Scenic Art For The Theatre

Author : Susan Crabtree,Peter Beudert
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136084294

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Scenic Art for the Theatre by Susan Crabtree,Peter Beudert Pdf

Now in its Third Edition, Scenic Art for the Theatre: History, Tools and Techniques continues to be the most trusted source for both student and professional scenic artists. With new information on scenic design using Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro and other digital imaging softwares this test expands to offer the developing artist more step-by-step instuction and more practical techniques for work in the field. It goes beyond detailing job functions and discussing techniques to serve as a trouble-shooting guide for the scenic artist, providing practical advice for everyday solutions.

Author : Stephen G. Sherwin
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136085017

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Scene Painting Projects for Theatre by Stephen G. Sherwin Pdf

The art, practice, and technique of scene painting is an essential part of theatre design. A scenic artist is responsible for translating the vision of the scenic designer to the realized scenery. Unlike all other scene painting books, this text will take you step-by-step through actual individual scene painting projects. Each project is commonly used in theatrical productions and each project builds upon the skills learned in the previous lesson. From wood and marble, to foliage and drapery, this book will teach the you how to become a skilled scenic painter.

Author : Jennifer Rose Ivey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000515732

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The Scenic Charge Artist's Toolkit by Jennifer Rose Ivey Pdf

The Scenic Charge Artist’s Toolkit is a comprehensive guide to managing a theatrical paint shop. This book introduces the many different options available to a scenic charge artist, as well as the fundamental expectations and responsibilities of planning and running a shop. From the pre-production organization, budgeting, sampling, and sealing, to practical lessons in efficiency and shop maintenance, this text provides options to organize a paint shop no matter the size of the shop, show, or company. Filled with templates for labor and time estimation; tips on leadership and collaboration; techniques for painting and planning textures efficiently; and sustainable practices in health, safety, and wellness, this book provides guidance and practices to successfully manage the inevitable changes in theatre planning and production. It also offers tips and reference material on employment options, gaining employment, and excelling in this profession. Written for early career scenic artists in theatre and students of Scenic Art courses, The Scenic Charge Artist’s Toolkit fills in the gaps of knowledge for scenic artists in the budgeting, planning, and running of shops at summer stock, educational institutions, or freelance working environments. The text includes access to additional online resources such as extended interviews, downloadable informational posters and templates for budgeting and organizing, and videos walking through the use of templates and the budgeting process.

Author : Lynn Pecktal
Publisher : New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015006793825

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Designing and Painting for the Theatre by Lynn Pecktal Pdf

Author : Robert Klingelhoefer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317384380

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The Craft and Art of Scenic Design by Robert Klingelhoefer Pdf

The Craft and Art of Scenic Design: Strategies, Concepts, and Resources explores how to design stage scenery from a practical and conceptual perspective. Discussion of conceptualizing the design through script analysis and research is followed by a comprehensive overview of execution: collaboration with directors and other designers, working with spaces, developing an effective design process, and the aesthetics of stage design. This book features case studies, key words, tip boxes, definitions, and chapter exercises. Additionally, it provides advice on portfolio and career development, contracts, and working with a union.

Author : Clare P. Rowe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136085413

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Drawing and Rendering for Theatre by Clare P. Rowe Pdf

Drawing and Rendering for Theatre, A Practical Course for Scenic, Costume, and Lighting Designers is designed for those of you who are theatrical designers and want to improve your drawing and rendering skills. This gorgeous full-color book includes many examples of student drawings, analyzed and critiqued for areas that need improvement. It also includes numerous examples of design renderings by professional theatrical designers. In addition to the general sections on drawing and painting, it includes separate chapters on costume, scenic, and lighting rendering that include information specific to these design areas.

Author : William Pinnell
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780809327652

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Theatrical Scene Painting by William Pinnell Pdf

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 overview 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. The second edition of Theatrical Scene Painting provides many new essential scene painting projects in a clearer format, broadens the scope of the painting examples, and includes updated methods as well as new lessons. This clear and easily accessible guide gives students the ability to put together recognizable illusions.

Author : Karen Brewster,Melissa Shafer
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781581158496

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Fundamentals of Theatrical Design by Karen Brewster,Melissa Shafer Pdf

Veteran theater designers Karen Brewster and Melissa Shafer have consulted with a broad range of seasoned theater industry professionals to provide an exhaustive guide full of sound advice and insight. With clear examples and hands-on exercises, Fundamentals of Theatrical Design illustrates the way in which the three major areas of theatrical design--scenery, costumes, and lighting--are intrinsically linked. Attractively priced for use as a classroom text, this is a comprehensive resource for all levels of designers and directors. Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.

Author : Pamela Howard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351380331

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What is Scenography? by Pamela Howard Pdf

The third edition of Pamela Howard’s What is Scenography? expands on the author’s holistic analysis of scenography as comprising space, text, research, art, performers, directors and spectators, to examine the changing nature of scenography in the twenty-first century. The book includes new investigations of recent production projects from Howard’s celebrated career, including Carmen and Charlotte: A Tri-Coloured Play with Music, full-colour illustrations of her recent work and updated commentary from a wide spectrum of contemporary theatre makers. This book is suitable for students in Scenography and Theatre Design courses, along with theatre professionals.

Author : Kaoiṁe E. Malloy
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317694274

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The Art of Theatrical Design by Kaoiṁe E. Malloy Pdf

The Art of Theatrical Design: Elements of Visual Composition, Methods, and Practice addresses the core principles that develop the student designer into a true artist, providing a foundation that ensures success with each production design. This text concentrates on the skills necessary to create effective, evocative, and engaging theatrical designs that support the play contextually, thematically, and visually. It gives students the grounding in core design principles they need to approach design challenges and make design decisions in both assigned class projects and realized productions. This book features: In-depth discussions of design elements and principles for costume, set, lighting, sound, and projection designs Coverage of key concepts such as content, context, genre, style, play structure and format, and the demands and limitations of various theatrical spaces Essential principles, including collaboration, inspiration, conceptualization, script analysis, conducting effective research, building a visual library, developing an individual design process, and the role of the critique in collaboration Information on recent digital drawing tool technology, such as the Wacom® Inkling pen, Wacom® Intuos digitizing tablets and digital sketching, and rendering programs such as Autodesk® Sketchbook Pro and Adobe® Photoshop® Chapter exercises and key terms designed to provide an engaging experience with the material and to facilitate student understanding

Author : Rob Napoli,Chuck Gloman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136084935

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Scenic Design and Lighting Techniques by Rob Napoli,Chuck Gloman Pdf

Basic. This is the key word in Scenic Design and Lighting Tecniques: A Basic Guide for Theatre, written by two seasoned professionals with over twenty years of experience. This book is designed to show you how to turn a bare stage into a basic set design, without using heavy language that would bog you down. From materials and construction to basic props and lighting, this book explains all you will need to know to build your set and light it.

Author : Richard M. Isackes,Karen L. Maness
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781941393086

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The Art of the Hollywood Backdrop by Richard M. Isackes,Karen L. Maness Pdf

"Once a guarded cinematic secret, this definitive history reveals for the first time the art and craft of Hollywood's hand painted-backdrops, and pays homage to the scenic artists who brought them to the big screen." -- Slipcase.

Author : Rafael Jaen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351131056

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Theatre Artisans and Their Craft by Rafael Jaen Pdf

Theatre Artisans and Their Craft: The Allied Arts Fields profiles fourteen remarkable artists and technicians who elevate theatre production to new dimensions, explore new materials and technologies, and introduce new safety standards and solutions. Readers will learn how the featured artists delved into entrepreneurial ventures and created their own work for themselves; researching, studying, and experimenting, seeking answers when none were available. The book explores how to make an impact in the entertainment industry from behind the scenes, and how students can model themselves after these successful professionals to jump-start their career in theatre production. Aimed at theatre and film practitioners in the allied arts fields, Theatre Artisans and Their Craft offers a collection of success stories that are both inspiring and informative.

Author : Mark Tweed
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781785004520

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Scenic Construction for the Stage by Mark Tweed Pdf

Scenic Construction for the Stage is a comprehensive guide to the practical processes involved in constructing scenery for the theatre. Offering key insight into the role of the scenic carpenter, Mark Tweed details the progression from interpreting design, model boxes and drawings, to material selection, fabrication and finishing. Additional topics include advice for developing accuracy, finish and consistency; tool selection and sharpening; CDM, Health and Safety; practical workshop mathematics and geometry, and how to fit ironmongery. With an in-depth but accessible approach, this practical book offers advice on how to start out and improve as a scenic carpenter, building a solid repertoire of reliable techniques and working practices to achieve professional results. Includes a foreword by Sir Kenneth Branagh and illustrated throughout with 350 colour photographs and 34 technical drawings and detailed step-by-step instructions.

Author : Eric Appleton,Tracey Lyons
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317274193

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Teaching Introduction to Theatrical Design by Eric Appleton,Tracey Lyons Pdf

Teaching Introduction to Theatrical Design is a week-by-week guide that helps instructors who are new to teaching design, teaching outside of their fields of expertise, or looking for better ways to integrate and encourage non-designers in the design classroom. This book provides a syllabus to teach foundational theatrical design by illustrating process and application of the principals of design in costumes, sets, lights, and sound.