Prop Studios Internship

In June I undertook 3 weeks work experience at Prop Studios based in Burgess Hill. I wasn't too sure what I would be doing, I thought I might be making teas and doing administration tasks, but when I arrived on the Thursday I jumped straight in. I started on helping out with the Debenhams project for the new seasonal installation making little toy boats for the children's section, as well as the props for Ted Baker.

The next week was a new task, the start of a project for the summer ball black tie event at the Royal Academy of Arts. It was sponsored by Faberge and was a huge project. Our task was to make 70 eggs and 70 Cakes and involved a lot of trial and error to start off with. Here is the process we went through:

Step1: Paper mache polystyrene models of the cakes

Step2: Plaster the cakes with colours blue, green and pink

Step3: After drying, we sanded down the plaster to make the shape smooth and consistent

Step4: We then went over the plaster with a coat of paint

Step5: Decoration of the eggs and cakes with diamonds and beads giving them the faberge look.