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labricoleuse) wrote2012-02-28 09:37 am
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Spray technique workshop with Margaret Peot!
We are currently hosting a short residency with renowned Broadway costume painter Margaret Peot in tandem with the release of her new book, The Successful Artist's Career Guide: Finding your Way in the Business of Art. In addition to the freelancer's workshop I announced in a prior post, she is also conducting workshops and classes with our graduate and undergraduate students yesterday and today here on campus.
Yesterday morning, she led our costume production MFA candidates in a specialized advanced workshop exploring aerosol and airbrush techniques using acid dyes on nylon spandex and silk fabrics. This is not a workshop she can do most places, because it requires students who are respirator-fit-tested due to the type of airborne dyestuff the techniques create, but because we have a respirator program in place here, we could host it! Exciting!
3rd year grads Claire Fleming (left) and Kaitlin Fara (center) listen to Margaret (right) discuss paint samples from her career at Parsons-Meares.
Airbrush, acid dyes mixed into a 50/50 vinegar/water solution,
Preval sprayers, and pitchers of gum thickener for creating paints.
We purchased these supplies from Aljo Dyes.
Margaret demonstrates several masking techniques with an airbrush on spandex.
Grad students experimenting with airbrush and Preval sprayer techniques.
Left: Candy McClernan (2nd year), Leah Pelz (1st year), Claire Fleming (3rd year)
Two types of mesh fabric through which we sprayed to create layers and depth of color.
We also used lace, hand-cut acetate stencils, and even a couple of ostrich plumes to spray through!
Margaret discussed ripping holes in a very regular netting
to break up the uniformity of its spray pattern for more organic looks.
After the paint session, Adrienne Corral and i wrapped the silk sample pieces in newsprint for steam setting.
Then we turned my 60-gal dye vat into a steam chamber and steamed them for 90 minutes.
This section of Claire Fleming's sample shows the effects created spraying through different mesh patterns.
Kaitlin Fara sprayed over an acetate gear-shaped mask, then used a paintbrush to brush the excess from the surface of the stencil to make the second effect you see at right.
This section of Adrienne Corral's samples illustrates the technique of frottage with an ostrich plume. First she sprayed the plume with green for a masked effect (at left), then flipped the plume to "stamp" some of the green at the same time that she oversprayed with the blue (at right).
Today we're about to have a workshop in which Margaret illustrates non-aerosol paint applications on a range of fabrics, for not only our grad students but also several undergraduates and those on staff with PlayMakers in our and other departments (props, our scenic painter, etc).
More pics and info on Margaret's classes, and even my very first-ever autographed book giveaway coming soon! And, if you are interested in having Margaret come do a session at your school, organization, or theatre, you can contact her via her website.
Yesterday morning, she led our costume production MFA candidates in a specialized advanced workshop exploring aerosol and airbrush techniques using acid dyes on nylon spandex and silk fabrics. This is not a workshop she can do most places, because it requires students who are respirator-fit-tested due to the type of airborne dyestuff the techniques create, but because we have a respirator program in place here, we could host it! Exciting!
3rd year grads Claire Fleming (left) and Kaitlin Fara (center) listen to Margaret (right) discuss paint samples from her career at Parsons-Meares.
Airbrush, acid dyes mixed into a 50/50 vinegar/water solution,
Preval sprayers, and pitchers of gum thickener for creating paints.
We purchased these supplies from Aljo Dyes.
Margaret demonstrates several masking techniques with an airbrush on spandex.
Grad students experimenting with airbrush and Preval sprayer techniques.
Left: Candy McClernan (2nd year), Leah Pelz (1st year), Claire Fleming (3rd year)
Two types of mesh fabric through which we sprayed to create layers and depth of color.
We also used lace, hand-cut acetate stencils, and even a couple of ostrich plumes to spray through!
Margaret discussed ripping holes in a very regular netting
to break up the uniformity of its spray pattern for more organic looks.
After the paint session, Adrienne Corral and i wrapped the silk sample pieces in newsprint for steam setting.
Then we turned my 60-gal dye vat into a steam chamber and steamed them for 90 minutes.
This section of Claire Fleming's sample shows the effects created spraying through different mesh patterns.
Kaitlin Fara sprayed over an acetate gear-shaped mask, then used a paintbrush to brush the excess from the surface of the stencil to make the second effect you see at right.
This section of Adrienne Corral's samples illustrates the technique of frottage with an ostrich plume. First she sprayed the plume with green for a masked effect (at left), then flipped the plume to "stamp" some of the green at the same time that she oversprayed with the blue (at right).
Today we're about to have a workshop in which Margaret illustrates non-aerosol paint applications on a range of fabrics, for not only our grad students but also several undergraduates and those on staff with PlayMakers in our and other departments (props, our scenic painter, etc).
More pics and info on Margaret's classes, and even my very first-ever autographed book giveaway coming soon! And, if you are interested in having Margaret come do a session at your school, organization, or theatre, you can contact her via her website.