student work

by Jeremiah Stearns

Scenic Painting I first project.

by Sammy Boyarsky

Created a paint elevation in photoshop by importing a friends face into an existing painting. Then used that elevation to paint a faux oil painting.

Highlight and Shadow project by Alyssa Thompson.

Fall 2020’s Scenic Painting I ‘s Highlight and Shadow Projects.

by Kate Spademan

Project using only HVLP’s and hand held misters, no brushes.

Kate Spademan

Finished spray project for Scenic Painting II

Dry Pigment project by Emilia Consalvi

Students make their own paint using dry pigment and hide glue.

Jeein Song and Heekyong Kim work on their column projects.

Scenic Painting I Ionic column by Shiloah Grace Frederick.

Fall 2020’s Scenic Painting I’s Substrates Projects

The students explored different paints and surfaces.

Carved foam and painted muslin. Painted by Yu Su Kim

No Brush Landscape project painted by sHannah Schumacher

Fall 2019 Scenic Painting I’s No Brush Landscape Projects

Fall 2019’s No Brushes Landscape Project

No Brushes Landscape Project by Cody Chen

5’x7’ spray project. Using only pneumatic guns and spray misters. By Emma Brutman.

5’x7’ Spray Project. Done with pneumatic guns and misters. By Jia “Leo” Zengpeng.

5’x7’ painting with dry pigment. By Wendy Wu

Students digitally add another face to an oil painting in photoshop, and then use the photoshop image as a paint elevation to paint an imitation oil painting. This project is by Kathryn Blakeslee.

Fall 2019 Scenic Painting III’s Faux Finishing in Oil project.

Blacklight Project under normal light, by Kristen Nuhn.

Black Light project under blacklight, by Kristen Nuhn

Blacklight Project under normal Light by Haley Borodine.

Blacklight project under blacklight by Haley Borodine.

Perspective project painted on scene shop break room door. By Yvonne Tessman.

Thirty minutes to paint darks, thirty minutes to paint the lights, thirty minutes to adjust. By Yeaji Kim.

Thirty minutes to paint lights, thirty minutes to paint darks, thirty minutes to adjust. By Jose Diaz-Soto.

The Revolutionists

Designed by Will Sexton

Scenic Charge Kate Spademan

Revolutionists

Designed by Will Sexton

Scenic Charge Artist Kate Spademan

A crew of students working with me to paint the translucent sky drop for Beatrice and Benedict, designed by Regina Garcia.

Finish sky drop for Lyric Theatre’s Beatrice and Benedict, designed by Regina Garcia. Students and I laid out, starched, and painted it in five days.

Back wall for Polaroid Stories. Scenic Charge advisee, Yeaji Kim.

Student designed by Jose Diaz-Soto.

The back wall from Polaroid Stories under blacklight.

Scenic Charge advisee Yeaji Kim. Student designed by Jose Diaz-Soto.

Introductory icebreaker project in Intro to Scenic Design.

Collage of research and responses for Introduction to Scenic Design’s “Jabberwocky” project.

Prop Rendering for Introduction to Scenic Design’s Assassins design project. By Rae Melnik.

Model work from Introduction to Scenic Design’s True West design package.

Model work for Introduction to Scenic Design’s Assassins design package.

Model for Introduction to Scenic Design’s Assassins design package. By Dominick Rosales.

White Model for University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Lyric Theatre’s Street Scenes (postponed due to Covid-19). Student designed by advisee Kathryn Blakeslee.

Rough model for Spring 2020’s Introduction to Scenic Design’s True West design package. By Dominick Rosales.

Thumbnail from Spring 2020’s Introduction to Scenic Design’s True West design package, by Abbey Nettleton.

Thumbnail from Spring 2020’s Introduction to Scenic Design’s True West design package. By Blaine Fuson.