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Date Posted: 07:41:27 12/11/10 Sat
Author: Bill
Author Host/IP: 71.250.59.198
Subject: Re: sponge painting
In reply to: Kelsey 's message, "Re: sponge painting" on 05:32:53 12/11/10 Sat

Sponge painting is a useful tool for creating the impression of texture. Some modern techniques might be faster but might not create what you want as well.

As for roles " they also serve who only stand and wait " .
while at the shakespere festival I gained a new insight into the supporting roles without which a production cannot be as impressive as it might be. When the students who had little experience carried off those roles well things were much better than when they could not. also of course many of them filled the understudy roles and gained by the experience while knowing that in dire circumstance they would need to step up and carry off the more important roles they were practicing to fill if the featured players were unable to do that for whatever reason.

My only real experience as a performer was back in high school when I had gotten a role as a backup gutiarist for Bye Bye Birdie and a few eeks into the rehersals the fellow who was supposed to play Albert Peterson was nable to project his voice and they tapped me to replace him as the only non role assigned person who was available. I had to memorize the lines and ves for the largest part in the play starting from scratch but a week or more behind everyone else. That taught me the need for both perseverance and what it meant to have people depending on you to step up and succeed. The gal who was playing Rosie got a case of larengitis with a short time left before opening night and the girl who was her understudy stepped up and was quite good while Phyllis recovered.
We did well and I pulled off my part and the understudy was not necessary for Rosie.
I did not pursue tehatre of course but went in another direction until I fell into the shakespere gig.

We did a lot of texture with spatter techniques as well as simulated wood grain for other productions. It is not as easy as you would think to make canvass and fiberboard look like what it is not but with the right lighting techniques it can be a magical transformation.

I suppose that one of the most important things I learned at FC was that there was validity to others points of view and abillities and that people don't all fit easilly into separate categories or do things all the same way.
Also people skills were a big part of the FC experience whether you excercised them for communication or were one of the people who did so to manipulate the situation for some advantage or agenda.
FC also taught people that they could succeed if they put in the effort needed to do so . The upper divvision was a good format for that.

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