Jamie Clausius is both the resident Designer and Scenic Artist for backdrop designs at Tobins Lake Studios. Recently, she needed to create a generic cornfield backdrop design for their rental stock...

Gabriel Barrera has been an artist ever since he could remember, and now he’s the Charge Scenic Artist at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Wanting to share his artistic passion with others, Gabriel began...

Mikah Berky, the Assistant Scenic Charge at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, recently needed to paint some large backdrop panels out of china silk for their production of “The Wiz.” She needed to...

Scenic Artist Laura Scheving recently created a project that she simply described as her “Magic Translucent Drop.” It’s an excellent example of how to create vivid sunrise or sunset scenery that only...

Painting stained glass for the stage is always high on a scenic artist’s wish list of projects. Not only can they be very pretty, but they also give us a chance to flex our problem-solving muscles....

Thanks to our new partnership with The Guild of Scenic Artists, we’ll be sharing select stories from their members that you’ll also find inside their blog – The Scenic Route. Below is a story from...

Pantone 448C - The World's Ugliest Color In 2016, Pantone 448 C was declared as the world’s ugliest color. So ugly, in fact, an Australian research and marketing project covered cigarette packs in...

Guest Author: Angelique Powers A Founding Member of The Guild of Scenic Artists, Angelique Powers has an MFA in Scenic Art Design from the California Institute of the Arts and has been professionally...

I was about to start working on the University of Minnesota's Earthquakes In London at the Guthrie Theater's Dowling Studio, when I had a “scenic artist lottery winning moment.” My designer, Torry...