May. 18th, 2022 at 7:07 PM
Painting Arthurian film shields
As a little sideline right now, I'm painting prop shields that (hopefully) will appear in the background of a small Arthurian film that Philip and Sarah Reeve are making. Stuart and I are still living with them while we get ready to move to a house nearby, and it makes sense to do our bit! (To be honest, it doesn't take any coaxing to get me to paint animals on wood.) Here's one shield:
And here's how it'll appear in the film, hanging from a tree of shields (drawing by Philip):
Here's the process, painting on particle board with house paints. You can see the mer-rabbit before I roughed it up to look like it had been hanging from a tree for awhile.
There are a surprisingly large number of snails in medieval manuscripts, so this was a no-brainer:
I hope I'll get a chance to make lots more!
Philip and Sarah have been busy, too. Here are some helmets that Philip has been rusting up: the one on the left came all shiny silver from a costume company, and I found the one on the right in Deptford Market, fibreglass and painted black (probably an old prop from the Albany Theatre). Philip used coffee, cinnamon and tissue paper to get the texture before painting the to look like rust, and the studio now smells like a yummy Swedish bakery.
And here's how it'll appear in the film, hanging from a tree of shields (drawing by Philip):
Here's the process, painting on particle board with house paints. You can see the mer-rabbit before I roughed it up to look like it had been hanging from a tree for awhile.
There are a surprisingly large number of snails in medieval manuscripts, so this was a no-brainer:
I hope I'll get a chance to make lots more!
Philip and Sarah have been busy, too. Here are some helmets that Philip has been rusting up: the one on the left came all shiny silver from a costume company, and I found the one on the right in Deptford Market, fibreglass and painted black (probably an old prop from the Albany Theatre). Philip used coffee, cinnamon and tissue paper to get the texture before painting the to look like rust, and the studio now smells like a yummy Swedish bakery.