Detail One - Focussing on dying paper realistically to resemble more life-like leaves

Detail Two - The assemblage and colour of the frame

All components of the whole composition assembled and laid out and ready to be positioned and attached to the A2

 Final crow: with bent feathers and texture

 Whole Project

 3D plant

 3D Fern

Practice feathers

Lilly pad paper layers:

Texture on the first fly traps:

Working Composition:

Top - Prototype showing the exterior walls and the magnification of them as you look inside the box 

2nd - The jealous flowers entwined in vines

3rd - Dead flower 

4 - Inside the box showing the crazy interior world 

Bottom - Layout of the top of the box 

Progress in Layers

Progress in layering

I have created the flower to be more 3D using paint and paper cut outs, it makes the childs hand feel like they are much more entrapped. I have also worked on making the bumble bees wings 3D using acetate, as it was more effective than trace and wire.

I have worked on the frame using paper cut out to look like a chapter of a book, I looked at precedents of illustrative framing in books and made an ivy themed cut out for my frame. I used a green background to give a fairy tale feel and look like an old book. I have also layered acetate over my carnivorous plants to give more depth.

I also have remade my entire mechanism so it works more easily, is more sturdy and has more depth as the layers are more 3D now.

This is my collage as it stands now I am now working on the section through the flower using paper cuts and ink to give stain and colour to the paper. I also have work to do on the background and I need to make another flower 3D for the layer where the child is eaten, here the flower will be less bright to show how the child has changed in the final scene.

 the detail on cutout tree

process work. after this i dcided to change the composition

planing to cut out maybe grass or branches for the background

Images showing the model's progression from background to foreground as it was built. I still have some finishing touches to put on, and now I'm going to start working out how to arrange artificial lighting at the exhibition.