| SCENERY PAINTING
          FOR THE AMATEUR MUSICAL THEATRE and PANTOMIME | 
| BRIGADOON - page eight | |
| Designer Donald O'Brien. Scenic Artist Brian
        Willis. Sets built by Andy Bell, Donald Wilson and Alan Rankin Performed by Portrush Music Society at the Riverside Theatre Coleraine (1998) | |
|  | Wings for audience right. Photographed in the workshop. No paint tin for scale but I think these flats were fifteen feet high. See the bottom of these flats to work out which tree is which. I have included these to show the old saying "when painting trees don't forget to leave some holes for the birdies to fly through" When blocking in I leave these holes then put in the sky colour towards the end of the painting work. It's at that stage that I also put in the boughs which are in front of that sky. I am always intrigued that the eye happily accepts sky where in fact the trees behind would have obliterated it . CLICK HERE TO SEE WHAT A "REAL" BRIGADOON LOOKS LIKE. 
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