Magical...

On the first of september I started my final year of studying. This means that the next couple of months I will be an intern. Thank the gods not the coffee making kind! The first of my internships (I'm going to do several) is with Ingrid Friesen, a freelance illustrator. Together with my classmate Andrea we go to her about once every two weeks.

One of the assignments we got was to design an illustration that was to be painted on a drainage tube that serves as a plaything for children at a primary school in Oss. In the end it really turned out to be a wonderful combination of our different input and a mix of several techniques and materials.

Before we started it looked like this:

Not very inspirational at this point.

The theme we chose for the tube was magic and fairytales. Since this is not the only object that's going to get a lick of paint we wanted to have a theme to tie everything together. At this time the other objects aren't ready to be painted yet (a sandbox and a playhouse), so that is something for the future.

When we had finished this is what the drainage tube looked like:

Ingrid's side

Andrea's and my side.

My personal part of the project.

A couple of days after Ingrid finished the inside, since we didn't have time to do it on the day we were there. If you want to see the results of that, visit her blog.

We got loads of positive reactions (up to the point where it got annoying, haha) but it's good to know it was so appreciated what we were doing.

And last, an overview of the mess we made: