The ghost of wallpaper. Painting over walls I just wallpapered last week just seems a bit weird but it did leave an interesting faint impression of the formerly hung vintage embossed paper on the wall. More adventures in film stuff.

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April 29, 2022 at 07:46PM
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It’s the latest fashion and my latest make. Lots of fun making these “rock” shoes for performance costume, commissioned by @zephyrliddell to go with the crazy gorse eyeballs. Zephyr’s costume is going to look amazing once it’s all put together. Can’t wait to see it all. Latex coated foam shaped around some deck shoes. Trimmed and cut to look like they’ve been chiselled. Particularly pleased with the odd pinking shears cut marks that look like wavy chisel marks. Thoroughly enjoyed this one.

​#propmaking #props #performance #costume #costumemaking #fakerock #rock #chisel #latex #foam #foamsmithing #rockshoes
April 27, 2022 at 12:33PM
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Busy week this week with fun projects. Accoutrements for a costume designed by the ever fabulous @zephyrliddell. One of them was embedded flower resin casts. They worked out satisfactorily. Will be interesting to see how they will look in a week. Always learning new things and will aim to try it out again when I have more time (theoretically). Got some new ideas and materials to work with so that’s always a success in my book. More foam rocks to show you too but not going to spoil you too much all at once.

#costume #making #props #propmaking #eyes #resincast #clearresincast #casting #gorseflowers #castingresinflowers
April 22, 2022 at 04:50PM
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Now what’s going on here?…Oh, just a little experiment. It’s for a thing. Will it work? Mibbees aye, mibbees no. Certainly hope so! Fresh flowers in resin will most likely rot but when time is not on your side, you have to go with with whatcha got and cross all fingers.😵‍💫🌹

#props #propmaking #resincasting #waterclearresin #eyeballs #polyesterresinreallystinks #stinky #alwaysweararespirator #flowersinresin
April 19, 2022 at 04:19PM
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This week I’ve been mostly figuring out how to wallpaper. Once again, thank gawd for YouTubers! Turns out it’s quite fun…once I got the hang of it #punintended Though only having 3 days to do 2 rooms when one has never wallpapered before, other than helping my dad out about 30 years ago, was an interesting challenge. Baptism of fire…or perhaps Baptism of paste more like.
​Everyone seemed very happy and a new tool in the belt for sure but now a quite weekend for me! Thanks to Andy and to Kay and Teenie for their cups of tea, banter and patience.

#wallpaper #wallpapering #60s #original60swallpaper #Ashleywallpaper #vintage60s #featurefilm #film #newskills #scenicart #scenic
March 19, 2022 at 11:11AM
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Finally pics of more projects from last autumn! This was a fun one. “Urlar”. Working with fabulous costume designer, Zephyr Liddell, I did a bit of foamsmithery with shiny, shiny fabric. Photos reposted from Zeph’s Insta, I made the blue Damselfly’s head, shoulders and hip piece. Experimental performance from Guy Veale @logtoad and National Trust for Scotland.

Posted @withregram • @zephyrliddell "Gilmouring on the mountainside. More pics from Urlar for National Trust Scotland Urlar National Trust Scotland @nationaltrustforscotland Full credit list on the last slide. Shout out to Producer/Director Guy Veale and my brilliant costume team: @poppycamdenstudio @woolgathering.uk @pigsticksprops
​Images by @matthewarthurwilliams"

February 26, 2022 at 10:29PM
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From foam to wood…and a bit more foam…

Right back at it after New Year with a bit of fun puppet wrangling in between…and now a tree…
Yes, this is a tree. A collaboration in the making and not quite fully formed yet. Been an interesting problem solving challenge to use only materials we have lying about. And we do have a lot of bits of wood…
Apart from some new screws and bolts and a bit of fire retardant spray, managing to use up some materials which is excellent as space here is a premium! I’m just making the frame, upon which there will be a beautiful fabric covering. Will post up the finished article when it’s done.

​#making #propmaking #installation #artmaking #tree #reuse #recycle #remake #wood #woodenproject #challenge
February 09, 2022 at 02:31PM
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