Last night was closing night for The Shape of Things at Grande Prairie Live Theatre. It is not often that you get an opportunity to body paint the same thing nine plus times over a period of a few weeks! Typically I never practice a design before executing it, so this was a treat to be able to change things up each time, to tweak it and decide what I liked best about it.
Here is a series of shots from each night (except for the seventh… forgot my camera, duh!)
Brendan was great to paint and we did a “shoot” every night before they opened the house. A lot of audience members didn’t realize that he was a real boy! LOL
I was trying to be “arty” and get a mirror shot here, but couldn’t manage it without being in the shot.
Last night we had the entire paint done in less than 40 minutes, which was my goal. If I had some Fardel cream I think we could have had it done in half an hour or less – we spent a LOT of time working the white to get an opaque finish. We, meaning myself and Cazzie who was assisting. We split him in half with me putting the base on top and she was doing the legs (I don’t bend well). Then I would use the grey to add some shadow and depth to the abs and other areas, then I did the darkest marbling and Cazzie would sponge on random light green, then she would add in marbling with light green while I finished up the darker and then one of use would add in white highlighting. The wig would go on before we started the marbling as there were lines to match up with, like on the briefs/grapes.
It was a lot of fun to do.
The next show is Macbeth. Today I am casting the actor’s head to construct the prop for the decapitation scene… I love my job!
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