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DramaMamaStill
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Joined: 2/07/05 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 31 |
 Topic: fake lettucePosted: 9/16/08 at 11:26am |
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I need to make a large fake olive salad for a play and am wondering if anyone has any suggestions for making large fake leaf lettuce. thanks in advance you guys are always so helpful
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chel
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Joined: 6/20/07 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 106 |
Posted: 9/28/08 at 7:36pm |
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Am I too late to answer?
We have a fake salad in our show and the leaves are simply taken from a plastic house plant from another show; cut into smaller sizes. My ladies are adding sculpy veggies to it as they speak. This works if the audience isn't too close to examine it.
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DramaMamaStill
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Posted: 9/28/08 at 7:54pm |
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Not too late at all. I always think out the weird things I need for a show well in advance. We have not even had auditions yet :). That is a great idea. I am the collector of disposed of fake foliage around here so I would bet I already have some thing that might work.
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chel
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Posted: 10/07/08 at 12:09am |
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who does that.
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Angela B
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Posted: 12/05/08 at 3:02pm |
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I took coffee filters and painted them. Then tore them to look like iceberg lettuce...
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vickifrank
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Posted: 12/05/08 at 4:32pm |
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If you want the stuffer variety of large lettuce leaf, you can starch cheesecloth then paint green. (Similar to the way crafty people make little ghosts for table decorations). You probably could starch tissue paper cut into large sizes.
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spikesgirl
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Posted: 12/06/08 at 7:40am |
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And if you don't have cheesecloth, I used muslin with great success. Cut it to shape, dip it in some dutch and shape it over a balloon. Then simply paint. I had to make a mess of it to dress a roasted pig and you couldn't tell this from the fake silk stuff we had in the prop room.
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DramaMamaStill
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Posted: 12/08/08 at 11:33am |
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Wow thanks for all the great ideas... I did find some silk foliage very cheap and defoliated it (by the way the leftover stems are great beach grass... very sparse looking) I like the other ideas though too and may incorporate them as well to make it a nice big interesting salad
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