This is the creation of a complex 'mosaic' stage floor for the Shaw Festival's production of Bernard Shaw's 'The Philanderer' designed by Sue Le Page.
The pattern was drawn as a quarter cartoon on paper and pounced out.
The pattern was repeated on the giant circle and inked in.
Textured rollers were used to give the impression of the mosaic tiles.
The colours were all Rosco paints on a Rosco Black background. The final floor finish was satin.

Gate: step one: 3 colour scumble: raw sienna, paynes grey (mixed with white), light brown - Step two: hand free drawn grout line with a piece of wood (light grey) - Step three: raw umber shadow around the stones (mix of raw umber/water/glaze) - Step four: darker grey around stones to accentuate shadow - Step five: spatter brown, cream beige, black all around the gate - Step 6: mix black with water and glaze and sponge around the edges and on random stones to create relief and weathered stones.

After the scenic shop gave me the railing pieces, we outlined where the face on the figures goes with pencil. After that I painted the whole thing a base golden yellow color. Then I went in and coated the golden parts in metallic gold paint. After that I base coated the silver portions with a charcoal gray and went in and covered those in silver metallic paint. After that was the red and blue bits. The entire process took the better portion of a workday because of the intricacy of the colors and the lack of a stencil for some of the parts.

We wanted to create a slightly textured resist to create raised, lighter grain on the wood for our boardwalk platforms, painted on masonite. We primed the masonite with backpaint, and then based the boards with a three color wet blend of Rosco Off Broadway colors mixed with white. To create the resist, we used Rosco Flat Acrylic right out of the can. We applied the Flat thickly with a brush, and used a cut squeege and a wood rocking tool to create the raised grain.

For our production of Grease we could not use a real car for Greased Lightnin' so we built our own.
1. we built a 3'x7' platform and placed casters on the bottom.
2. we constructed the sides of the car with 3/4"plywood and attached to the platform.
3. We covered the top of the car and constructed the engine block out of 1/4" ply.
4. We attached 2 12v headlights to the front of the car.
5. We placed a woodbench inside of the car and cut out a door on the passenger side.

This production required a dead black swan that was to be dragged through the house and onto the stage by its neck. I started by carving the head from pink insulation foam. For strength, I covered the beak with gauze soaked with Off-Broadway paint. The neck was made from a piece of aircraft cable wrapped in pipe insulation and then packing foam, all adhered with FlexBond and tape. The entire neck and head was then coated with Foamcoat and then the beak was sanded and painted with Off-Broadway paint. I carved out eye sockets and inserted black marbles for eyes.

On a 3000 square foot CNC routed walkway, we sculpted rough and cracked stones from a mixture of sand, powdered joint compound, elastomeric, and FlexBond. At our shop in New Jersey, we painted the sculpted stones with glazes of Off Broadway and shellac. At the Park Avenue Armory, our team placed sculpted wire forms and patches of pre-painted grass onto a carpeted 20,000 square foot area, and sprayed it all down in one overnight call with a custom-colored cellulose spray insulation material called K13.

We wanted to create the colors of light on a unit set that encompassed both interior (warm) and exterior (cool) locations. For the wood grained interior we primarily used Raw Sienna, Burnt Umber and Burnt Sienna. For the porch and pump we combined Paynes Grey, Navy and White to create a weathered effect. For the pump, we created a rusted effect using Burnt Sienna and Black with some areas glazed with Clear Gloss.

We wanted to create the colors of light on a unit set that encompassed both interior (warm) and exterior (cool) locations. For the wood grained interior we primarily used Raw Sienna, Burnt Umber and Burnt Sienna. For the porch and pump we combined Paynes Grey, Navy and White to create a weathered effect. For the pump, we created a rusted effect using Burnt Sienna and Black with some areas glazed with Clear Gloss.

Sprayed various colors in different concentrations with water and cat litter to blend. Then covered the whole floor with a warm and cool brown spray