set design
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2011Today is the premiere of “The Monster Aunt”, a rock-opera written by the music teacher students at HSH. It´s based on a book by Ingelin Røssland. It´s a anti-happy-ending book. Pretty anti-happy throughout, with a young girl spending the summer at her farmer-aunt, while her parents are on holiday trying to figure out weather they [...]
Fiddler on the Roof
Friday, March 25th, 2011Finally, I am proud to present Fiddler on the Roof! For this production at Stord High School, music department, I was hired in to do all the visuals, including the set-design, the costumes, the props, the poster and designing the make-up. Here is the finished set-design. The backdrop, which I´ve told you about on several [...]
The backdrop is finished!
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011YAY!!! The 70 square meters big backdrop for Fiddler on the roof is finally finished! It´s a big relief, I tell you! And I can´t wait to show you it all in place. Lars in action, painting faces on the cherubs. They look better with eyes, don´t they Ida doing doing her share. And me, [...]
The Fiddler moves in!
Sunday, March 20th, 2011Fiddler on the roof is next on the agenda. With opening night already the coming Thursday, we don´t really have more time than necessary to get everything ready. We´ve moved onto the stage… … and ( the orchestra) into the grave. In a short five hours we managed to screw the big wooden parts of [...]
More Fiddler-set making
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011Another part of the set design for “Fiddler on the roof” is finally in production. First step is to paint the background fabric. Joakim is doing an excellent job here! Sunday I had two of the students help me, last night there were nine of them. Using the stamps I made of hebrew letters. We printed [...]
Backdrop and goody-gift
Thursday, February 10th, 2011It´s been a while since I did an update on the biggest painting in the world, hasn´t it? Well, there´s a perfectly natural explanation… I haven´t done anything with it! (For any new-comers, this is for Fiddler on the Roof) But today, I did make an effort, and concentrated on the rays of glory around [...]
building the land
Thursday, January 27th, 2011Or building the landscape is more correct. One of the coolest things ever is to make a creative plan, and then watch it come to life. Below is part of the set-design for Fiddler on the roof. My little cardboard model. And then the real thing being built! The guys in the front left in [...]
backdrop progress
Tuesday, January 25th, 2011Bits and pieces and baby-steps. As more and more of the background is covered by a backing-color, the progress will only show in smaller parts of the backdrop. I´ve laid gold-leaf on God´s eye. I thought about what I had read, that no one could see God, because the light surrounding him would be so [...]
Angels
Saturday, January 15th, 2011The map and the glory-rays are a bit closer to finish, but instead of finishing them completely, I was tempted beyond my limit to start on one of the angels. I did the halos yesterday, painted first with gold-paint, and then added the gold-leaf (or gold-colored metal-leaf to be precise) Today it was nice and [...]
old yellow map
Monday, January 10th, 2011Part of the background for the big back-drop that I´m painting for “Fiddler on the Roof”, has an old map of Russia. So when I got the big thing unfolded today, I started with making a mixed yellow background around God´s eye. Why a map from Russia? Because that is where “the Fiddler” takes place. [...]
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