Week 9

Oh deary me! On Tuesday we all met down at Renfrew Street (that is where the main campus of the Conservatoire is and where the production will be held on the New Atheneum Stage) and the first thing I notice when I dropped off my bag in the auditorium ... the Stage Right flown flat didn't match up with the front wall. Urgh, this was annoying as we had used the spray gun to achieve the look of the front wall and there was no way of using this on the stage as the paint would go everywhere!

Look closely in the centre of the 2 joining sides, you'll see that they don't match up!

Anyways this week there has been a lot of sitting around as it was tech rehearsals so the scenic team aren't actually scheduled to be on stage, and therefore there was manic painting at tea breaks and lunch, or any time we could sneak on stage! This week we didn't have Jude on the team :( as she was off painting another panto (which looks amazing btw!) however we still managed to get a lot done without her. We had a paint call on the 27th where we finished painting the main house, started the touch ups inside of the opening tower and doing a lot trompe l'oeil (fake shadows to make 2-D things look 3-D). Annoyingly though - this was mainly my fault as I painted the towers - the towers didn't match the style of the mini turrets, so Rosé and I did the scary job of touching them. Touching up the towers was scary to begin with as the original technique was a wet blend, however and thankfully what ever we did managed to be a hit and the towers looked 100x better!

Throughout the week we got a lot of extra notes everyday, the designer (Robin Peoples) came in on Wednesday and he seemed pretty happy with everything except he wanted more of a shadow on the Centre Stage Village flats which is a pretty big job so we will have to do that at our paint call next week!

The houses sort of look like the are floating ... eep!