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Friday 25 May 2012

victorian theatre poster


My submission for an upcoming exhibition at The King's Theatre, Portsmouth. Took just over two days to make. Yeah I guess I'm still obsessed with Victorians for some reason.




The text was set up digitally, printed, cut into stencils, filled in with a sponge and acrylic paint, carefully tidied and then outlined with ink for extra legibility. I would've liked to have crammed even more text in there but I sadly ran out of room. Maybe a bigger canvas would've been better but I've never really worked with text in this way before so it was already a bit of a risk.
It is on A3 paper and card. The incredibly anachronistic frame puts it at 17x21".