The Dance Factory of Morganton contacted me about providing backdrops for a Christmas program. To fit their needs and budget, I designed three 15′ x 20′ backgrounds, which we hand painted on seamed canvas.
A local playwright (Freddy Bradburn) wrote a bit in a folk tale performance that included a decapitated head, placed on a pike at the edge of town as a warning to others, that comes to life, greets its former traveling companions, and joins them in a song. And it needed to look like the actor …
Wrapping vector flame patterns across a golf cart hood with a uniform “blown-back” look required a map of the changing angles, so we wrapped the nose in a giant sheet of paper and made one. Working carefully over the pattern, we built the flames from both the center out and the edge in, aiming for …