Painting my room

Before I was born, my staff asked Rick Young, the scenic designer at Raleigh Little Theatre to paint my room. Here's the action. The most recent photos are at the top.

Here's a 30-second movie of the room (taken with Dad's Canon S40 digital camera).

Click the image for a larger version [29 October 2003] It's all finished!! Here's the finished night time side of the room. Rick painted one wall a slightly darker purple than the other three -- it is night time on that side afterall. The landscape is hills and trees and a lighthouse (very cool). Tonight Mum & Dad will assemble the crib and start getting my room ready for me.

Click the image for a larger version [29 October 2003] Here's the finished product. This is the daytime side of the room. Notice the city skyline along the top of the wall. Since the last photos, Rick applied another coat of paint to the walls plus touched up some of the skyline. Then a big cleanup of all the tape and plastic.

Click the image for a larger version [24 October 2003] Rick came back today and finished off the skyline. If you compare it to yesterday's photos, you can see he's taken off the tape which exposed the building and trees - cool huh? He also painted the fourth wall - a slightly darker purple on the night side of the room. Looks good!

Click the image for a larger version [23 October 2003] Wall colour! This is the colour of three of the walls, the daytime side (sort of the colour- the flash has washed it out a bit). Dad will take another shot in the daytime.

Click the image for a larger version [23 October 2003] Rick's back! He spent most of the day here today working on the walls. Here's the stenciling of the skyline. He's drawn on some purple tape, then he cuts out the shapes and paints them in. Very clever.

Click the image for a larger version [29 September 2003] Here's the finished daytime side to match the nighttime in the picture below. Very cool! Tomorrow I think he's starting on the skyline!!

Click the image for a larger version [29 September 2003] Here's the finished product (or very near finished) of the nighttime side of my ceiling. Today, Rick overpainted the clouds with black and blue colours. Its very impressive what he's done. Check the other photo, above, of the daytime side too.

Click the image for a larger version [28 September 2003] Today Rick painted the base layer of the clouds around the moon. He says they aren't finished yet as he has more colours to paint in. He'll be back tomorrow...

Click the image for a larger version [27 September 2003] Rick worked on clouds today. He airbrushed clouds using multiple colours across the daytime portion of the ceiling, plus some extra colour around the sun. Notice that he's also painted clouds on the wall too - very cool. Cumulous clouds I think! He'll be back tomorrow - wonder what's next?!

Click the image for a larger version [25 September 2003] Rick came in today during the day and painted the moon and the sun. Here's the moon in the nighttime part of my ceiling. The sun's on the other side in the daytime. It looks like a real moon, and that's because he based it off a photo of the real thing!

Click the image for a larger version [24 September 2003] Another shot of the finished base. Tomorrow he'll start painting the details, starting with the sun and the moon.

Click the image for a larger version [24 September 2003] Rick has finished the blending now. A nice smooth transition from daytime to nighttime.

Click the image for a larger version [23 September 2003] The beginning of the blending of the colours. Rick used a compressed air gun and water to make this effect. Tomorrow, when it dries, he'll use the compressed air with paint to add extra colors. Then, with the base all done, the details will begin!

Click the image for a larger version [23 September 2003] And now the night time side of the room. This is black with a shade of blue in it.

Click the image for a larger version [23 September 2003] Now onto the second color (a slightly darker colour). Rick will blend the edges later on.

Click the image for a larger version [23 September 2003] Rick starting to paint the daytime side of the ceiling. Daytime is on one side of the room and night time is on the other side. Sounds interesting!

Click the image for a larger version [22 September 2003] Here the room is all taped up ready to paint. Plastic on the floor and windows and tape everywhere.

Click the image for a larger version [22 September 2003] Here's the corner of the room before they began. Cream walls and white ceiling. Boring!