Creative Chaos

So this week, we had a set change like we usually do when we start a new series. Our new series is called Faces, and the main idea of the graphic is a face profile in black, with a light background.

So, the set change. We had a local cardboard company donate several cuts of cardboard (4 27″ squares, 12 15″ squares, 10 10″ squares, and 10 7″ squares). I bought some regular spray paint (the H2O kind would soak the cardboard I think) in black, and spray painted all of the squares.

Next, I bought some tissue paper and cut it into squares smaller than the cardboard (like, for the 27″ cardboard square, the tissue paper might be 24″, etc.). I balled up the tissue paper to give it some texture, them smoothed it back out and glued it to the cardboard.

Next, we mounted the squares all over the back wall, symmetrically but still kind of random. Keep in mind that so far we’ve only paid for 3 packages of tissue paper and 4 bottles of black spray paint.

Here it is w/ no lighting:

Next, we cut profiles out of black construction paper and glued them to the biggest squares. You can barely tell they’re there in the pics, but they are and they show up in the room pretty well.

Next we added some lighting.

What we haven’t added yet (that is obviously not in the picture above, but it will be there by Sunday) are some shop lights on each side w/ black lights in them. The white tissue paper picks it up really well and it makes for a cool effect when we turn the other lights off. The 4′ black lights are 12 bucks each, but i have a gift card, and I borrowed one shop light and we already had one.

So there you go. Cheap, easy, and it’s just something fresh for the eyes.

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