Beatrix Potter

Thinking back to when I was a child I was remembering some of the children's books I used to love and read about which were mostly based on animals. 'Peter rabbit' by Beatrix Potter was one of my favourites as well as 'Fantastic mr fox' by Roald Dahl as I enjoy the playful characters she has produced wearing clothes I thought this was a great element to add to the animals to give them a more sense of personality.

Peter Rabbit was based around her lovely real pet rabbit that she called 'Peter' and this is when she started to sketch rabbits however adding the feature of jackets or any other clothing.

Here are some images of her work from 1902;

She has also done lots of sketches for the feel of a sense of place of what surrounds the characters what is in the environment, this is what I am currently focusing on throughout my own project as it is based on animals I am also looking at plants, flowers, leaves, trees, grass etc working with different materials which will hopefully give me the outcome I want.