Nearing the end of my time in scenic..

So I haven't blogged very much in the last month but im not going to lie, we've been working on 19 black brick walls, there's not really too much I can say when were doing the same thing week in, week out. But now, finally, we have managed to conquer the bricks and actually finished them all early and we only had to do one lat night, and it wasn't even that late!! It's been challenging as it has been pretty monotonous and repetitive so we've been having to keep our focus and not slack or give it less effort.

Sarah, Rosé and I worked on wallpapering one of the house flats which was pretty tricky as none of us had ever wallpapered before and we were trying to do it with PVA which gave us no give or movement once it touched the wood, which obviously didnt help as it was a patterned design which needed to match up. We eventually persuaded Gary to let us buy some wallpaper paste which made it a lot easier.

I requested to stay in Scenic for an extra week so im now back working on the Tron show and painting the bridge which is pretty interesting and very messy.

Then it's back to costume for 3 weeks which im kind of looking forward to, i'll love it when im back in it but i'd quite like to stay in scenic for a little longer. Only a few more weeks of term left though.

I managed to get myself a work placement at Scottish opera in summer for 2 weeks which will hopefully be a very beneficial thing for me to have. Im really looking forward to it.

Magic Flute: Part II

So the gold bricks are finished and now its time for the 19 flats of black bricks. Not quite as large as the gold walls but a lot more of them to do. We started off painting the flats with a mix of greys, warm browns and greens so that when we removed the tape the grout would be interesting and varied in places. Next, as before, we masked out the bricks, we managed to persuade Cordelia to let us make them a little bigger so it didnt take as long. Then we had to idendine them then peel off the tape. We had a few little bits of bother with the masking tape not coming off well and we spent a lot of time picking at it and fixing the grout in places. Then we dry brushed them green and grey to make them look old and worn. They looked great, they took time but we all got used to it pretty quickly.

After a couple of weeks of this we got in some new first years so the techniques changed and there were a few mistakes and Sarah, Rose and I were on fixing up detail duty. After a few days with some guidance we managed to steer them in the right track and a few less mistakes were made.

We realised about halfway through that the brick walls would have to match up and that we would have to add some time into our schedule to lie them together so that we could fix the joins and make sure that they matched up colourwise and the brick layout matched up. We had a few little problems with this, one of which meant that i had to crawl down the middle of two and scrape off with a scalpol some of the hard idendine and re-tape it so that the lines matched up. This was a little frustrating but would have looked stupid and obvious if it hadnt been fixed!

I cant wait until its all finished and up on stage, it will look amazing and all our hard work will definately have paid off!!