SCENERY PAINTING
FOR THE AMATEUR MUSICAL THEATRE and PANTOMIME |
WIZARD OF OZ Coleraine 2014 Page two |
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THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD cloth |
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Cloth size 20 feet wide by 11 feet tall. I have hinted at faces on some of the trees. To get that even, graduated, sky, on my blank canvas I first drew in my trees with charcoal. Not bothering to be too accurate or detailed. I found the position of these trunks by slavishly squaring my original small sketch, then transferring the squares onto the cloth and copying the outlines. I then used masking tape beside these outlines on the cloth. (Not on the charcoal as the tape will not stick) This then "reserved" the tree trunks and I was able to paint the whole sky without stopping at each trunk. I used the watercolourists wet-in-wet technique to blend the sky. Working as fast as I could, I started with a base colour of light blue at the top and as I worked down the cloth so I added more white. Then, whilst the paint was still wet, I removed all my masking tape. Leave it to dry and you'll break your finger nail trying to pick the tape off. |
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TOADSTOOL DETAIL. |
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Photo by Sean Magee |
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And just to show it's not all done by computers and Photoshop. Above is a pic. of me completing the cloth. For the higher sections I use a scaffold tower mounted on castors. See "action" photo on the right. Photo shows me starting to block in the colours for the Munchkinland backcloth Photo by Phillip Kelly |
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