Monsignor Slade Catholic School was performing “State Fair” and wanted to decorate the hallway leading to the auditorium to set the mood. I created a 8′ x 12′ carnival mural, a prize booth, and a prize pig in a pen. They also repurposed the Fortune Teller booth I built for their Wicked Woods haunted trail fundraiser into a ticket booth. The mural started as a rough sketch on a grid. I used that grid to scale the mural up to full size, penciled it in, and then started painting. The fireworks were fun to paint. The prize booth was a modification of a similar booth I built for the Wicked Woods. The pig is simply a plywood flat that’s painted. I really impressed myself with how dimensional it turned out. When he was displayed in his “pen,” I provided some computer speakers and digitally-looping pig grunting noises to complete the effect. I think the audience really enjoyed the decorated hallway before the show. Speaking of the show, I also built a box-style camera out of junk I had laying around. Considering the lens is an old sport drink bottlecap, the handle is an old belt, the viewfinder is a bent wire hanger, and the flash is part handrail, soccer cone, and giant badminton birdie, I think the camera turned out pretty nice!
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