Wild Party!

The Footlight Club's rendition of Andrew Lippa's Wild Party opens tonight in Jamaica Plain! I helped with some of the artistic elements of the set designed by artist Brian Crete, including the meticulous striping of Queenie and Burr's apartment walls and a portrait of the two of them to hang on the walls. You can see a gallery of the work I did for the show here complete with progress pictures.

The Wild Party will be running over the next three weekends! Come check out this seedy musical full of roaring 20's debauchery!

Q&B

Photo by Brian Crete
Here is my painting of Queenie and Burrs for the Footlight Club's Wild Party. It was done with watered down acrylic on canvas, materials I have not used in a while. It was a nice revisit and a pleasant study in clowns. I absolutely hate clowns, but I took this as a challenge to create the most repellent clown I could that still fit with the play. I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out.

Stripes!

More stripe pictures for Footlight Club's Wild Party...

Next I'm making a painting for the walls of Queenie and Burrs.

STRIPES!

I'm helping with some set painting and illustration for the Footlight Club's production of Andrew Lippa's Wild Party musical. It's been ages since I've worked on a set so I was delighted when asked by Brian Crete, the set designer (and awesome co-owner of my favorite local gallery the Uforge) to help out with the creation of artwork to hang inside of characters Queenie and Burr's seedy apartment set as well as help paint the apartment itself.

This weekend we helped paint the walls of the set to look like striped Art Deco style wallpaper. It took four artists (Blake, new art friends Bonnie and Gail, and myself), 7.5 hours, 2 buckets of paint and 9.5 rolls of various sized masking tapes to accomplish this print on 5 wall panels and it came out incredible! Next up is designing art for the walls! Stay tuned!

(Photo by Brian Crete)