Thanks! > I posted this to the list back in June 1999. > It may help you out. > > Simple Background manufacture: Buy some large pieces of muslin, > and sew them together to make as large a background as you want. > Our studio has 2 huge ones that must be over 20 x 20 feet each. > Buy a couple of gallons of latex paint in colours you think > might be apprpriate to your needs. For portraiture, I prefer > warm neutrals. (An oxymoron, I am sure). You can go fairly dark, > but again, try to stay in a neutral density range as well. Mix a > liter of the paint that you want as the base colourwith a liter > of water (or thereabouts, you want it fairly thin) and paint the > entire background. We layed the fabric out on a lawn for this > (you might want to use someone elses lawn)Quickly take a > squeeze bottle (we used a well rinsed dish detergent bottle) > with some of the other paint, and perhaps one with a mixture of > the two colours, and spray beads of paint evenly onto the > background. Then take a big step back in time, remember > "tye-dying"? What you want to do, is to fold the thing up and > twist it for all your worth. This is definitely a 2 person job, > and expect to get messy. Unroll the background and check your > work. You may want more paint here and there. Our backgrounds > cost us the princely sum of $200.00 each, most of that was for > the muslin, which we paid premium for to get 9 foot widths. > > William Robb
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