Management Project

I originally chose to do one of the street houses for my management but after some thought it seemed to daft on a flat which was actually not as complex as i first thought. Therefore I chose to manage the upstage cavecloth as I had to be on it straight from the start and it was a great learning curve. To begin with the cloth had a major problem;it was shorter then 6m which made things very awkward as being the first upstage cloth it was crucial it looked immaculate. To conquer this problem we decided to grid up the cloth as normal and then to attach a 'pocket' to make the cloths length add up to 6m. Painting the cloth went pretty smoothly as we had already painted the other 'cave cloths' using the same repetitive brushstrokes. However, things did become a little bit frustrating as we went a bit too dark so we had to go over with a light wash. The end product of the cloth looked great, and you couldn't tell that cloth was actually too short when we started!

Start of Second Year

It's been a while now, well like the whole summer since I've last blogged and I really need to get back into the swing of it! I guess I should try set a two nights each week to blog and reflect ... okay so now I have that in type, I will make a conscious effort to blog!

Anyhoo, since September I have been helping out with the panto for this year, which is Aladdin. Despite giving up a month of my summer, I found going in to help on the cloths really really useful in my understanding of Scenic Art. Already I feel I know so much more and I feel I have gotten much more confident in my painting. I have spent a lot of time on the cloths, and so far i have learnt:

-How to pin up a cloth on the paint frame
-How to grid and scale up a cloth
-Understanding processes of painting to get the final look of the piece