Two Gents Part Two: Verona's Ruins

My team was getting a bit restless as we were waiting for things to do once James had left. We noticed the smaller ramp had been completed. We decided to just go ahead and start texturing it as we knew we had a lot to do, might as well get it out of the way!

Plaster that Ramp!

How is she doe?

She done

Unfortunately, after our meeting with James, I had fallen ill. I had been sent home from the direction of Roz and missed the following day, but not before finishing the ramp. I came back to 1/4 of the stage floor being textured. It made me a bit nervous as I looked at is as most of it did not look like the samples we had agreed up with James. I wasn't there so I don't really know what happened, but we had no time or enough materials to go over it again, so we started with the steel deck floor.  Because Carolyn, the Director, wanted the columns to move in and out of the stage, masking had to be added so the steel deck floor had to be shortened. This was good news for us as it meant less floor to texture! So we went on ahead laying the steel deck floor with the little room we had! PVAed those babies and slapped on the plaster! While that was drying, me and Flo went ahead and started painting the main floor as it was dry enough to paint... or so we thought....

We aint got the time, just Splash it!

is she good doe?

She's good doe. We made sure!

While getting the basecoat one, Flo and I noticed something.......... The floor was chipping! and not just little pieces but big chucks of the floor were coming off with ease!

What? She's not alright!

Solution(?): Laura told us to let it dry a bit more, then go over the whole floor with a thick layer of PVA. After this we'll see what's stayed and hasn't! What ever happens, we were gonna have replaster bit of the floor anyways. While my team was off doing that, I focused on the steel deck floor as that was definitely dry enough to paint.

We were not too Happy...

She's looking good!

After I did the initial paint job, Charlie did the inking, I trusted her with this as it was the sample James liked the best. During this time though, Charlie started missing some days. The days Charlie would come in, she tried to do her best, but you could tell her heart wasn't in it. This floor was an example of that. The inking she did, was quite sloppy and she left splash marks of black and blue all over the floor where it wasn't supposed to be. She also added yellow into the blending which made the colors go very green. Something was wrong. It started to add tension to our group as Charlie wouldn't message anyone when she wasn't coming in. There were some days were she wouldn't come in as she was hungover. We all like a drink now and then, but to knowingly drink to the point where you're hungover was inexcusable in my eyes. I constantly had to remind myself that it was her illness that caused this, but it was still frustrating to deal with.

Going away from that tangent, we pushed on. We got our columns in!

What's the first think we do with Long Poles? Lie on them!

Giving us Sloth Realness(btw, finished painted sample under Joe)