Through this activity, I learned to use the miter saw and the table saw. I also learned a variety of different painting techniques such as texturing and scumbling that I hadn’t known about previously. The most interesting thing that I’ve noticed is that sometimes when you make a mistake in your flat, you would panic, but actually if you take a step back, the mistake will barely be noticeable. Since the flat is going to be a scenic piece, the audience probably won’t pay too much attention to the details of the flat which is why mistakes can be made while painting, making the process fun and meaningful.

SCUMBLING

SCUMBLING (finished)

 

LINING 

LINING (finished)

SHADOWS

HIGHLIGHTS

 HIGHLIGHTS AND SHADOWS (finished)

TEXTURING

SPATTERING

Finished product :

To start off, we scumbled the flat and added three different colors to it. It looked really wrong at first but once we did our lining, it looked normal. We did the lining with gray and proceeded to do the highlights with white and shadows with a darker gray. Since the light was going to hit our flat from the top right corner, all our shadows were on the bottom left of our bricks. After highlighting and adding our shadows, we added a watered-down gray to create more dimension in our flat. This technique is called texturing.  Finally, we spattered paint onto our flat to make the flat look even more realistic.