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!!
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