UW Whitewater Theatre/Dance Department

The final push to complete “Putnam County” before tomorrow’s first tech is on! During the last two days our guest lighting designer, David Gipson, blazed through focus with aid of our student ME Quinn, so this afternoon is all about getting walls up!

Some pictures from yesterday’s shop session:

Here, Stephanie, one half of the props team, fabricated more break away karate boards:

And what those boards look like, painted:

The final large wall, covered and primed:

And then base painted, awaiting spattering. My project this morning will be to line out and glaze the cinderblock.

Here students Mariah and Peyton build the stud walls that will support the risers for the spelling bee participants:

While another Intro to Tech student frames up two more gymnasium doors:

Which will eventually look like this:

Finally, I attacked the banner yesterday. First, laying out the letters and filling them in:

Adding the blue surrounding color:

Then re-establishing letter outlines and adding the smaller text. Here it is, finished except for a final spray of dilute grey to pull down the zippiness a little more.