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Scenic Artist? Scenic Painter? T.D?

(sorry for the worse spelling grammer etc than normal its 3am) So here at Cal arts i am confused student. No doubt about it. I am a Bfa scenic painter,  a course which they don't have. So I study set design. Set design dose not have much production work for a BFA 2, so after a few months i approached the TD department and i have been working non stop ever since. Although helping build a lot of the set i feel i have done a lot of Scenic work also, Work that here is left to the TD department. The Scenic Artist seem more of Scenic Painters for example.. we made these walls

At home i suspect the Scenic artist would apply the Bottles but here it is the T.Ds. The Scenic Painters added a layers a drippy layer white paint to the the bottles. Which will look amazing in the light. I was part of this the paint call.

Once we finished the walls  (over 7000 bottles) .   We made curved benches. This involved using a Jig and a revived maths skills as the benches had to be cut a specific circumferences.

We also made a raised rake circular platform.

Above the platform we made a " technology tree" This was great as we bent pipes on the pipe bender which involved a trip to the SUPER SHOP. Its like the Scene shop but for artists so the tools are amazing. I didn't get to weld however as the class isn't running this year but i am going to learn a little after the production is over!

Then after treating the benches with paper and metal lathe we began to cement them. Now dont get on at me if i'm wrong here but why are the T.Ds adding the texture! This is surely scenic!

We first added a layer to just "bite" with the metal then a second smother layer. Afterwards we covered it in a sprtiz of water and added covered it in painters plastic. Repeat and continue for  oh umm .. 5 days. until all benches and Platform are done. So this week as well as doing . 8 classes i also worked a 44 hour week on a production i'm not even sure I am getting credit on as well you know ... its not scenic and this isnt to far off a normal week. I makes me wonder why one team are working so hard and another .. is only in every so often for a wee paint job. What is a Scenic Artist? What is a scenic painter? and what the hell is a T.D

Anyway off to sleep 9am paint call followed by a 2 day film shoot. Making the most of it i guess.

BAM BAM BAM!

Been far to busy to write but lately. There is a million half written drafts about the last few weeks adventures but nothing worth while so lets hope this turns out better.

So much has happened I think the best way to do this would be a list.

Phaedra’s

The production is a “creative design process” as working on the show for the td and paint team I have learned a lot. It Made me much more aware of the importance of maths, and consistency. The painting is fairly easy with a mostly white water wash with dabs of colour.  Master carpentry work my main job on the show was a big learning curve for me being something I don’t really do much of it was hard to adjust again to the sweep, routers, jigs and pneumatic screw guns but I finally feel like I’m getting it. All good. Helped on a few other shows as well an hour here and there, just marking out and priming boring but necessary.

Chasing Eden

Spent this weekend working on the set for one students film thesis. The films called Chasing Eden and the house we were filming at this weekend if absolutely gorgeous. All tho simple Set design/ dressing it looks really effective and makes you aware of continuity. Its also interesting to watch the filming process. I think my fav  thing so far has been meeting these new people.

Music video,

My friend is spending this weekend shooting a music video and he  required his guitar to be giving a make over in the style of John Pollock. First I took apart and sanded down the guitar masked of the areas  that was needed then applied a  base layer of white spray paint. Once dry I took a waster bottle with a few small holes in it and filled it with paint and a drop of water . Then dribbled the paint over the Guitar. I applied 3 layers in yellow, blue and red. Then a layer of spray varnish was applied.

Disneyland

This weekend myself, roise and Tom went on a trip to Disneyland to see behind the scenes of the costume shop.  Looking at the sketches, designs and fabrication process was astounding. The actually costumes were breathing taking especially the wigs and masks. Paulette the shop manger also took us on a small tour around Disney as well as  letting in to see Aladdin. The production was visually and technically breathe taking. With there being 2 flying carpets ( one a costume  with a amazing acrobat and the other actually flying over your head) a life size elephant costume as well as camels and horse we were nothing but blown away.

Another amazing thing was the floats they were building of course a lot of it was top secret so were unable to take pictures but the ones in development look fantastic and I hope I get a chance to see them before I head home.

Classes

Light lab class is killing me. I love it but most of the girls are not interested at all and it drives me insane to work with them.

Model making is ok, I find with the busy out of class schedule I don’t have time to work  on my models as much as needed but what I do have time to do is good so hopefully soon I will be able to spend more time on them.

3D sculptor

I like this class because the aim is to get us comfortable with a Varity of different mediums, wire, polystyrene, joint compound and lately wire and concrete to crate a sculptor that we can apply mosaic to. Cant wait to see how it turns out!

Scene painting.

Currently working on a translucent painting copying the work of mookia. Currently on the drawing up stages but cant wait  to see how it turns out. Really hoping to add it to my portfolio if it turns out well.

Stage craft.

Currently working on making a carnival game. It gives us the opportunity to make flats, platform, treads and doors so it a great all round basic stagecraft education. Really learning a lot from it and finding this class very valuable.

Friday drawing

Friday is still my drawing day and although not progressing as fast as I was at the start still a lovely way to finish the week.

Although busy with work still been having fun .. Rosie birthday, Vegas, Management office beers, Long beach, Venice beach, Margaritas and days by the pool