RACHEL LANGLEY
SOFT GOODS
FLOWER SURROUND
THE FANTASTICKS
DIRECTOR: SUSANNA GELLERT
SCENIC/LIGHTING DESIGNER : SCOTT ZIELINSKI
SCENIC CHARGE ARTIST: RACHEL LANGLEY
ASST. SCENIC CHARGE ARTIST: CHRISTINA MCCORMICK
SCENIC ART INTERNS: JESS NOTARIUS, CHRISTINA COZAD
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PROCESS:
- Sized muslin on frame
- x 2 layers of white on front and back to prevent light leak
- base coat dark grey
- cartooned basic outlines
- based in basic shapes
- cartooned more detail
- added details
- highlight and shadow
- large sections of wash to create dimensionality
LARGE SCALED BOOKS- LIGHT BOXES
THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH
DIRECTOR: PIPER GOODEVE
SCENIC DESIGN: BRIAN DUDKIEWICZ
SCENIC CHARGE ARTIST: RACHEL LANGLEY
ASST. SCENIC CHARGE ARTIST: CHRISTINA MCCORMICK
SCENIC ART INTERNS: JESS NOTARIUS, CHRISTINA COZAD
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PROCESS: Spines + pages lit up to simulate marquee lights, and various parts of titles lit up.
-Created pounces for all covers and spines.
-Painted all spines and pages as tranclucencies on muslin.
-wrapped on Sono tube to get curve- pounces used to create light boxes.
-Covers skim coated, primed, based
-used cut rollers for texture w/ glazes
-used pounces, details hand painted
-sealed x2 w/ flat
-pages were muslin wrapped on luan (some with cut outs)
-used wash w/ cut chip brush (basically graining) for pages
TRANSLUCENT DROPS
GUYS AND DOLLS
DIRECTOR: MALCOM EWEN
SCENIC DESIGNER : HOWARD JONES
SCENIC CHARGE ARTIST: BRIAN CHARLES THOMAS
ASST. SCENIC CHARGE ARTIST: SAMUEL VAWTER
SCENIC ART INTERN: RACHEL LANGLEY
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PROCESS:
Sewer Drop: starch, string grid, cartooning, ink in lines with FEV using splines, base purple areas, base pipes etc., texture with cut rollers, highlight and shade with washes, washes for yellow highlights in translucent area, cut roller for texture, purple wash for shadow.
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City-scape Drop: starch, lay out building outlines and windows, yellow translucent windows, flip mask translucent windows, spray translucent sky, base buildings, remove masking, hatch from ultramarine blue (offstage) to teal (onstage), shade windows. When we checked the translucency of the windows we discovered that paint had bled through, to fix this problem we cut out the windows and duchmaned new muslin over the holes.
TRANSLUCENT SHADOW DROP
WEST SIDE STORY
DIRECTOR: TIM FORT
SCENIC DESIGNER : RUSSELL PARKMAN
SCENIC CHARGE ARTIST: RACHEL LANGLEY
ASST. SCENIC CHARGE ARTIST: BECCA NIPPER
SCENIC ART INTERN: BROOKE STURDIVANT
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PROCESS:
- Laid and starched drop
- Measured and snapped lines
- Filled in lines. Used large brushes and a heavy wash, applied with quick but purposeful strokes. Lines wanted to be rough and sketchy and to emphasize the feeling that they were each one long brush stroke.
- Applied another coat to the lines to opaque, but didn't bring this coat all the way to the edge (to help soften edges)
- Lightly sprayed blue over whole drop
- laid out sawdust masking
- paynes spray over whole drop, with movement
- pulled sawdust and did one more light pass of paynes to tone all together
LATTICE CUT ROLL DROP
MAMMA MIA
DIRECTOR: TIM FORT
SCENIC DESIGNER : HOWARD JONES
SCENIC CHARGE ARTIST: CHRISTINA McCORMICK
ASST. SCENIC CHARGE ARTIST: REBECCA BEAUDOIN-LEMMER
SCENIC ART APPRENTICE: RACHEL LANGLEY
SCENIC SWING INTERN: SAMANTHA MYERS
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PROCESS:
- Laid and starched drop
- Measured and snapped lines
- Filled in lines. Used large brushes and a heavy wash, applied with quick but purposeful strokes. Lines wanted to be rough and sketchy and to emphasize the feeling that they were each one long brush stroke.
- Applied another coat to the lines to opaque, but didn't bring this coat all the way to the edge (to help soften edges)
- Lightly sprayed blue over whole drop
- laid out sawdust masking
- paynes spray over whole drop, with movement
- pulled sawdust and did one more light pass of paynes to tone all together
ROAD SCENE
PUMP BOYS & DINETTES
DIRECTOR: TIM FORT
SCENIC DESIGNER : RUSSELL PARKMAN
SCENIC CHARGE ARTIST: BRIAN CHARLES THOMAS
ASST. SCENIC CHARGE ARTIST: SAMUEL VAWTER
SCENIC ART INTERN: RACHEL LANGLEY
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PROCESS:
- Laid and starched drop
- cartooned
- sprays for sky
- painted in road and buildings
- foliage
- details and shadows
TEXT HEAVY SOFT GOODS
PUMP BOYS & DINETTES
PETER AND THE STARCATCHER
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SCENIC CHARGE ARTIST: BRIAN CHARLES THOMAS
ASST. SCENIC CHARGE ARTIST: SAMUEL VAWTER
SCENIC ART INTERN: RACHEL LANGLEY
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OLD CHURCH DROP
INFERNO: A HALLOWEEN MASQUERADE
SCENIC CHARGE ARTIST: CHARLOTTE VOSSELER
SCENIC ARTIST: RACHEL LANGLEY
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PROCESS:
*due to constraints of the space we had to paint this in two sections
- Laid and starched drop
- measured and snapped grid
- masked translucent areas
- cartooned architecture
- based general shapes
- added shading and texture (multiple layers)
- sprayed green
- removed masking laid in window architecture + shading
- yellowing in windows
- moved drop and repeated steps to finish the bottom, making sure to blend and match above
FOLIAGE FLATS
ANNE OF GREEN GABLES
DIRECTOR: TIM FORT
SCENIC DESIGNER : CHARLIE CORCORAN
SCENIC CHARGE ARTIST: RACHEL LANGLEY
ASST. SCENIC CHARGE ARTIST: BECCA NIPPER
SCENIC ART INTERN: BROOKE STURDIVANT
SCENIC SWING INTERN: AMANDA DELORE
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PROCESS:
- size with base coat (yellowy green)
- rough in basic structure
- fill in detail
- applied to hard flat with cut out top edge