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Saturday, July 27, 2013
Wood Graining Techniques
Prop Agenda: The National Theatre in London has this great video on how to create fake wood graining with paint. They have many more videos on scenic art techniques, and a number of videos about props as well.
2 comments:
Izzy P.
said...
It looks so easy when other people do it! Wood graining can be very hard but he's made it much easier with the special graining tools. I didn't know those existed so when I have done wood graining, it hasn't come out as nicely as that one did! It's so cool that tools like those have been invented and produced to make scene painting more realistic. An entire show can be killed when the set looks like it is covered in paint and that we weren't just dropped into the world of the play. So much can be achieved by a realistic looking set, and people are just getting better and better at it. I don't know if these tools were made specifically for scene painting, and I know many tools in theatre are stolen from other professions - I would be interested to see where those tools originated and if they are just for theatre. And if so, who else have adopted them? Furniture makers?
I find this technique to be quite helpful and authentic looking, especially from a distance. I used this technique to help me better sketch wood grain. The National Theater in London makes the process look so easy, but yet there are more stepping involved then they are showing. I feel that the first technique is far more believable then the second.
2 comments:
It looks so easy when other people do it! Wood graining can be very hard but he's made it much easier with the special graining tools. I didn't know those existed so when I have done wood graining, it hasn't come out as nicely as that one did! It's so cool that tools like those have been invented and produced to make scene painting more realistic. An entire show can be killed when the set looks like it is covered in paint and that we weren't just dropped into the world of the play. So much can be achieved by a realistic looking set, and people are just getting better and better at it.
I don't know if these tools were made specifically for scene painting, and I know many tools in theatre are stolen from other professions - I would be interested to see where those tools originated and if they are just for theatre. And if so, who else have adopted them? Furniture makers?
I find this technique to be quite helpful and authentic looking, especially from a distance. I used this technique to help me better sketch wood grain. The National Theater in London makes the process look so easy, but yet there are more stepping involved then they are showing. I feel that the first technique is far more believable then the second.
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