Our supplies arrived! All the crayons, pens, scissors and double sided sticky tape you could ask for! It was a little bit like christmas - I may have to buy my own set of stuff from YPO again because of how cheap it is. Jessie very kindly covered the upfront payment (all of our expenses were reimbursed or covered by ANORAK) - and picked them up closer to the time of the first event at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
As for the Box - It was a bit of a beast, but also the perfect size, it turned out. I wanted to cut the front out, and paint the exterior white to neaten it, and also get ride of the bike logo across the back of it.
This is what it looked like after it's first and second coats. I approached painting it the same way I painted the Thought Bubble boxes - colour layer first, details and lines on top. It took me about 5 hours to paint it in its entirety.
I know from experience that Cardboard will get ratty very easily if it's dragged about along it's surfaces - and even a layer of acrylic paint won't stop that from happening. To counter this, and also to neaten up the edges, I 'lined' them, using black duct tape - and I covered the entire underside base of it, to stop it from getting too beaten up.
This actually proved to be a brilliant idea - because this survived being trawled all the way to Yorkshire Sculpture Park AND London almost completely unscathed - still looking good as new! I was very sad to see it go, to be honest.
With all of our bits arrived, we were all ready to go for the Drawing Imaginarium at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park! Very Exciting!
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