Following on from the first two weeks into week three of this project, we have moved onto getting the correct colour shades that we will be using for our set. Although from a student bringing in lots of recycled paint we were able to get hold of a white, yellow, cherry red and black. However due to having nearly all of the paint we needed we were still needing to get hold of a teal and coral colour paint, this is where myself and Chloe. M took to the challenge in making the coral colour first where we gathered some yellow, red and baby pink so we could start mixing to the correct shade needed. Finally after an hour mixing and testing the shade onto paper we had finally found the right shade ready for the set where we were over the moon with. This then led us to try make a teal however, as another group had a royal blue and needed the paint for there own set and there was no other way of mixing paint to get the right shade of teal we decided to all chip in and buy a small pot of teal. Although this defeats the objective of being circular economy there was no other way of getting hold of the paint.
After finally getting hold of all the paint for our colour palette we produced a final swatch of the colours we would use, I decided to take into my own hands and produce a drawing using rough colours to represent the palette to see how it would look as a final outcome with the shapes attached to the white part of the wall too as shown below:
We soon then decided as a group to come in on our self directed days to get the back wall painted and finished so when Thursday came we could start thinking about the props. We started this off, by as group we laid down the boards flat on the floor where we then began to mark out in pencil to scale the size of the shapes we have used. Once this was complete we then started to masking tape the small shapes such as the yellow, coral and red to give them three coats of paint so that they were very vibrant and bold for the theme. Once these had dryed we then moved on to getting two coats of the mains colours which were the teal and white, however this was done where we masking taped the small shapes where we were then able to paint the teal and white on the set allowing us to have the back wall nearly finished.
Once the back wall was painted and the masking tape was taken off we then moved onto doing touch ups making the shapes look as sharp and clean as possible. Once all the paint had dried from all the touch ups myself, Grace and Chloe. M moved onto marking the correct distance for the desk supports so that they could then be drilled onto the wall making sure that they were level and stable allowing the desk to evenly rest on top. Whilst also using double sided sticky tape to attach the shapes onto the white section of the set.
Rebecca Chick 