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Hello! I’m Addison Griffin; full time scenic artist at Gulfshore Playhouse Naples, FL. I’m starting an independent study outlined by Crabtree and Beudert’s Scenic Art for the Theatre: A Pathway of Student Projects. The study is projected to take the full year 2023-2024 as I’m trudging through month by month at my leisure and want to really exercise projects to completion. I’m excited for the practice because Gulfshore Playhouse is gearing up for seasons of heavy drop work with the construction of a new theatre opening approximately 2024-2025. I also have the personal goal of testing into USA membership/apprenticeship around that time as well. Needless to say I need the practice and advice, accountability, and constructive criticism from experienced scenics along the way would be much appreciated. I’d also like to invite any artists like myself who desperately need a brush up on trompe l’oeil to join me and post any process photos, updates, or final projects from past or present- it’d be awesome to have someone to struggle through with. I look forward to problem solving and learning with everyone. Thanks in advance! 🙂
I love this! I will jump in when I have some time. Trompe l’oeil party anyone?
This one was supposed to be easy and it was NOT lol. Overall not too rocky of a process just relearned/stumbled through brush work. Struggled a bit with mixing and pushing values. Not quite sure I found the sweet spot value wise but not too bad. Was a bit heavy handed/shaky with highlights and cutlines. Good practice round; time for the next one! Also attaching my Tentative Schedule/Curriculum because I made one, so why not 🙂
Couple of things to work on- cylinders and anything circular in perspective should never have what appears to be a corner. Your cylinder is drawn in a football shape. The edges of the perspective oval should always be round like your highlight. If you’re having trouble drawing the bottom curve, lightly draw in the hidden back curve to check it.
did you just do a brush stroke for your red circle highlight? They look a little contrived or drawn. They’ll look more natural if it’s just a nuanced brush stroke. Just like you didn’t “draw” or fill in the straight line highlights. Let the brush do the work for you.
Couple of things to work on- cylinders and anything circular in perspective should never have what appears to be a corner. Your cylinder is drawn in a football shape. The edges of the perspective oval should always be round like your highlight. If you’re having trouble drawing the bottom curve, lightly draw in the hidden back curve to check it.
did you just do a brush stroke for your red circle highlight? They look a little contrived or drawn. They’ll look more natural if it’s just a nuanced brush stroke. Just like you didn’t “draw” or fill in the straight line highlights. Let the brush do the work for you.
Awesome, thanks for the advice! Yes, the highlights on the spheres were “drawn” in with a smaller brush because I had such a hard time with the lowlight looking natural (that’s a single stroke blotch with a big brush but took a couple tries to look right). I was surprised how many times I ditched the bamboo and got stuck on one thing. Definitely a bit over worked. With the sphere I really didn’t want any directional brush strokes, would’ve liked less strokes throughout the piece generally, but was having a hard time blending it out even with wet on wet. Hopefully things will get less unintentionally textured/cartoony over time and I’ll pay better attention to perspective/cartooning in the future.
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