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venusundaei finally finished painting!!!
i rewarded myself with a set of acrylic nails lmao. but i also kind of like forced myself to finish on sunday (two days before the first school performance, mind you) by creating my appointment w the salon for monday morning. i spent like seven hours there on sunday, everything aches still and my neck is outta whack and i'm still coughing something nasty but! it's done.
i honestly can't even say i'm 100% happy w it or proud or anything but at least it's finished, and the kids seem to like it and three other staff members complimented me on it and i mean i always appreciate that haha.
plus it looks a lot better under stage lights than the darkness i was painting in haha
i've been very frustrated and stressed lately tho. i was feeling like the set painting was all dumped on me, because i was the one coming in day after day by myself. then other people said as much without me mentioning it and so i knew i wasn't just being paranoid. even the theater handy man who builds the sets told the finance director i should get paid from the set budget since they didn't use any of it 😭
something i realized halfway through, that just became more and more apparent every day i went in there to paint for hours at a time, was that it is just a huge ass space. like the back wall alone is 18 feet. and so even when you're there for hours you don't get a large percent of the whole set finished and it's a bit discouraging. that's especially true for our set that was all extensive scenery. there were actually multiple people who came in to help for their own hours at a time but they only got so much done themselves bc god it's just such extensive work. my first ever set i've painted and def my last for at least a while haha.
then at the same time i was making like 10+ props. which is something i do totally love doing and i am actually proud of most of the props even tho they are corny haha. it was basically just the time crunch that was freaking me out. plus the fact that the director didn't seem to ever care whenever i expressed concerns over any of it — the unbalanced amount of time i was spending more than anyone else, the fact that i was stressed about money since i had no time to earn it over what i had to do for the show, on top of other concerns i had and that the kids in the cast had about costumes and exits and other logistics. she was very very very good at making me know she heard me but then didn't care, and it was the most frustrating thing in the world. honestly if i didn't know other people had the same problem w her i'd have probably gone insane by now sobs
but! the kids are cute, they've been working really hard and i want them to have a good show! i wish i could have made a nicer set but it works, it's not too bad anyway, and honestly i spent more time painting it than the show even runs for lmao.
and i enjoy working on the kids shows. i just need better adults around next time haha
i rewarded myself with a set of acrylic nails lmao. but i also kind of like forced myself to finish on sunday (two days before the first school performance, mind you) by creating my appointment w the salon for monday morning. i spent like seven hours there on sunday, everything aches still and my neck is outta whack and i'm still coughing something nasty but! it's done.
i honestly can't even say i'm 100% happy w it or proud or anything but at least it's finished, and the kids seem to like it and three other staff members complimented me on it and i mean i always appreciate that haha.
plus it looks a lot better under stage lights than the darkness i was painting in haha
i've been very frustrated and stressed lately tho. i was feeling like the set painting was all dumped on me, because i was the one coming in day after day by myself. then other people said as much without me mentioning it and so i knew i wasn't just being paranoid. even the theater handy man who builds the sets told the finance director i should get paid from the set budget since they didn't use any of it 😭
something i realized halfway through, that just became more and more apparent every day i went in there to paint for hours at a time, was that it is just a huge ass space. like the back wall alone is 18 feet. and so even when you're there for hours you don't get a large percent of the whole set finished and it's a bit discouraging. that's especially true for our set that was all extensive scenery. there were actually multiple people who came in to help for their own hours at a time but they only got so much done themselves bc god it's just such extensive work. my first ever set i've painted and def my last for at least a while haha.
then at the same time i was making like 10+ props. which is something i do totally love doing and i am actually proud of most of the props even tho they are corny haha. it was basically just the time crunch that was freaking me out. plus the fact that the director didn't seem to ever care whenever i expressed concerns over any of it — the unbalanced amount of time i was spending more than anyone else, the fact that i was stressed about money since i had no time to earn it over what i had to do for the show, on top of other concerns i had and that the kids in the cast had about costumes and exits and other logistics. she was very very very good at making me know she heard me but then didn't care, and it was the most frustrating thing in the world. honestly if i didn't know other people had the same problem w her i'd have probably gone insane by now sobs
but! the kids are cute, they've been working really hard and i want them to have a good show! i wish i could have made a nicer set but it works, it's not too bad anyway, and honestly i spent more time painting it than the show even runs for lmao.
and i enjoy working on the kids shows. i just need better adults around next time haha
