MidSummer Nights Dream Backdrop Painting
This year my school performed the play, “A MidSummer Nights Dream” by William Shakespeare. Of course every play needed backdrops and stage sets to give it the affect and atmosphere required. However, instead of having parents paint these backdrops, a group of 5 IB Art students, including myself, along with out art teacher Ms. Gouldstone were given the job of painting.
Our task was to paint two pieces of canvas, both 12ft by 20ft (WOAH THAT’S HUGE). One was a scene of Ancient Greece, with the blue sky and pillars; the other was that of an old English woodland forest, with a moon, dark night sky and lots of trees. We began on a Saturday, and cleared 2 classrooms to lay the canvases out on the floor and taped them down with duct tape. The process was tedious and long. We had to prime both with white paint and then draw out the scenes. The priming was easy but did take quite a while. I enjoyed the drawing, however it was quite difficult transferring such a small image onto such a huge canvas. With all the difficulties however we got threw and managed to draw out two amazing scenes.
The painting was probably my favorite part; we used such perfect colors on each scene and managed to portray a 3-D effect to the pieces. It took about 2 weeks, however we only worked on Saturdays and at random times throughout the week. In the end the play was phenomenal and the backdrops were the icing on the cake providing realism to the sets.
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