The Paint Call

On the Tuesday of this week the scenic artists had their time on the stage again to finish painting all of the floor, it was a really good thing to be apart of and taught me that being in scenic you have to be organised, get things done to a tight schedule and team work!
So here are some photos and I'll go through how we achieved the final piece!


To begin with we gridded up the floor into 1 metre square blocks then drew up the paving blocks with chalk on sticks and the others began stencilling in the doily



We then painted the base colour of the paving blocks in grey and the doily as a white cirlce




A grey/green/brown wash was then painted over the paving blocks whilst others outlined the block so that when it came to repainting the floor black the paving blocks were still rectangles.


Here is the doily painted without the grey highlights yet, so it therefore still look 3-D


We then painted the floor black to make sure everything stood out



And finally here is the end product!

All in all it was a long days hard work, but it was good fun and with so many people helping the day went pretty quick!