Rosco’s Jenny Knott and Scenic Artist and Historian, Wendy Waszut-Barrett, taught a scenic painting workshop at CITT that merged historical scene painting techniques with modern materials.
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Defuse The Glitter Bomb! How To Create Sparkly Costumes Without The Glittery Fallout
Costume Artist, Denise Wallace-Spriggs, describes how to use Rosco CrystalGel to firmly attach glitter to costumes. The results are durable, flexible and sparkly!
How To Paint Stunning, Realistic Stained Glass
Scenic Artist Rachel Reynolds shares her recipes and techniques for creating stained glass window scenery using plexiglass and Rosco CrystalGel and Supersaturated Scenic Paints.
How To Create Realistic Faux Grass For Your Set
Scenic artist Rachael Claxton shares her favorite new technique for creating a realistic lawn on stage.
Recipes For Creating Delectable (Fake) Food
Props artisan Karestin Harrison shares two of her favorite recipes for creating fake food that can be used in theatre or film/video productions.
Prime and Smooth Props and Costumes with FlexBond
Wonderful examples that showcase how Rosco FlexBond works as a primer to smooth out Worbla – a useful thermoplastic for costume and prop design.
Practical Advice For Building Props That Will Live Long And Prosper
Kara Meche from Techland Houston made a lightweight, durable replica of the Starship Enterprise for William Shatner to sign using foam, FlexBond and Off Broadway paints. The signed ship will be displayed in Techland Houston’s showroom for years to come.
It’s Our 5th Blogoversary
We’re Celebrating With Five Days of Prizes For You!
We want to say thank you to all of our loyal Spectrum readers! To celebrate five wonderful years of blog posts filled with color, Rosco-history, the power of light and life behind-the-scenes – we are having a contest that features some of our posts throughout the years and rewards you, our gracious readers, for tuning-in…
Top-5 Spectrum Posts of 2012
As 2012 comes to an end, we decided to take a look at our top five Spectrum posts of the year. Our results might not be as humourously tongue-in-cheek as David Letterman’s, but they were interesting and diverse enough that we thought it was worth sharing. #5 Rosco myColor: Prepare to Get Your Color On!…
Creating Three-Dimensional Foliage Scenery = The Most Fun You’ll Ever Have
Peter Miller, Theatre Design Department Faculty at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts, had an inspired revelation at USITT in 2011. He noticed that many of the set designs that required foliage included uninspired, one-dimensional tree-scape drops. So, Peter determined to create a three-dimensional scenic treatment that would envelop the audience into the…