'Avenue Q', Old Joint Stock Theatre, Birmingham

Avenue Q ran from the 12th June - 22nd June

The Empire State Building

Acrylic on MDF - height: 6" 

The board was mounted up onto a platform at the side of the stage.

The idea was to make it look as though it was in the distance of the street, Avenue Q. 

Below image was taken with no spotlight above it. 

Below image was taken whilst the spotlight was on

'Crazy For You' - In the making at the Crescent Theatre, Birmingham

Currently waiting for photographs of the completed set on stage. 

So for now, here are some pictures of the bits that i did along the way....

Red wallpaper stencils for the Inside of the Gaiety Theatre 

'Crazy For You' - Bobby's Broadway Dream Scene

'Crazy For You' Crescent Theatre, Birmingham 2014

There were 8 sets which included:

WINGS & STAGE OF ZANGLER'S BROADWAY THEATER

STREET IN FRONT OF THE ZANGLER THEATER, N.Y.

BOBBY'S 'BROADWAY' DREAM SCENE  

MAIN STREET, DEADROCK, NEVADA.

INSIDE LANK'S SALOON. DEADROCK, NEVADA.

 STAGE OF THE GAIETY THEATER. DEADROCK, NEVADA.

    LOBBY OF THE GAIETY THEATER. 

 BACKSTAGE OF THE GAIETY THEATER.

and 16 set changes

Stenciled Wallpaper close up

Front of Lank's Saloon

Inside Lank's Saloon - Before Wallpaper was added

'Crazy For You', Crescent Theatre, Birmingham 2014

The show ran from 31st May 2014 - 7th June 2014

Production for the set started in Jan / Feb 2014 

'Crazy For You' Set Model - By Set Designer Colin Judges

( I will only post pictures of the parts i helped work on)

 Working on the outside of the 'Gaiety Theatre'

Getting the 'Gaiety Theatre' on stage 

Set get in

More to come.....

Personal Painting Projects

Canvas boards with Acrylic

Coming Soon....

Images from the "Crazy For You" A Gershwin Musical, set 

The Crescent Theatre

31st May - 7th June

Images for the "Avenue Q" set

The Old Joint Stock Theatre 

12th June - 22nd June (SOLD OUT)

'The Last Five Years' - Old Joint Stock Pub and Theatre, Birmingham

This was the biggest thing I'd ever done on my own before and I was really excited by the challenge! Due to limited timing, I painted in the dark for a lot of it, whilst the lighting and tech rehearsals were going on around me.

Grand piano placed in the centre

 

 

Jamie's bedroom

Cathy's bedroom

The Clock

There were no hands on the clock as the director didn't want it to be a specific moment in time.

The centre of the clock being painted by me during a lighting rehearsal.

Roman numerals being painted

The two photos below show the completed circle for the clock

Traverse Staging

'Rent' at the Crescent Theatre, Birmingham

May 2014

After designing and painting for the show 'Rent' at the Old Joint Stock Theatre, i was asked to spray paint graffiti for another production of 'Rent' in May 2014 at the Crescent Theatre. This show was performed by the Arcadians on the main stage.

Below are the final images which were spray painted onto grey boards, provided by the company. 

In total it took 2 full days to complete the 3 spray painted boards and one evening to draw and paint the acrylic board 'NYC' and 'Angel'. 

(Unfortunately i do not have any pictures of the completed set due to timing implications.) 

AZT Final

Spray Paint

Fight Aids Final 

Spray paint

The Life Cafe Final

 The Life Cafe - Almost finished

Final board

NYC and Angel painted with Acrylics as another style idea.  

The final ideas were sketched out onto grey boards, which were provided by the theatre company.

The Life Cafe 

Initial Spray Paint

AZT

White primer

 Fight Aids

The Life Cafe

No Day But Today

Initial graffiti / style ideas for 'Rent' at the Crescent Theatre, performed by the theatre company, The Arcadians. 

Rey, New York

 Fight Aids

 L.E Side, Angel, Life Cafe

'Rent' at the Old Joint Stock Pub and Theatre, Birmingham.

In December 2013 I was asked to produce a few graffiti tags for a production of 'RENT' at the Old Joint Stock Theatre in Birmingham.

Below are the final images, painted on brick style wallpaper with acrylic. 

No Day But Today

Viva La Vie Boheme painted with Acrylic straight onto the wall. 

(Unfortunately due to the lighting, most of the top was in the shadows)

And here are the initial graffiti ideas which were firstly sketched out and painted with watercolours. 

Viva La Vie Boheme

Angel

Angel

RENT

 No Day But Today

No Day But Today

Altogether it took about three full days to complete the two tags and after all the hard work, I got to see the show on the opening night! It was an absolutely fantastic performance and made me cry!

After the run was over, I was asked by another Theatre company, The Arcadians, to do some more graffiti for their production of RENT at the Crescent Theatre in Brindley Place, Birmingham, which showed in May 2014.