At present I am working on "Jekyll and Hyde the Musical". As you can see my work is nearly completed. I'm not doing the whole set, which is mainly lots of steps and platforms etc. I am just doing small "arty" bits for them as this picture shows. There are items from three separate scenes here. In the foreground I am standing beside a scaled down front of a steam train engine. This will only be glimpsed as it to be surrounded by smoke. And behind I have painted some big double doors. On the left of the photo is part of a room interior with an imitation plaster cove and a quickly dashed off Canaletto painting to take the bareness off the wall. All the panelling on doors and walls are painted on with depth hinted at by painted on shadows.
FOOTNOTE.. "The Flying Scotsman"
The locomotive was completed at Doncaster works on 7 February 1923. It cost £7,944 and was given the running number No 1472. Following a short period on display at Marylebone station, the A1 express passenger locomotive No 1472 was put into service.
In 1924 the LNER were invited to display a locomotive at the British Empire Exhibition. No 1472 was awaiting repairs, so was re-numbered 4472 under the new LNER numbering scheme, named Flying Scotsman, and placed before an adoring public. This established a pattern for the LNER of using Flying Scotsman as a flagship locomotive around the UK.
