stage Children's Theater










Before Christmas break, my class was given a project to produce three illustrations for three plays that each of us were assigned. Selected illustrations would be printed in a brochure for First Stage Children's Theater. One of the plays I was given was the Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. It is about a china doll rabbit that gets lost by his original owner. He then gets recycled by several owners, giving him different perspectives on life. The book is originally written by Kate DiCamillo and I highly recommend anyone to read it.

For this project I went with the watercolors again. I took the major motifs from the story and put them together in one cohesive composition. This way bits and pieces of the story are shown to the viewer giving them an idea of Edward's journey.

My illustration will be printed for this play's brochure.

This summer I have picked up face painting which is a lot of fun. My painting skills have definitely improved because of this. Th...