Finally ......

Finally Kalimbas! Another interesting journey involving art, production, music, thoughts of charity and of course TAPIRS.

The blue group is ready

Happy World Tapir Day.  The blue group is ready today and by Monday when the Ottawa branch of the Tapir Appreciation Society will be gathering, the rest of the kalimbas will be ready too.

Putting the tapirs in ..

Putting the tapirs into the kalimba project. There are four different sizes and so there will be four different tapir images. I've started with the 'blue' kalimbas. The images below are created with watercolour and pencil crayon ..... seems to be my materials of choice these days. I wanted to keep a line (white) around the subject as a reference/reflection to the edge (indian fabric print) design. I know they're not anatomically correct but hopefully they have a cheerfulness that I would want for the whole project. Oh yes ..... I'll put in the eyes too!

Colour options

Four different shapes/sizes ... four different colour options. The red stripe across the top is constant for all four types. If there's time, I'd like to add more colour ..... we'll see, just 20days left .... Gulp!