Water Babies ... in the Stream

As per previous post, this work has been inspired by the book Water Babies by Charles Knightley. I've used colour copies of various illustrations from the book as well as relief die cuts and other paper ephemera in constructing this double diorama. One large diorama consisting of two smaller ones. In the forefront is the surface of the stream and the back diorama is entering into the depths of the stream and the world of what is going on there. In the previous diorama I switched that order by the top diorama being on the surface of the sea and the bottom diorama being indepth in the sea.

Water Babies ... in the Sea

Sometimes story books can be the inspiration for completing many of my projects, and here it is the Water Babies - an old favourite tale of my mother's generation. I have been inspired by reading an old version of this book. I have developed two dioramas ... in fact four dioramas as there are two dioramas within each larger diorama. One of the dioramas is for stream water babies and the other one is for sea water babies. An immensely enjoyable project.

With beautiful fishes made from jewellery and metal charms. These are yet to come on the diorama.