Individual Projects and Samples
Doane University
Professor: Robin McKercher
Fundamentals of Scenic Painting
Advanced Scenic Painting Techniques
Wood sample - base layer process
Wood sample - finished
Brick and siding sample - cutting homasote brick process
Brick and siding sample - scenic dope on homasote process
Brick and siding sample - finished
Brick and siding sample - close-up
Quick brick (2 techniques)
Quick brick technique 1 - (close-up)
Quick brick technique 2 - (close-up)
Custom brick stamp
Brick sample (brickboard)
Stone sample (carved foam, cheesecloth - next step is scenic dope)
Stone sample process - (scenic doped, scumbled, sponged, spattered - next step is to glaze then add grout lines)
Stone sample - finished
Stucco wall - beginning process
Stucco wall (2 techniques)
Foam ornamentation - carving foam, scenic dope, silver
Foam ornamentation - finished
Foam ornamentation - bronze process
Rag-roll
Wallpaper stenciling technique
Wallpaper stenciling technique (close-up)
Tree texture sample
Marble
Drop work - underpainting (muslin was "sized" w/ water and cornstarch mixture, used Pythagorean Theorem to get perfect angles, pounced with charcoal from a large gridded sheet and lightly flogged beforehand)
Underpainting (close-up)
Drop work - glazing process
Drop work - Final touches and highlights
Reference image ("From The Story of Snow White", Maxfield Parrish, 1912)
Constructing a paint bridge to float drops for drying
The bridge underneath a prepared drop - (Pythagorean Theorem for 90 degree angles, sized w/ water-cornstarch mixture, gridded with twine)
Castle drop - paint elevation and gridding with twine
Castle drop - finished
Moon drop - sized and gridded
Moon drop - masking with sawdust and Kraft paper
Moon drop - finished