![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Behind the scenes of Glass Menagerie!
Jan. 15th, 2009 08:01 pmI have a couple of short projects to share for one of our two rep shows, Glass Menagerie.
Glass Menagerie created the genre of the memory play, they say, and our costume designer, Jan Chambers, wanted the costumes to embody the means by which we often embellish our recollections of things. Her concept for this was hand-tinted antique photos, how people used to paint into black-and-white photos to create these gentle washes of color. If you've seen these kinds of photos, they have a weird ethereal quality, sometimes with odd splashes of color that have strange value levels. Here's a link to an example.
A lot of this is going to be suggested in color choices, but in the case of one costume item--a plaid boucle coat with velvet collar and cuffs--we actually painted onto the fabric itself.
( Read more... )
Glass Menagerie created the genre of the memory play, they say, and our costume designer, Jan Chambers, wanted the costumes to embody the means by which we often embellish our recollections of things. Her concept for this was hand-tinted antique photos, how people used to paint into black-and-white photos to create these gentle washes of color. If you've seen these kinds of photos, they have a weird ethereal quality, sometimes with odd splashes of color that have strange value levels. Here's a link to an example.
A lot of this is going to be suggested in color choices, but in the case of one costume item--a plaid boucle coat with velvet collar and cuffs--we actually painted onto the fabric itself.
( Read more... )
