Main Stage

Young Frankenstein

Young Frankenstein, 2013 Ogunquit Playhouse. Directed by: JEFF WHITING. Designed by: ROBIN WAGNER.

Lighting Design by: RICHARD LATTA.

This set was rented. Some of the set pieces were too large to fit on our stage. When this happens we do some supplemental building. This Cave unit is an example of what we do to recreate an original design on a smaller scale to fit our stage.

The Barn Backwall

White Christmas, 2015 The Music Hall, produced by The Ogunquit Playhouse. Directed by JAYME MCDANIEL. Designed by ANNA LOUIZOS.

This set was half rented and half supplementally built. Our shop made smaller versions of the original design of The barn wall as well as two other set pieces to fit our space. This was a 9 step painted process by one person (myself) in a period of 5 days. The wall was 21'X36'.

Sky Drop

Sister Act, 2015 Ogunquit Playhouse. Directed by STEVEN BECKLER. Designed by ADAM KOCH. Lighting Design by: RICHARD LATTA.

This drop was painted by 2 painters, myself and my assistant Tamsen Warner in 2 days. Day one was strech, starch, and cartoon the drop. Day two was masking and painting.

Please click on images for larger slide shows.

Background Masking of bogus paper and sawdust has been used to protect our clouds and our sky color has been sprayed in.	Sky Making and sawdust has been removed revealing our background color.
Round two A second round of sawdust is used to cover up our background color and protect where we want our brightest white. Time to spray our brightest colors.	Mid tones Now that our lightest colors have been added, we start to layer in our mid tones.
Darks Layers of color from light to dark have now been sprayed in with p-50's.	Clean up! My assistant and I are now removing the sawdust to reveal our raw muslin which will be our brightest white.
Almost done	Top view
Rendering Our final colors have been added to sharpen our darkest sections and make our shadows recede and our highlights pop.	Vignette A final navy spray has been added.
Completed Our drop is finished and now in space.

The Frame The Cave's frame was built by two carpenters in a day or so. After they finished it went to the paint shop.	Attaching the Foam Attaching the foam, carving, and painting the cave unit was a two person job. My assistant (KATHLEEN MORIARTY) would cut pieces down to size as I was adhering pieces in place. This way we did not have to stop and could keep going until finished.
The Front	The Escape Stairs
The Back	Piecing It Together
Carve Your Heart Out	Close Up
Inside The Cave	Attaching The Top
Halfway Through Carving	Allie Wants To Play Too....
Carving Almost Complete At this point we trimmed, cleaned up edges, and started to prep for Flexbond and base coat.	Primer
Primer	Primer
Stone treatment We based, sponged, and spattered through the next few steps.	Almost done Almost ready to age and shadow.
Shadow time Finished product.	Into The Cave
The Front	The Seat
The Escape Stairs	Going Up
With The Railing	On Stage This piece was made for Young Frankenstein. The original set piece did not come with the set. Our carpenters spent a day building the frame, and we spent 2 days carving and painting. This was our finished product.
Deck Treatment Deck treatment for Young Frankenstein. This took two painters 6 hours (approximately 1,300 sq ft) to do one base coat, two sponged colors, 3 spatters, and 1 coat of poly.

Base coat After the primer, a cool base coat is layed in to show through washes.	Cartooning My husband is wonderful and is helping me cartoon The Barn Backwall.
Washes The first layer is a series of 4 warm washes over the cool basecoat.	Up close The washes up close.
Full Barn This image shows the scale of the full barn.	Navy glaze A thin navy glaze is the next step.
Spatter Here is a close up of the two spatters (a navy and a raw umber) to tie in the treatment.	Lining Here you can see the difference between what has and has not been lined yet.
Shadows and highlights	Final product

Young Frankenstein

The Barn Backwall

Sky Drop

MAIN STAGE

Background

Masking of bogus paper and sawdust has been used to protect our clouds and our sky color has been sprayed in.

Sky

Making and sawdust has been removed revealing our background color.

Round two

A second round of sawdust is used to cover up our background color and protect where we want our brightest white. Time to spray our brightest colors.

Mid tones

Now that our lightest colors have been added, we start to layer in our mid tones.

Darks

Layers of color from light to dark have now been sprayed in with p-50's.

Clean up!

My assistant and I are now removing the sawdust to reveal our raw muslin which will be our brightest white.

Almost done

Top view

Rendering

Our final colors have been added to sharpen our darkest sections and make our shadows recede and our highlights pop.

Vignette

A final navy spray has been added.

Completed

Our drop is finished and now in space.

The Frame

The Cave's frame was built by two carpenters in a day or so. After they finished it went to the paint shop.

Attaching the Foam

Attaching the foam, carving, and painting the cave unit was a two person job. My assistant (KATHLEEN MORIARTY) would cut pieces down to size as I was adhering pieces in place. This way we did not have to stop and could keep going until finished.

The Front

The Escape Stairs

The Back

Piecing It Together

Carve Your Heart Out

Close Up

Inside The Cave

Attaching The Top

Halfway Through Carving

Allie Wants To Play Too....

Carving Almost Complete

At this point we trimmed, cleaned up edges, and started to prep for Flexbond and base coat.

Primer

Primer

Primer

Stone treatment

We based, sponged, and spattered through the next few steps.

Almost done

Almost ready to age and shadow.

Shadow time

Finished product.

Into The Cave

The Front

The Seat

The Escape Stairs

Going Up

With The Railing

On Stage

This piece was made for Young Frankenstein. The original set piece did not come with the set. Our carpenters spent a day building the frame, and we spent 2 days carving and painting. This was our finished product.

Deck Treatment

Deck treatment for Young Frankenstein. This took two painters 6 hours (approximately 1,300 sq ft) to do one base coat, two sponged colors, 3 spatters, and 1 coat of poly.

Base coat

After the primer, a cool base coat is layed in to show through washes.

Cartooning

My husband is wonderful and is helping me cartoon The Barn Backwall.

Washes

The first layer is a series of 4 warm washes over the cool basecoat.

Up close

The washes up close.

Full Barn

This image shows the scale of the full barn.

Navy glaze

A thin navy glaze is the next step.

Spatter

Here is a close up of the two spatters (a navy and a raw umber) to tie in the treatment.

Lining

Here you can see the difference between what has and has not been lined yet.

Shadows and highlights

Final product

CD