This morning we came in a little earlier and started to paint instantly. We split the jobs so that a couple of us were attaching the beading while the rest of us started to paint the door. There was a lot of discussion around what colours should and would be used, but it all seemed to go smoothly.
By the end of the day we had managed to paint the door and give it a coat of varnish, but it is still to be put up on campus.
This morning we set up a tent outside (hence the title) and, while Ellie played us some circus tunes, we began covering the sides of the frame with tile adhesive and filling the holes and gaps in the barley twists in order to make sure that the final piece would be as prepared for outside weather as it could be.
We had to set up heaters and heat guns inside the tent (which we had created to keep in the heat) to make sure that everything dried nicely because the weather outside was far too cold. We then mixed the light blue and pink colours and began to add them to the door frame and all of its add-ons in order to begin the painting process.
We had to stop this for a while so that we could have our meeting and discuss how the project had gone, which was good, however we were hoping to have been finished by then, which clearly we were not. I am not sure whether this was due to bad time management or if we had just misjudged how much work we had to do in the time we had been given.
We then began to fit the panels into place as we decided that it made sense to do that first so that Conor could fit the beading in before we started painting it all properly.
Photo Update!
I finished off the effects on my panels this morning as seen above. They are, in my opinion, pretty great, although they look quite different to everyone elses panels, but I guess that is part of the individuality aspect of the project.
I also spent a lot of the day sanding down the rosettes with Meggie so that they could be fitted to the door frame that Conor had built.
I started off by painting both of my panels with the dark layer first making sure to cover it nicely. I then decided to try something different; I started one of them off with the pale pink layer over the dark, and the other with the blue layer over the dark. However, I then followed the rest of my process quite similarly and was very happy with the results.
In the early afternoon (in between my layers of paint) we had a visit from the Bentley Silicone company who spoke to us and demonstrated different kinds of silicone and what they are best used for, as well as bringing along a lot of movie props for us to have a look at.
Porta Di San Ranieri Project 