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Scenic Painting Toolkit: What you’ll need before put-in
*Emulsion paint:* Your main floor/flat basecoat, plus some other commonly-occurring colours in your set. It’s always good to have some stock white and black emulsion cans around for mixing.
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These you can get at yer standard art shop (try A&C, central), but are pretty expensive and should not be trusted to \[the\] uncaring hands \[of actors\]. They are, however, the best for stippling because they already come with a lumpy surface -- cheap kitchen sponges have flat surfaces, and so need some violent abuse with scissors before they can be properly used to stipple. Art sponges are also a zillion times quicker than paintbrush stippling. They are best used for the first “base stipple coats” (step 4 as described above) and overall texture, as they create wide, spaced out dots and cover a large area. Depending on the size of your surface, they might be too big and wide-spaced to do detailed texture, features or shading. |
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