Something I’ve been working on at my local theatre. The pantomime this year is Jack and the Beanstalk and this is a backcloth for the ‘Giant’s Kitchen’. The cloth was already painted but pretty old and some bits were pretty dark and shadowy; they basically asked me to go over the dull bits and make them look all nice and shiny and new.
Parts I had to go over include the beer barrel, the churn, the oven, the door, the freezer, the ‘spicy mustard’, the pot, and a whole lot of the stone work on either side and at the top. There’s actually a lot detail at the top as there’s a big shield design up there, but unfortunately the working lights I was using to paint by cast a shadow over that section! I’ll try and get a photo of the whole cloth at panto time so you can see what it looks like within the production.
