Materials and Craft of the Scenic Model - Darwin Reid Payne - Paperback

This is the first full-length textbook devoted totally to the craft and materials involved in preparing one of the stage designer's most important presentations the scenic model. Though scenic models are not a new development in the theatreLeonardo da Vinci used them for the spectacles he was commissioned to designit has been only recently that they have all but superseded scenic sketches, prima­rily because the three-dimensional model more closely resembles the image realized on the actual stage. Materials and Craft of the Scenic Modelthus fills a distinct and major need for teaching the art and craftsmanship a designer must have to make scenic models. Through diagrams, sketches, and models, along with explications of the essential tools and materials re­quired, Payne defines and delineates the precise step-by-step procedures of sce­nic-model making: the basic prepara­tions of construction, the process of making the model, and the experimen­tal aspects of model making. Because designers must sometimes show their work by way of photographs, the author has included instructions on how a scenic model should be photographed.Payne, Darwin R. is the author of 'Materials and Craft of the Scenic Model - Darwin Reid Payne - Paperback' with ISBN 9780809307838 and ISBN 0809307839.