Arrabbiata On Stage part 3

For the third consecutive day I drove down to Manasquan to lend my mural talents to a stage production.  When we get rolling we get all the paint cans out.  Had a lot of different things to work on today, which meant mixing a lot of custom colors.  Today was going to be a short day, only 4 hours including clean up time, but we got done what we planned to do.

We had made good progress in the first two days on this piece of the forest, and today's goal was to get a layer of paint on every square inch of burlap.  My task list included filling in a background dark color (a mix of brown and black) on all the vines, then dotting them with warm green mix to match the way vines had been painted on the other half.  After that I spent a bit of time adding some texture to some previously painted leaves (the bright green area above)  and filling in a medium blue into some of the remaining negative spaces above and below.  Pat also did blue and texture on this piece of the forest, while Ralph did some similar things on the other half, and made a color change to the big brown tree on this half.

My last remaining minutes were spent adding more blues and purple in the negative spaces, letting them  intermingle to create a gradually mixing pointillist effect, or at least we hope it will look that way from the seats.  The photo below shows where we ended the day.

We're all taking off for the next several days for the holiday weekend.  Our guess is that we can finish what remains in one more day's work, just layering more paint on what we have, which goes much faster than painting raw burlap.