Final Major project 'Carnival of animals' update 2

For the last few weeks I have been working really hard to completing pages for my children's book. I have been painting, collaging, researching, been inspired, and used photo-shop to put all my compositions together. I will show you some of my sketch book development work of my animals and elements of a sense of place of where these creatures live in the environment to some compositions I have created where I have merged these features together to create something new and exciting for my children's book.

Sketchbook work of the different animals that will be used in my book; 

Seahorse and a green Fish

Flowers, Sketch of a Seahorse and funky red Fish

Frog in the middle of some leaves

Experimenting with a flying bird, Sea Turtle and some colourful little Fish

Exploring the feature of a lion and on the opposite page two different Sea Turtles

More Funky Sea Turtles in different positions

This is my ultimate Favourite Sea Turtle, I love the vibrant colours I've used I feel they work well with the marks made on the brown paper. 

This is also My ultimate favourite as my 7 year old sister decided she wanted to have ago at interpreting a Sea Turtle and I think its Fantastic, very Inspiring I love the colours, the way the character actually looks like its swimming over the seaweed and the little clown fish is following behind him. Brilliant!

Here is some work from my sense of place sketchbook; 

Sea plants

Sea sponge

These Flowers and other environmental features have been painted using Gouache paints and watercolour and collaged using various materials. I have enjoyed this exploration very much discovering new things, learning about the different plants that live in forests and under the sea.

This has made me want to know and learn more about the features of the environment around me and the creatures that live in the wild. So I have been watching documentaries mainly about sea life as this is something that really intrigues me.