SCENERY PAINTING
FOR THE AMATEUR MUSICAL THEATRE and PANTOMIME |
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ALICE IN WONDERLAND - page one |
Designed and painted by Brian Willis
Performed by "Merlins", Childrens' Theatre, Grimsby 2006
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This group travel around Primary Schools in England giving
magic shows. They commissioned me to paint this small backcloth as part
of a themed Alice in Wonderland illusion entertainment. The brief was 'bright
and cheerful with a sense of depth'. They asked that there should be no
specific reference to the 'Alice in W' story as all this is done with props
etc in their show. (Apart, that is, from the signpost and large toadstools.) |
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Size of canvas - 10 feet wide by nine feet high. Photo
taken in workshop with natural top light. All the toadstools are painted
over with "invisible blue" which will shine under Ultra Violet lights.
I decided to outline the forground elements with black to give the painting
a child's book illustration look. |
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