PAUL LASAINE: Blog: NY Skyline Backdrop

Saturday, April 9, 2011

NY Skyline Backdrop

Last month, my daughter was in the musical at her elementary school. Due to the school's proximity to several TV and film studios, many of the kids have parents in "the biz". Who am I kidding?!? Many of the kids are in "the biz".

Anyway, not to be out done, here's the backdrop I did for this year's show, Broadway Bound...a musical review that follows three groups of kids, competing to win a trip to Broadway.

I painted it in Photoshop. Then we printed it 10' x 16' (that's about 3m x 5m, for you metric people), and hung it on stage. One of the other parents works at an industrial printing facility. They've got one printer that can print 16' across!

Ahh, the interesting things you get to do when you're a parent.

26 comments:

Szabó Jenő said...: wow. it looks great for metric eyes.; April 9, 2011 at 8:17 AM
Logan Pearsall said...: really beautiful!; April 9, 2011 at 11:30 AM
Adam said...: It's nice to see that you can apply artistic skills from your career into parenting. :D

Also 16-foot printers sound awesome; April 9, 2011 at 12:10 PM
Patrick Désilets said...: WOW. That is gorgeous.; April 9, 2011 at 1:17 PM
Roy Santua said...: Exactly feel your joy being a parent! Good to see you again last week, Paul.; April 9, 2011 at 5:10 PM
SHOo said...: HA! You kill me every time! That's beautiful!; April 10, 2011 at 2:02 AM
Vanessa said...: I really love the atmosphere of the painting ! Nice work :); April 11, 2011 at 1:15 AM
Ruby Chen said...: what a gorgeous piece ;D; April 12, 2011 at 11:15 AM
Andrea Pucci said...: It'so beautiful!; April 15, 2011 at 12:42 AM
Unknown said...: Awww so nice! If I had a kid I would love this as a wallpaper on his/her sleeping room!; April 16, 2011 at 4:24 PM
roque said...: Lush colors and great atmosphere. You make it look easy.; April 19, 2011 at 3:51 PM
Bruno Hamzagic said...: simple amazing!; April 23, 2011 at 7:37 AM
Jason Scheier said...: great stuff as usual Paul! Love the simple graphic nature~ I remember you telling me about this backdrop! ;); April 27, 2011 at 5:36 PM
Dilanka Samaratunga said...: Beautiful Work!; April 27, 2011 at 6:43 PM
Charis said...: Love it. I look to your blog often for inspiration because you have such a mastery of color, atmosphere, and edge control. Keep up the good work an thank you for sharing!; May 1, 2011 at 1:46 AM
Boris Z comme ZORRO said...: I love it!!! Amazing as always; May 1, 2011 at 1:56 PM
Richard Vallerand said...: Very nice design... must've been quite something as a backdrop on stage.; May 31, 2011 at 7:49 AM
Anonymous said...: Well done! :) I would love to see how the backdrop looks on stage with the actors all in front of it. Very cool.; July 5, 2011 at 7:21 PM
iscary said...: I love thee colors in this!; July 22, 2011 at 5:15 PM
Gracia said...: Beautiful colurs and style! love it!! :) I bet it looked great in such a large print!! :D; August 18, 2011 at 12:10 PM
luca said...: paul, i want you to know that if you publish a book with your art, I'll buy at least two copies! ;); October 27, 2011 at 3:01 AM
Clipping Path Service said...: Thats cool!
Can you share your technique.... how to do that in Photoshop????; March 27, 2015 at 4:27 AM
Kari J.Everhart said...: Fascinating work.I really love the design and the contrasts between dark and light.Please tell me how do you do this using Photoshop?; June 10, 2015 at 9:38 PM
Shahana Akter said...: Excellent Work!!! You are brilliantly done.I like it very much.; June 10, 2015 at 9:44 PM
Clipping path said...: This is extremely beautiful!! Very good work. Everything is very interesting to learn and easy to understood. Thank you for giving information.; June 17, 2015 at 2:30 AM
Clipping Path Service said...: It was amazing love you blog.; July 4, 2015 at 12:00 PM