Arrabbiata On Stage part 2

I was back at the Algonquin today to continue work on the Spamalot set.  This time both halves of the scary forest were laid out in their relative positions.  The large L shaped burlap pieces had been trimmed closer to the edges of the drawn elements on each half and hemmed so they won't unravel.

Just two of us on stage today.  Pat worked mostly on the right side piece (above, started the day before yesterday), filling in blues and violets in all the negative space around the tree parts.  As with the trunks,  leaves, and moss areas, this was just a first layer that will be overlaid with additional colors.

Meanwhile, I was working on the left side piece, the one we had started on yesterday.  With both pieces out together we could see differences between the two drawings, which were supposed to be more or less symmetrical.  So my first job was to make adjustments to the tree trunks I had drawn yesterday.  Since this is all just underpainting, the colors didn't have to match perfectly- it was just to make the figure-like structures more robust.  Then I got some black paint and the smallest brush we had and added contour lines to all the trunks and limbs, to make the relative positions and major movements a little clearer.  After my pizza break, I opened up a new can of green (kind of a cadmium green, the intense yellow-green seen above) and filled in the last two sections of greenery in the trees, while Pat added in more blue and purple sections.

Once again we shut down our efforts by 4 pm, but we'll be back there tomorrow to continue the process.