Cassandra Phillips: Scenic Artist
 
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For our show  "The Very Merry Wives of Windsor, Iowa" we needed over 200 stalks of corn.  

One of our master carpenters, Tasia came up with the great idea of using bubble wrap for the corn itself.  Masking tape over wire made the leaves, PVC the stalk itself, and nylon thread served as the "hair."
Roxanne shows just how realistic our fake corn is. 

  Each ear was hand glued and painted.  Each Leaf was taped and cut individually.  We never could have made all the corn without the awesome help of our loyal volunteers.  Next, each leaf had to be painted individually. 
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And here we have the finished product.  A whole field of corn right in our paint shop.  

Can you find the Geno in this picture?

 
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Time for the 2012 scene shop party!  This year's theme was a play on MMC.  We are having 3 parties at the same time in the same place.  A rave, a kegger and a cocktail party.   

Every party needs decorations, so the paint shop decided to deliver a little mural action.  

I headed up this starburst mural on the paint shop door.  

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Here Gabriel and I put some humorous  finishing touches on the people.  

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Here's the finished RKC mural.  We painted the people to be attendees of each party.  

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Gabriel is super awesome with an airbrush, so he whipped up this fantastic floor mural for the dance floor (the paint shop rave).

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Natalie Scott, a former paint intern and current props intern, helped with all that space-y awesomeness, and Thayne added that great William Shakespeare skeleton angel.  

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And a good time was had by all!

 
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This week we got to work on a phenomenal gold leafing project.    Props put together this fantastic working pumpkin carriage out of foam and various other things.  After much coating and sanding, it was time to leaf.   The set this beautiful piece will be appearing on is all gloss black.  This little guy was going to be a bright  light on stage, and it needed to be flawless.  

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Above, Gino and I begin carefully leafing.  To the right, I continue to burnish.

Below, is the finished product.  We added gloss white and an airbrushed shadow.  

 
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One of the projects Thayne and I have been working on this week are three cloud drops that hang behind windows for "The Very Merry Wives of Windsor, Iowa." 

Here we are using the HVLPs to get a nice soft cloud texture. 

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We primarily used the HVLPs to paint these little drops.  


Here Thayne puts some soft, purple shadows in the clouds as the fan puffs up the drop.  

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Here are the finished drops.  
We think they came out rather well! 


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Cassandra Phillips: Scenic Artist