Sensory Area Space Images for Younger Visitors

Puggsy's Flying Saucer

Cute Kitten perhaps sat on a planet playing with it like a ball.

Flower Power Rocket with Peppa pig, George Pig & Thomas the Tamk Engine onboard.

Barbie Character as an Astonaut breaking new frontiers/stereo types!

Lion Cub, Baby Elephant, riding the space Shuttle

Tiger Cub, Orang-Utan in Flying Saucer Baby Penguin surfing a comet

Baby Rabbit with Carrot, sat on the Moon

Peppa Pig Character having Sweet Dreams sat on the Moon.

Clarification required as to suitability.

Nemo like Space Rocket

Flower Power Space Rocket. Additional characters can be added to portholes, such as frequent, special patients, members of staff or other child friendly characters.

Astronaut character. Face detail to be added based on suggestions for Flower Power Rocket above.

Space Rocket Height Chart

A Penguin Shaped Space Rocket Height Chart may be produced on Foamex & may be fixed to the pillar to the left of the bay in which the Sensory area is located. My image has Bambi, Dumbo & Giraffe characters to represent different heights. Exact details of heights & accuracy to be agreed if a height chart project is undertaken. Note allowance in the height measurements will need to be made for the skirting board surrounding the bottom of the pillar if measurements are to be accurate.

Sensory Area Deep Space Images

Bright Colours to be used for Sensory Area Deep Space Background

Smiley Sun Inner Planets

Outer Planets

Smiley Sun Character produced using very bright yellows, child friendly.

Inner Planets, Mercury, Earth, Venus & Mars. Also showing Asteroid Belt.

Outer Planets Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus & Pluto

Earth, Venus, Mercury.

Uranus

Saturn

Jupiter

Neptune

Sensory Area Deep Space Background

The Deep Space Background area will take up two thirds of the main mural directly above the foreground images of views from earth. My intention is to make it as bright & textured as possible. See coloured image example which directly follows this post. It is to include a mixture of media e.g. watercolour, acrylic, acrylic ink, stick on stars, glitter dust to make it bright & interesting. The background will feature a large bright smiley Sun in the top right corner. The inner planets, Mercury, Earth, Venus & Mars. The asteroid belt. The outer planets, Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus & Pluto. There may also be comets, stars, galaxies various characters, rockets etc depending on those chosen to be printed on 5mm Foamex. To add to the sensory effect it was hoped that the projector currently not being used in the Butterfly area could be moved to the sensory area to project light shape/images on to the mural. If this is not possible a cheaper alternative may be if we were to be able to have holes drilled through the mural by the printers through which Christmas lights could protrude to provide an impression of stars. I am not sure if this would be agreeable & meet health & safety requirements but it is an option. Deep Space Background images will follow this post.

Sensory area Foreground images Views from Earth

Sensory Areas "views from Earth" (lower left hand side) of mural see above.

Nurse showing young patient the stars.

Owl with young chicks watching over child & nurse.

Ducks Quacking.

Children holding hands.

Children playing.

Children sharing.

Mum & child receiving gift of a beautiful flower.

Young person with physical challenges being helped by a nurse.

All children should be able to have dreams, to reach for the stars. The paralympics provides great inspiration for us all.

Father & Son gazing at the stars.

Sensory Area Foreground Views from Earth Left hand side work in progress (see above). Beach Scene. Including "Welcome to Childrens Outpatients Notice" a beautiful Sunset. Views of Children, Dolphins, Meerkats in the middle foreground area representing diversity of life on Earth (See below). Space Shuttles & Radar Dishes on horizon, reference to ET & our wish that patients can go home soon. On the right hand side will be an Arctic scene featuring Icebergs & cute Polar Bears (See below) . Representing our need to care both for patients, wildlife & our planet.

Children playing with beach ball shaped as Earth symbolising the future of the Earth & our children's future is in our hands.

Young Girl looking up at Stars Dreaming of her future.

Meerkat friends looking upwards at horizon.

Dancing Dolphins in the bay

ET Going Home on Bike ridden by his friend.

"Hope you can go home soon" image of ET with banner to be attached to back of bicycle, riding across moon on the horizon.

Large Radar Telescope Dishes

Space Shuttle taking off on the horizon.

Cute Polar bear Cub image

Cute Polar Bear Cub, back lit looking up to the stars

Cute Polar Bear Cubs holding their paws out sympathetically. View of icebergs behind representing the different landscapes of earth & also conveying thoughts towards mankind needing to look after planet earth to prevent global warming.

Sensory Area Mural (Foreground)

This Mural will show in the lower Third views from earth looking towards the horizon & stars. It will include "looking to the stars", a scene on a beach with a nurse showing a child the stars through a telescope. Children playing with a beach ball shaped like the earth held between their outstretched arms. Meerkat Friends in Africa holding each other looking to the stars. Dolphins looking upwards to the stars dancing in the sea. A young teenage girl looking dreamily looking upwards to the stars based around the Walt Disney Quote " All our dreams can come true if we have the courage and determination to pursue them". A scene based on the iconic Et Film image "Going Home" on a bicycle being ridden in sky with the moonlight behind them. On the right hand side will be a some very cute looking polar bear cubs including two holding their paws appealingly and one beautifully back lit. On the horizon will be a strip of Land which goes from scenes of a space shuttle taking off, large telescopes in America, to the polar icecaps. Examples of the art work will follow in the next post.

Proctuction meeting for the Sensory Area Mural

The main wall space for the mural is 8 ft 4 inches wide. The height (from top of skirting board to the edge of the ceiling tiles) is 7 ft 7 inches. There is also a side wall which is 5 ft 5 inches wide by 7 ft 7 inches high.

There are two possible options for producing the mural:-

Option 1

Produce the artwork full size using MDF, cut the images manually to sizes to suit. Hand paint using acrylic paint System 3 Daler Rowney & varnish images.

Similar to stage scenery. I could divide the mural into a foreground section (the earth with the telescope, children & moon). A left section (Buzz Lightyear & rockets). A right section (various planets,stars, Dr Who TARDIS etc) . Middle section (Galaxy). Top section distant space.

The advantages are we can produce layered images & modify the design as the mural progresses. I can amend the perspective/content as we progress. There may be a cost saving.

The disadvantage is the time this may take & the ease of cleaning may not be of the same quality as the specially manufactured images available from the printer.

Option 2

Produce the mural as a painting approx A2 or A1 using any paint medium. This could then be manufactured by the printing company by enlarging it & cutting into various shapes to suit the wall space.

We would need advice from the printing company Chris Waters at Service Graphics Limited in Salisbury (tel 01722 321 736) to determine:-

The size of image I would need to paint that would provide a suitable quality to be enlarged to fit the wall space.

The most cost effective way of dividing/cutting the images.

The advantage would be the quality of the artwork is likely to be greater as the time it would take to produce details on a smaller piece of artwork would be significantly less. The manufacturing & hygienic qualities may be of a higher standard than an entirely hand made product. The disadvantage may be the cost.

Actions:-

I need to produce a more detailed sketch with a more realistic perspective to represent how the finished mural will look, to superseed the current cut & paste image displayed here.

I/we can discuss with Chris the most cost effective way of producing the various images/section of scenery to make up the mural based on the premis of the printer manufacturing the sections of the mural.

Meeting notes:-

After meeting with Abi an ideal way of proceeding may be to have the background of space printed on material & a combination of MDF & printed material to give a 3D effect to specific images. The overall size of the panels are to allow approx 6 inches clearance all round i.e. top, bottom , left & right. No 3D images below 3 ft from the skirting board to allow for easier cleaning & to prevent damage. Buz character to be reduced & moved to side panel & replaced by a generic spaceman figure. Establish prefered material types & standard sizes of printed material together with the most effective way to proceed with Chris.