Hi all! This is my first post so I apologize if I sound like a complete newbie. I am involved in our middle school's drama club. For the past 4 years we use large pieces (70" high x 108" wide) of corogated cardboard for our scenery. We stand them up by folding them into thirds and zigzag them so they stand on their own. Cheesy, yes...but they work and look ok.....well at least until one of the kids kneels on them when painting and leaves knee compressions all over the cardboard.
Anyway, this year we are thinking about making a few flats covered in muslin. I have the information on making the flats and covering the flats. I'm still doing alot of searching on painting them. Using either scene paint or flat latex (which we have lots of becuase we use that on the cardboard) but, and here comes the newbie question. Once we are finished with the show, do we just paint over them for the next show or do we remove the muslin and recover them? If we paint over them can this be done a time or two and then they need to be recovered?
Apologizing in advance if this question is too obvious.
Sharon
Anyway, this year we are thinking about making a few flats covered in muslin. I have the information on making the flats and covering the flats. I'm still doing alot of searching on painting them. Using either scene paint or flat latex (which we have lots of becuase we use that on the cardboard) but, and here comes the newbie question. Once we are finished with the show, do we just paint over them for the next show or do we remove the muslin and recover them? If we paint over them can this be done a time or two and then they need to be recovered?
Apologizing in advance if this question is too obvious.
Sharon