Splinter

26th – 29th January 2026

My 2nd week went so much better, I don’t want to quit I actually really love my job I was just being massively dramatic. I’ve started building a relationship with the scenic painters and there teaching me so much, they have also explained that the painters and the carpenters don’t get on as the carpenters work towards the deadline of getting the set out of the door, always meaning then the painters have to work late nights and weekends to get the set out. Which then made a little more sense to me why they were being rude, but I’ll still be nice to them. This week we were working on the show Road, which is going in the royal exchange. This show was really fun to do as it was 17 telegraph poles we had to rough down to make them look old, it was a really good exercise for me as it was just loads of layers built up to get the finish look, meaning if I made a mistake it wasent to bad as a anouther layer would be getting put over it. I also had a gold leaf sign to do which was really good for me to learn how to do, and it was also nice I was given to do it all, as it was my little project. 

At the end of the week we had the referb of darren brown which was a nice little show to do, it was just making it look new again so lots of painting, filling and spotting. It was also interesting as the floor was needing re painting and originally the company wanted lights in the floor but there budget wasent big enough, so Toni, my boss came up with the idea to paint white lines in a certain way to still

Give the effect of lights, which worked really well. This painting was really satisfying to watch Toni and Maisie do as the lines had to be pin straight at a certain angle to get that effect of light.