Where is the best place to look for buildings or pictures of buildings to use in a backdrop. I have been pondering the backdrop issue for sometime on what type of paint to use for the sky and what to use for the clouds. As i am not very good at painting i would like to find out some painting ideals from some other's on what type of paint to use and what is the best to paint this on. I have about 6 or 7 sheets of elmer's foam board that i can use and i was wondering if that would be good.Any ideals would help and i would apprecate your comments.
Backdrops
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Starman, if you can print your backdrop own look here. morguefile.com Where photo reference lives.
All kinds of pictures.
Loren
All kinds of pictures.
Loren
Starman, are you trying to use paint to edit the pictures?
Nevermind, just figured out what you ment.
Loren
Nevermind, just figured out what you ment.
Loren
Starman,
I went to the Nomad linked to, but I don't know what images you downloaded. Are they black and white images that you want to color?
Are you doing a single building on each piece of foam core? Any paper image can be put on foamcore witht he same sort of glue you would use to mat a photograph. I would reccomend using one building per foam core piece with the foamcore cut to fit the building's outline. That way, you get more depth to your backdrop. You could take a photograph of the sky where you live on a nice cloudy day when the sky looks like you want your backdrop to look and then have the sky enlarged to poster size for your sky backdrop behind your buildings. If you are doing a city backdrop, with a number of buildings crowded together, the sky doesn't even need to come down to the horizon because the buildings will hide the horizon. A thin coat of flat finish sprayed over the buildings in the back will give a further look of depth to the scene. Paint the sides of the foam core a flat black or flat brown to make the sides of the foamcore disappear.
I went to the Nomad linked to, but I don't know what images you downloaded. Are they black and white images that you want to color?
Are you doing a single building on each piece of foam core? Any paper image can be put on foamcore witht he same sort of glue you would use to mat a photograph. I would reccomend using one building per foam core piece with the foamcore cut to fit the building's outline. That way, you get more depth to your backdrop. You could take a photograph of the sky where you live on a nice cloudy day when the sky looks like you want your backdrop to look and then have the sky enlarged to poster size for your sky backdrop behind your buildings. If you are doing a city backdrop, with a number of buildings crowded together, the sky doesn't even need to come down to the horizon because the buildings will hide the horizon. A thin coat of flat finish sprayed over the buildings in the back will give a further look of depth to the scene. Paint the sides of the foam core a flat black or flat brown to make the sides of the foamcore disappear.