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Theatrical Scene Painting: A Lesson Guide

By Pinnell, William H

Theatrical Scene Painting: A Lesson Guide book

Theatrical Scene Painting: A Lesson Guide

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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 overw 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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
170
Release Date:
1987-06-01
Publication Date:
1987-06-01
Publisher:
Southern Illinois University Press
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
0809313324
Weight:
363 g
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