nobody told me i had paint on my face : /
scenic painting and
work with properties!
The mix of my two loves - performing and visual art! I have been involved with properties work since high school, where I was the head of the props department at my high school and would design/curate the props for all nine shows yearly.
I rediscovered this love of scenic/property creation during my senior year of college. I now work in the scene shop at James Madison University creating props. I must say, I am lauded for my detail work and great understanding of color/texture! 😼😄
CHECK OUT SOME OF MY WORK BELOW!
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My first time working with charcoal! These were some illustrations I created for George’s sketchbook for the production of Sunday in the Park with George I was in; these are based on/recreations of some of Seurat’s real works.
SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
These are pannels that were used for in the front of the proscenium; they were meant to mimic canvas draping onto the stage that symbolize a possible early sketch of what would become the iconic work, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte. The trees were modeled after the trees in the background of the work.
I was heavily involved in the props creation process for this production; I painted Karen the Computer, Patrick’s Rock, and - my pride and joy: Plankton’s Louis Vuitton-inspired blue stained leather bag.
The bag took about 20 hours; every symbol is hand-painted and untraced — an absolute labor of love and I am so happy how it turned out how it did.
I created the rock out of pieces of cardboard that I measured, cut, and connected with gaff tape. It is 8.5 feet horizontally and 5 feet tall vertically (at its highest point. I then painted the rock to look to be in a similar styling to the cartoon, using varying values of brown.
The goal with Karen was to create a look similar to the cartoon, splotching/mixing different values of blue, black, and white to create the look of welded metal.
