PAINTING PERFORMANCE: Prop Making: Stick Brooms

In preparation for our final performance, me and another group member met up to make brooms together that could be used to paint with during our piece. We collected sticks and twigs from the surrounding area and brought them to the session.

Whilst creating the brooms, we were thinking about the marks they would make. My broom had many more bristles that my group members, and so they will create different marks when dragged across a painted surface. We chose a larger sturdy stick as the broom handle and taped and bound others to one end securely to produce broom/rake like painting tools.

It was quite a theraputic session and It is interesting to think that our final performance will instantly have a connection to nature and place because of the elements within it. This is highly relevant to my subject work. I wanted to integrate nature into the performance and making painting tools with it is an interesting way to do so.

Our brooms are completed and ready to paint with. Making props for our performance was an enjoyable use of my time and I think it demonstrated that we have really considered the piece and what we would like to achieve within it. Lastly, we used string and wrapped it around the handle to make them look more like authentic old style brooms. We look forward to seeing the marks that are made with these and how successful they are in blending colour to get rid of a black line within our final outcome.

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