A truck (see bottoms) with hinged flats which are open like wings. This piece is 19 feet long by 8 feet high. Photo taken under fluorescent light with some daylight from the left. Paint tin in foreground for scale. Once I had painted the 'beams' on the two outermost flats, I cut out the voids with a jigsaw so that the backcloth will show through. Above the paint tin is a three dimensional piece of "wall". But apart from that everything else is painted on the flat plane. Painted 'reflected light' (especially from the "candle") and sunshine "shadows" help the 3D impression. Foliage is actually there to hide the supporting timber struts at the back. The white patch along the top of this photo I put in with a graphics program to hide the actual real beams of this workshop which would confuse. This photo was taken at an angle as this is how the truck will be placed on stage. The eyeline (Horizon line) is one foot off the ground i.e. audience eyeline. Of the five upright "beams" four are there to hide the joins where the flats hinge.

There's still a skirt of boards to go around the bottom of the truck to hide the gap. This will be done in the theatre.