Kenny stands "Outside Widow Twankey's Laundry"

This is a simple bookflat. The hinge is down the "crack" above the letter "Y" The apparent 3d is achieved by perspective painting and shadows. See where the flats meet the floor. However the garments on the line are real ("practical" in theatrical parlance) and were made for the scene by Kenny's wife Anne.

Confession time. I got in a muddle when painting the shadow of the shutter below the
window-sill. In retrospect, looking at it here, the shadow should have been larger.

The barrel of Black Bush is a reference to the local Bushmills Whiskey Distillery

"The Palace Garden" Total width 18 feet. 5ltr paint tin at base of curtain for scale. Material was scarce (it was all donated) and I did not have enough for a full-width cloth. So painted two separate sections with curtains between them. I have tried to depict a loggia or pergola with curtains hanging from the foliage-covered wooden beams.

I have never painted a scene with two different horizon /eyelines before. The eyeline for the foreground balustrade is at the audiences' eye level which is just over a foot above the stage floor. But the background eyeline is where the sea joins the sky. The background is loosely based on the Willow Pattern with bridge, temple, boat and island, hence the cartoony dark blue outlines. However in order to give the impression of looking 'out' at the willow pattern scene I don't have outlines on the foreground balustrade. I have only once before painted outlines in the 50 or so years I have painted scenery.

Hi everyone in P7 Bushmills Primary School
Best wishes from Brian, (Santa)