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Behind the scenes: sunset silk painting!
Nov. 22nd, 2008 04:17 pmWe're in tech for The Little Prince right now; i have some "behind the scenes" process shots to show how Costume Designer's Assistant Randy Handley and I did a seven-color pour-dye effect on 45 yards of China silk to create a sunset effect onstage.
I did an initial dyejob on the silk first to create a base color, over which we'd layer our other hues. I dyed half the silk a bright yellow, and the other half a soft pink. I chose these colors because they were the lightest values the designer wanted. I split it half and half because the sunset colors need to range from yellow through orange, red, pink, to purple. Since yellow and purple are opposites on the color wheel, they can't layer over one another without deadening the effect, so the yellow-ground silk has no purple colors involved, and the pink-ground silk has no yellows, to maintain a vivid intensity in our results.
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I did an initial dyejob on the silk first to create a base color, over which we'd layer our other hues. I dyed half the silk a bright yellow, and the other half a soft pink. I chose these colors because they were the lightest values the designer wanted. I split it half and half because the sunset colors need to range from yellow through orange, red, pink, to purple. Since yellow and purple are opposites on the color wheel, they can't layer over one another without deadening the effect, so the yellow-ground silk has no purple colors involved, and the pink-ground silk has no yellows, to maintain a vivid intensity in our results.
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