Theatrical Scene Painting : A Lesson Guide / William H. Pinnell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pinnell, William H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scene painting--Technique.

Scene painting.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale, Illinois : Southern Illinois University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Theatrical Scene Painting: A Lesson Guide, "second edition, is a practical guide to scene painting for students and novices, as well as a reference for intermediate scene painters who wish to refresh or supplement their basic skills. Drawing on his extensive teaching and scene-painting experience, William H. Pinnell clarifies and expands on the lessons of the first edition, providing a detailed overview of the fundamentals of traditional scene painting. The guide not only covers the basic tools of the trade and various methods of creating texture on scenery but also includes more advanced techniques for scene making, beginning with stonework, woodwork, and wallpaper before moving on to the more intricate techniques of moldings, paneling, drapery, foliage, shiny metal, perspective illusions, scale transfers, scenic drops, and scrims. Pinnell also includes refinements and embellishments that can lead to the development of personal style without sacrificing the goal of realism and more advanced work. Alternative methods to achieve different effects are also featured. "Theatrical Scene Painting: A Lesson Guide" was the first book of its kind to provide clear step-by-step instructions in how to paint a wide variety of basic and advanced effects commonly needed for the theater. This new edition clarifies the origins of painting techniques and is supplemented with clearer step-by-step descriptions, new instructional photographs, and drawings that illustrate each major step. This edition also includes additional painting projects and their possible variations, a gallery of nineteen examples of professional scenic works, and an expanded glossary to eliminate confusion in terms. Useful to both self-taught artists and students, each lesson in the guide can be a stand-alone topic or can form the foundation for a student to build skills for increasingly complex techniques. The second edition of "Theatrical Scene Painting" provides many new essential scene painting projects in a clearer format, broadens the scope of the painting examples, and includes updated methods as well as new lessons. This clear and easily accessible guide gives students the ability to put together recognizable illusions.

Contents:

pt. 1. Materials and techniques of texture

1. Space : paint frame ; boomerang ; continental system ; floor paper

2. Equipment : buckets and containers ; paint carriers ; brushes ; paint and dye : dry pigments, casein, vinyl paints, latex paints, dyes, bronze powders

3. Color : color psychology ; basic color mixing ; color wheel ; primaries, secondaries, complementaries ; using black and white ; Table of Nine Mixtures ; classic scene-painting palette (traditional terminology)

4. Mixing the base, tint, and shade : procedure ; analogous colors and the common denominator

5. Preparing the surface to be painted : flameproofing ; primer coat

6. Basic scene painting and texture : focus and toning ; procedural methods ; graded wet blend ; scumbling ; spattering (and spatter and drag) ; sponging ; stippling ; rag rolling ; rolling ; flogging ; puddling ; dry brushing ; stenciling and stamping ; spraying ; brush care

pt. 2. Basic lessons

7. The three-dimensional illusion and the light source : highlights and lowlights ; shadows, glazes/washes ; lining ; using the straightedge

8. Stonework : bricks ; rough stones ; cut stones ; marble

9. Wallpaper : painting considerations ; pounce method ; stenciling ; pattern arrangements ; spattering or spraying ; stamping a pattern

10. Woodwork : graining ; rendering methods : wash method, opaque method, dry-brush method ; wainscoting ; recessed and protruding panels ; additional examples

pt. 3. Advanced lessons

11. Cornice moldings : Roman ogee and cove ; reversing the light sources

12. Panels and posts

13. Reflective metallic objects : graphic-arts approach ; scene-painting approach

14. Draperies

15. Foliage

16. Clouds, mountains, and water

17. Scale transfers : painter's elevation ; gridding ; opaque and overhead projectors

18. Perspective and the vista : perspective ; vanishing points

19. Drops and scrims : laying out ; starch priming ; storage drops ; flexible glue ; painting the drop ; translucencies ; cut drops and scrims

20. A final word

Glossary.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4416-1442-7

0-8093-8087-0

OCLC:

508773590