As well as Spring Awakening, during the Easter break I was lucky enough to have the chance to go and see the West End performance of ‘Billy Elliot the Musical’ in London’s Victoria Palace Theatre. This has been a show that I have wanted to see since I first watched the film a few years […]
During the Easter break, I went to see a show being performed by the Renegade Theatre Company (who I previously wrote about here). It was a youth production of ‘Spring Awakening’ which is one of my favourite shows about discovery in your teenage years, set in late 1800s it is aimed at an older audience […]
Whilst doing research for artists to include within my report, I found this website that I ended up not using for my research, but I thought would be useful to include within my blog to refer back to later on. The website www.scenicpainters.com offers a wide range of resources for scenic painters, those looking to get […]
During the Easter break, I went to see an exhibition called ‘The Art of the Brick’ by artist Nathan Sawaya, who builds his sculptures and replica art pieces entirely out of LEGO bricks. He discovered the idea of LEGO sculptures when he used them as a creative outlet during his career as a lawyer before […]
Spur Creative Workshop are a professional modelling, prop and scenic painting company for both the entertainment and commercial world. They have completed work for clients in theatre, retail and advertisement creating large scale props, sculpted models and painted backdrops as part of a wide set of skills and techniques they offer. Part of what they […]
‘The Bear and the Hare’ After researching the scenic effect painter Fiona Stewart and finding out she worked on painting the backdrops for the John Lewis 2013 Christmas advert ‘The Bear and the Hare’, I decided to research the making of the advert further as I was surprised to find out that it was made […]