DAY THREE:
Today I began my painting of Stubbs Whistlejacket. The canvas is approximatly 3 meters by 2.5 meters, which was streched over one of the paint frames, held in place with staples. I then primed the canvas with a coloured water based paint in a beige that matched that of the painting. I then gridded up the drawing and then transposed these onto the canvas using cotton and nails to make the grid, rather than drawing them on. This could then be used to accuratly draw up the image.
The National Theatre is currently trying to raise money to fund an extension of the building, as part of this endeavour they are outting on a special performance for certain weathly members of the community in hopes that they will sponser their project. The performance is taking place in the Olivier Theatre; which means that Frankinstien is taking a break, where they have put a stage up over where the stalls are and have transformed the real stage into a seating area with round tables and chairs. I was able to go up for a while and watch some of the choir rehersals.
In the Paint Frame it has been very busy as the flats for "Rocket to the Moon" have been being removed and taken to the Littleton Theatre to be fitted. The turn around for the National is so quick and constant that as soon as the finished flats had been removed the next productions were being in moved in from the construction workshop, ready to be textured and painted.
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