Sean

For Polovtsian Dances, designer Joe Tilford rendered a digitally distorted impasto painting on scrim with a range of hues including fluorescent red. After a sampling everything I could think of, I found that to get this specific vibrancy of red on scrim I had to use Supersat Brilliant Red, with dye layered on the peaks. The rest is all Supersats and Iddings. A header also appeared during the piece with primitive ink drawings of symbols and figures that echoed the choreography. The ink had a very deliberate bleed pattern to add to the effect of movement, so, over a base of Off Broadway paints, flat Clear Acrylic was applied horizontally with foam rollers I cut into tiger stripe-like patterns. Iddings black diluted with water and India Ink could then be brushed on and given a squirt with a sprayer to jumpstart the bleeding. Scenic Artists pictured: Sean Cox, Colleen Murray, Alexa Busnot, Heather Collins, Jessie Kieffer.