I thought to just use one shade of blueish-white paint for the backdrop. Not being an artist, I don’t really want to fiddle w/ different shades of paint. I think that backdrops shouldn’t focus attention away from the operations, but do want to give the imrpession of 3-D. Here are my questions:
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Should I get latex flat paint?
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How to easily convey hills or the Appal. mountains? I want to depict a spring day in Soutern VA. Anyone who is from, or visited there, knows it gets somewhat hazy. If that is easy to do, great. Otherwise, I can just stick w/ the one shade of light blue.
Ideally, I want to do the backdrop once and move onto other things!
Cheers,
Lee
Flat house paint works fine. Those 2oz bottles of craft paint are good for the scenery too.
http://cs.trains.com/forums/1252782/ShowPost.aspx
This thread might give you some ideas. Jarrell did a fantastic job on his.
Lee,
Check out theses pictures:
http://backdropwarehouse.com/SkEastMtHillsGrp.htm#137C
The top picture in the group is taken from Skyline drive in Virgina. Others are from Cades Cove in Tennessee a bit further south but they all fit together well and will give you a feel for what you are wanting. A “smokey” outline for the hills in the distance is all you need.
Light blue for the sky; blue-gray for distant hills; second coat closer hills with blue-green for trees.
- Go to the craft store and pick up a number of the two oz. bottles of (flat) acrylic hobby paints in the colors that you think are close.
- Pour some in a dish and thin a little with water.
- Test paint on a scrap of whatever.
- Paint the hills using “splotches” - not strokes. That is dab the paint on not brush it smooth.
- Try again until you get the effect you want.
If you have a large area to cover then you can get the paint store to custom mix a quart to the final colors you choose.
Good luck,
-John