Butter Market mural cont. Coming together

As we finally had the panels cut to the right size after some confusion when ordering them, we managed to make all the pieces fit together to make the right sized rectangle that would fit in between Rhiannon and Georgia's two jigsaw like large panels, the panels that we used were off cuts from other larger pieces, luckily we had just what we needed. The next step was to put a white primer on the panels and then put the first base colour on. 

The yellow was taken from Rhiannon and Georgia's colour palette, as well as the red we used, Emma and i mixed the remaining blue colour, this was because we wanted there to be some continuation from their panels and ours, but we also wanted a blue that was slightly brighter and would stand out more. 

The small panels in the photo above are the detachable name plates of the stalls in the butter market, we were emailed all the names and were asked to incorporate these into our design. Emma has the best hand rendered typography out of the two of us, so we agreed she would create these to put on the other large panels. This should create a 3D element that the mayor seemed to be interested in, in hindsight it would have been nicer to have other 3D parts on the mural, perhaps in the actual illustrations, but this task seemed big enough and this would have taken much more time, of which we were running out of. 

The arrangement of  how we want to display the base panels and the small name panels, we mostly grouped them together because we wanted to create a blocky arrangement that would correspond with the design of the mural as a whole. 

One of the illustrations for a panel painted by me, i used masking tape to create straight lines so i could have a box to work with, i decided to make the fish shapes with negative space because it limited the number of colours i needed to use on this panel, we need to make this task as easy for ourselves as possible, and washing brushes takes up a lot of time in between painting, also i feel the negative space works in this one.

This is the only panel to feature people, and i think this was a good idea because it took along time to get the lines right, i found it difficult to 'draw' with a brush. But i like the way it turned out, perhaps i would have made it slightly busier if i'd have had more time. 

First finished panel. 

Hand drawn typography done by Emma, i think these will fit perfectly with the illustrations on the panels, they're the same kind of free hand quality. 

A couple of small illustrations i drew on the remaining small panels. 

Now that the panels are now fully illustrated and the name plates are completed, we only need to put them together, and then we need to varnish the front and back of the panels and finally touch up some parts of the back colour, all things considered i feel we have made good time so far. 

Hopefully we should have the panels completely finished and on their way to be put up in the Butter Market by next week.