Visiting George!

Friday night saw the Preview Party for Go Penguins, and tomorrow George gets installed in the Lady Lever Art Gallery on the Wirral!

Do go visit him, he's on show until early January, when he shall move on to icebergs new!

You can visit the Lady Lever website for more information, including George's own page and their visitor information, with the museum open 10am-5pm daily.

Do also visit the Go Penguins website for more information on the whole project, and for details about the Winter's Trail that the Penguins form.

And see all the Penguins in their glory at the Go Penguins Gallery at Art in Liverpool where George again has his own page.

Goodbye for now, George.

Well, Thursday saw George be packaged up and taken back to the secret Penguin hideout in Liverpool, where he was able to rejoin his friends, who interestingly all looked rather different from last time they saw each other. He is now sat in a rather bizarre warehouse, waiting to be installed at the Lady Lever on the morning of Monday 23rd November. Before that I believe he has some publicity, but I know he is confident and distinguished enough to cope, having been raised well. He also will be attending a launch party the week prior to that, which I may or may not accompany him to as his date. I miss having George here, I used to regularly just go in and stroke his beak... *sigh* However, I met with people from the Lady Lever on Monday afternoon, and they are lovely and I know George shall feel at home there. He will be in the room with the busts, the old entrance, so do say hello if you pass by over Christmas :) Where his travels shall take him come January who knows, but I shall certainly keep you updated.

Pictures from Thursday:

Red carpet treatment!

Being packaged up...

Secret base. And a secret agent.

A complete overview:

Look at Me - Go Penguins by ~bicyclegasoline on deviantART

Now for a couple of weeks of bedrest lol. Altho my official Creative Chaos Art website really needs to be built too, then hopefully this shall all be transfered across as well :)

George is finished!

Seriously! I managed to remove myself from the depths of my bed for half an hour today to finish George. I feel more ill than I have in a long time, and I'm preparing for an almighty crash next week, but George is finished, and makes a statement, and that is all that matters right now. I am so happy to have actually managed this!

He will spend the next 24 hours drying, then he will be wrapped up in bubble wrap before returning to base on Thursday. Got some paperwork to do in the next few days too...

Photos? Alright ;)

Just after I'd finished the 2 coats of varnish.

Poor quality from my phone, but my Dad decided to take the door off to remove George, to avoid anymore damage to paintwork. On the door that is...

Nearly Finished!

Well, the last few days have been manic.

Thursday, Friday and Saturday were spent making sure all the text was finished, as well as the highlights on the feet, and the eyes.

On Sunday I had a few last minute touching up bits to do, and today the first coat of varnish went on. Tomorrow will hopefully see the second coat of varnish go on, and then he should be dry in time to be returned to base on Thursday. Most of the photos at this stage are very same-y, just showing the painting of the letters, but here's a few of the latest anyway!

Lettering finished, and half way through painting eyes. (Do you like how 99% of my photos are taken at night?!)

The finished eyes, altho I think they still needed neatening at this stage. I decided against the eyebrows, as the only penguins that have eyebrows are the ones that have the huge yellow eyebrows, and I thought he'd look stern with black ones :) I'm aware the eyes don't quite look forward enough when you stand in front of him, but I thought they'd look odd from the side if they went any further forward, verging on cross-eyed, so this made sense!

The back at this stage.

After first coat of varnish today:

I've also hopefully going to the Lady Lever Art Gallery on Friday to meet with the people behind the scenes of this, which I'm excited about!