www.popularmechanics.com: I’ve always been of the mind that there are two types of DIY painters: Those who meticulously prep before a job to guarantee crisp clean lines, and those who are simply good with a brush and can paint well “on the fly”. Having never been a fan of taping and masking, I happen to fall in the latter category. Still, even the most confident painters would do well to think ahead sometimes.
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While I do enjoy seeing paint transform objects everyday into fantastical things, it is one of the tedious things in life that I do not enjoy doing myself. If something needs to be painted a flat color I can do that but as soon as any gradients, changes, designs get involved I quickly find myself out of my wheelhouse. I feel like atomizes is a bit of an exaggeration but it is a way to properly use the word so jokes on me I guess. This guide is a great overview on using a sprayer and I often wonder for our larger, complicated pieces why backpainting is not done with a sprayer. Often it is done with rollers and brushes when I think a sprayer could get it done faster. Overspray would be a huge concern when other pieces are on the floor which is a lot or most of it so that could be it. Also there are a lot of clogging and other larger contaminates that can get worked into the paint that would need to be processed out. So maybe with that and training it is why it's not a great idea. Maybe if we had a dedicated paint shop with larger units going through at one time and not staggered as much.
I’ve never really thought about using a paint sprayer to do large pieces and get an even coat. I can see where it would save our paint shops a significant amount of time. However, there is the constant issue of overspray and having the correct PPE and maintenance of the equipment that don’t have to be considered as much when using brushes and rollers. For putting scratch coats and repainting pieces to stage black this could be really helpful. I would almost wonder if the approach of spraying large scenic pieces would be beneficial only if the paint shop permanently installed more or less a spray paint booth or had it’s own shop that would remove the potential of contamination from scenic and dust. I think that special consideration for skill would need to be taken into account as well because there’s a very real possibility that scenic artists and charge artists have limited experience in spray painting, so there may be an adjustment period and learning curve when it’s initially implemented.
I think for large scenery a paint spray would be nice. It makes me think of the Arcadia walls because they’re huge flats that are just solid green and spray tools like this could streamline that process. I wonder how much it would cost to add a set of these and all of their necessary accessories to stock at CMU. I also am curious what types of paint options there are for a machine like this that doesn’t require ventilation. Thinking specifically about our paint shop that has no air vent system, I wonder what type of PPE and air flow this would require us to enact. The pictures and videos from the article show people in tight rooms with no mask or glasses on so maybe once you look at the safety guide with the sprayer you don’t need anything (?). If that were the case that would be amazing since currently we cannot spray anything due to lack of a sizeable vent hood. You can spray paint small things in the costume shop but it’s just not as effective or useful for large scenery.
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