The Hundred and One Dalmatians

So once again I have been a very naughty blogger and worked on lots of wonderful things without telling you. So I have decided that now is the time to crank the laptop into motion and bring you all up to speed. So here we have a little glimpse into the design process for Baroque Theatre's The Hundred and One Dalmatians, directed by Adam Morley. 

Emergency Cheese!

I recently had the task of making some emergency cheese for Baroque Theatre's production of Kindly Leave the Stage (the real cheese had started to smell). So I hurriedly set forth with some card packing from my ill-fated headboard (more of that in another post), a toilet roll tube and a pile of junk mail to make a paper-mâché edam, brie and a cheddar. Of course, if I'd had more time I would have smoothed them over with some cotton flock, but overall I'm pretty pleased with how they turned out!

Have a look!

I also did an emergency masking cloth for Kindly back in February.

You can still catch Kindly Leave the Stage at the Maddermarket Theatre, Norwich on June 5th, at St George's Theatre, Great Yarmouth on June the 7th and 8th, at the Trinity Theatre, Tunbridge Wells on June the 13th, and at the Hawthorn Theatre, Welwyn Garden City on June the 15th. See here for more details!

More Scenic Painting

Apparently the key to successful blogging is having some sort of routine publishing date every week or whatever. This means that your audience knows when to check your blog for updates, and makes your blog more successful from a marketing point of view and less frustrating for your readers to use...

however...

                 well...

Like many arty people, I’m electronically shambolic.

 Here, therefore, is some scenic work I did in January (oops).

Lizzie and the Pirate/Tarradiddle

Promised Land

Here is my Waterloo:

This is one of my most recently painted backcloths. It is a terrifying (well, for one person with limited time) 4m x 2.5m...

                                 ...and it's photo-realistic.

 An early blocked-in photo

 Look at the individual bricks!! Lucky I came up with a cunning device that made them easier...

 The finished piece in my painting tent

 In the theatre... all the brick houses have individual bricks

... and with some acting stuff going on in front of it!

A piece like this can really suck you in - I could easily have spent another week working into it.

The Taming of the Shrew

Marble effects are wonderful fun... lots of splashing and sloshing

Another one by Anna Michaels, painted with Meg Williams.

Painting in a tent...

I recently returned from working in a tent in Germany...

I spent three months there working as a Scenic Artist for White Horse Theatre, and worked on the backdrops and other set elements for eighteen plays. Please brace yourself for the highlights over the next couple of weeks!

These pictures are from the First Wave (as those of us in the know call it), and are of ‘The Weasel in the Sack’, designed by the lovely Anna Michaels.

We had a recurring joke about this backdrop...

Dragon: “Chicken! What is wit that weave on yo head? We are not going to the clubs like that!”

On a serious note, I would like to point out that the chicken is actually a bird of paradise, and that the dragon’s sexual orientation is unknown.