'Nonsense'

Lord Whitney came to visit us at Stockport College not so long ago and set us a fun brief, in order to relieve us of the dreaded thoughts about our final projects, and get us making something.
They set us the task of illustrating any of Edward Lear's 'nonsense' stories (Find a collection of his work here)

I chose a the small tale of Mr Lear, The Polly and The Pussybite.

"Mr. Lear goes out a walking with Polly and the Pusseybite. Mr. Lear, feeling tired, and also the Polly and the Pusseybite, sit down on a wall to rest.

Mr. Lear, the Polly and the Pusseybite go into a shop to buy a Numbrella, because it began to rain. Mr. Lear, the Polly and the Pusseybite having purchased umbrellas, proceed on their walk.

Mr. Lear, the Polly and the Pusseybite arrive at a bridge, which being broken they do not know what to do. Mr. Lear, the Polly and the Pusseybite all tumble promiscuous into the raging river and become quite wet.

A page missing here from the manuscript.

Mr. Lear, the Polly and the Pusseybite peruse their journey in a benevolent boat. Mr. Lear, the Polly and the Pusseybite incidentally fall over an unexpected cataract, and are all dashed to atoms.

A page missing here from the manuscript.

The 2 venerable Jebusites fasten the remains of Mr. Lear, the Polly and the Pusseybite, but fail to reconstruct them perfectly as 3 individuals.

Mr. Lear and the Pusseybite and the Pollycat and the 2 Jebusites and the Jerusalem Artichokes and the Octogonal Oysterclippers all tumble into a deep hole and are never seen or distinguished or heard of never more afterwards."

I have mentioned in my previous posts, that I have had chance to think about what it is I would like to do after University, so I thought it would be best to tackle this brief with a new approach. I decided to start working in 3D, without jumping too far away from my flat collage work, after all this was a first attempt at this sort of thing.

I made a flat collage version of the image too, just to keep both working methods running alongside each other. I think that this helps me work out how I am going to bring all the separate elements to life, as well as show a diverse range of work in my portfolio.