Spiderman, for my oldest son's 4th birthday:
Train, for my oldest's 3rd birthday:
Just for fun, and to use up some leftover frosting:
Dinosaur, for my 2nd son's 2nd birthday:
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Cakes
I like to make cake. Ok, I like to EAT cake, but decorating them is fun too. These are some of the ones I've made in recent years that I'm particularly proud of.
Spiderman, for my oldest son's 4th birthday:
Train, for my oldest's 3rd birthday:
Just for fun, and to use up some leftover frosting:
Dinosaur, for my 2nd son's 2nd birthday:
Spiderman, for my oldest son's 4th birthday:
Train, for my oldest's 3rd birthday:
Just for fun, and to use up some leftover frosting:
Dinosaur, for my 2nd son's 2nd birthday:
Monday, February 9, 2009
More Models
More examples of models built for various classes.
This castle was built for my model building class. We were learning how to use Photoshop to help us in model making. It's based on a sketch I had used the semester earlier when taking Photoshop.
Private Lives
by Noël Coward.
Act II. I do not have a model of Act I, as we only had to build a model for one of the acts and I wanted to try and build a stained glass window. We were assigned no specific theatre space.
Full set
Detail of window and stage left.
Closeup stage right.
Buried Child
Stage right
Scissor Sisters Concert
This is a design for a concert tour for the group Scissor Sisters. For Collaborative Studies class, our group consisted of one scenic designer, one lighting designer, one costume designer and one technical director. It was an interesting process, especially as at this point I had never before been to a rock concert in my life. So, unlike my classmates, I had no idea what I was doing! Unfortunately, my technical director couldn't offer any advice as he'd never been to a rock concert either. Our group decided to go in the direction of an old, dilapidated theatre, with a Moulin Rouge type feel. It is a traveling show, it was the technical directors job to make sure the set and lighting could all be broken down to fit into the trucks for transport.
The 3 platforms in the back (with the lavender curtains beneath them) were audience seating areas--for very high priced tickets! These were to make up for some of the audience space being taken away by our stage jutting out into the audience as it does. The 2 screens on either side are for projections of close ups of the band members.
Floor detail
The platforms which form part of the scissors are for the band. There are footlights along the edge of the stage, as well as rope lighting in the floor which frame out the scissor shape.
The windmill
The windmill does actually spin throughout the concert, there are lights along each of the blades. The colored "shapes" on the proscenium are all painted in glow-in-the-dark paints.
This castle was built for my model building class. We were learning how to use Photoshop to help us in model making. It's based on a sketch I had used the semester earlier when taking Photoshop.
Private Lives
by Noël Coward.
Act II. I do not have a model of Act I, as we only had to build a model for one of the acts and I wanted to try and build a stained glass window. We were assigned no specific theatre space.
Full set
Detail of window and stage left.
Closeup stage right.
Buried Child
by Sam Shepherd
As difficult as I discovered making a model look old and run down is, I really enjoyed it. One of the earlier models built for Scene Design II at SDSU. We were again assigned no specific theatre, just the generic one for our class.
As difficult as I discovered making a model look old and run down is, I really enjoyed it. One of the earlier models built for Scene Design II at SDSU. We were again assigned no specific theatre, just the generic one for our class.
Full set
Stage left
Stage right
Scissor Sisters Concert
This is a design for a concert tour for the group Scissor Sisters. For Collaborative Studies class, our group consisted of one scenic designer, one lighting designer, one costume designer and one technical director. It was an interesting process, especially as at this point I had never before been to a rock concert in my life. So, unlike my classmates, I had no idea what I was doing! Unfortunately, my technical director couldn't offer any advice as he'd never been to a rock concert either. Our group decided to go in the direction of an old, dilapidated theatre, with a Moulin Rouge type feel. It is a traveling show, it was the technical directors job to make sure the set and lighting could all be broken down to fit into the trucks for transport.
Full set
The 3 platforms in the back (with the lavender curtains beneath them) were audience seating areas--for very high priced tickets! These were to make up for some of the audience space being taken away by our stage jutting out into the audience as it does. The 2 screens on either side are for projections of close ups of the band members.
Floor detail
The platforms which form part of the scissors are for the band. There are footlights along the edge of the stage, as well as rope lighting in the floor which frame out the scissor shape.
The windmill
The windmill does actually spin throughout the concert, there are lights along each of the blades. The colored "shapes" on the proscenium are all painted in glow-in-the-dark paints.
Friday, February 6, 2009
Class Projects
The following are models that I built as class projects. Somewhere I have pictures of older models, eventually I'll get around to putting them up as well. There are several of them, so it'll take a few posts to put them all up.
Unfortunately, I did not take these pictures at the time of building the models, rather I took them much later. Depending on the model it was up to 5 years later. As a result, you can see that the models are looking rather worn from being in storage. In future I will know better and always take pictures upon immediate completion of building anything. They always look the way they are intended to then.
Art by Yasmina Reza
Created for my model building class, I have 3 models of this, as that was the assignment. It had to be all in white, just using different textures. We were not assigned a theatre space.
Art #1
Art #2
Art #3
Floor detail:
Unfortunately, I did not take these pictures at the time of building the models, rather I took them much later. Depending on the model it was up to 5 years later. As a result, you can see that the models are looking rather worn from being in storage. In future I will know better and always take pictures upon immediate completion of building anything. They always look the way they are intended to then.
Art by Yasmina Reza
Created for my model building class, I have 3 models of this, as that was the assignment. It had to be all in white, just using different textures. We were not assigned a theatre space.
Art #1
Art #2
Art #3
Othello by William Shakespeare
We were assigned to design for the Globe Theatre in San Diego.
Front view:
Floor detail:
Arch & Rose windows detail:
A scene change:
Detail of gate:
Finding the Sun by Edward Albee
This was for juries at SDSU. I was in one of 3 groups to present for juries that year. I was the only one to keep the show set on a New England beach rather than change it to a West Coast one.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
The Boy Who Fell into a Book
By Alan Auckbourn for Lamb's Players, The Playhouse on Plaza, National City (San Diego), CA. Designed Fall 2003.
Unfortunately, due to camera malfunctions, I have only the one picture from this show and it doesn't really show the set well. However, it was a fun show to design as it's the only one I've done that was geared for children. It was also very challenging as it was very fast paced and required us to go "through" many different books and their settings.
Unfortunately, due to camera malfunctions, I have only the one picture from this show and it doesn't really show the set well. However, it was a fun show to design as it's the only one I've done that was geared for children. It was also very challenging as it was very fast paced and required us to go "through" many different books and their settings.
Twilight of the Golds
By Jonathan Tolin, for Idaho State University's Powell Little Theatre. Designed Fall 2002. This was my first ever realized set design.
Through design meeting discussions the director and I determined that we would like to have this NYC apartment reflect both the feeling of the play and of the 2 characters that live here, hence the grey set with cold, hard surfaces. It also made it be able to reflect the operatic lighting the script calls for.
Through design meeting discussions the director and I determined that we would like to have this NYC apartment reflect both the feeling of the play and of the 2 characters that live here, hence the grey set with cold, hard surfaces. It also made it be able to reflect the operatic lighting the script calls for.
As a side note, I also did the majority of the painting on this set, the marbling being a process I developed on my own, based on two other marbling techniques.
Brownstone
Written by Peter Larson and Josh Rubins, designed for San Diego State University's Experimental Theatre. Designed Fall 2004.
This was my first design for SDSU as a grad student, my first ever realized design of a musical. The script called for 4 apartments in a brownstone building in New York City, the mail box area, the hallway, the front stoop, the sidewalk in front of the building and the garbage well area. Added to this we needed a space for the small orchestra and a place for our 3 person chorus to retire while remaining on stage. The theatre space is flexible, I opted for a 3/4 thrust, my only requirements being the minumum number of seats I had to fit into the audience.
The full set
The front stoop and garbage well
Upstairs Apartments
Downstairs Apartments
Halloween
I am not a costume designer, but I do enjoy making costumes for my family for Halloween. Being as I've been involved in theatre in some capacity or another my entire life, when it comes to making costumes, I don't know know how to go by half measures. This year my husband and 2 little boys (aged 1 and 3) were the Three Musketeers. 
Except for the size (obviously) all of the costumes are identical.
A close up of the painted detail.
I made this hat, luckily my husband already owned a cavalier hat so I didn't have to make one for him.
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