Design Diary: Set Design Archive

Here is a collection of earlier blog posts on
Theater Set Design, arranged by design phase or topic:

(Posts repeat under multiple topics. Just to confuse you, several early blog posts were titled "Set Designer's Day")

2D and 3D

A New Leaf Turned
Wear Your Coat to See David Bates Even if It's Hot

ACTORS
Characters
Big Tony

AGING (a set)
Opening Night

ALICE THROUGH THE PROSCENIUM (my how-to scenic design book)
Snippet Central (excerpts)
Book Time!
Pulp-o-mizer!
Kindle Editions
Siege - Days 23 and 24
Siege - Days 31, 32, 33, and 34

ALICE THROUGH THE PROSCENIUM 2nd EDITION

The Book is Back!

ANIMALS
Scenic Zoology
Siege - Days 23 and 24

ANIMATION
Animated Set Design

APOCALYPSE

Quick! Catch It On Stage

Design Diary: Catching Up A Little

APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM at STAGE WEST THEATRE

The Book is Back!

Oops - It's Been How Long?

Where Did the Spring Go? Poof!

A Design Charrette

Nice News Article

ART
Art Break
Art as Set Dressing
Art Museum Visits
Conversations
Wear Your Coat to See David Bates Even if It's Hot
Forbidden Sketching
Color War!
After Charlottesville
Siege - Days 15&16 Or, April Fools!

ARTS FUNDING (and Supporting Theatre)
Million Muppet March
Woohoo! Arts Funding
Starting the New Year Right
Kickstarter is Kickin'!
Put Us in the Dog House!
Woohoo! NEA Grant to Kitchen Dog
Put Us in the Dog House
Update on the Dog House Challenge
New Year's, New Fun Stuff to Do
Producing on Broadway
A New Dog House!
Inauguration Day
Please Write Your Senator...
Up is Down, Black is White
Theater for All!
Dogged
Threats
Two Things

AUDIENCE REACTION
Gappiness in Blogging

AWARDS
Shout-Out!
Nice News
Critics' Forum Awards
Embarrassing Post
Vicarious Tony Thrill
The Pritzker Prize and Fairness
Pen Award Winner!
Successful Smearing
Your Own Awards
Please Forgive a Little Back-Patting
News Break
I Needed the Laugh
Big Tony

AXONOMETRIC DRAWING
Starting Construction Drawings
First Steps...

BAMBOO (real)
Not a Review: Fly!

BIOS
Writing the Bio
Most Impressive Bio

BLOCKING
So Much Going On
Theatrical Sketches (Stanislavski)

BOOKS (as set dressing)
Finishing Touches
News Break

BOOKS (as, you know, books)

A Past How-To on Set Building

Well, That was... Exciting?
(What to) Coloring Book
Building With Books
Color Junkie
Siege - Day 2
Siege - Day 5
Siege - Days 26 and 27
Siege - Days 31, 32, 33, and 34

BRAINSTORMING
Paper Rules!

BRICK (faux)
Set Designer's Day (Brick)
Theater Design Catch-Up Day!
Siege - Days 31, 32, 33, and 34

BROADWAY (On and Off)
Matilda on Broadway
Back From NYC (Matilda)
Vicarious Tony Thrill (Matilda)

Scenic Master Class Speaker: Rob Howell
Scenic Masterclass Speaker: David Gallo and Ben Heller
Scenic Masterclass Speaker: Anna Louizos
Scenic Masterclass Speaker: Donald Holder
Greening the Stage
A New York Minute

BUDGETS and LIMITATIONS
Ruth Photo
Embarrassing Post
Not a Review: The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity
Not a Review: The Odd Couple
Scenic Masterclass Speaker: Anna Louizos

BUILD
Build
Today's Lesson
Ha!
Set Designer's Day (Tree)
Set Designer's Day (Brick)
Fall in the Pool
Frequency Build
Weeding
Set Designer's Weekend
Low or High Tech
High and Low Tech - Part II
Too Tired to Write Much
Sign How-To
A Grab Bag
Painting Slats
Back to the Land of the Living...
Simultaneity
Progress Pic
This n' That
Tweaky, Tweaky
Load-In
Short Builds
Cursed Carpentry
Just Floatin' Along
Sitting and Looking
Greening the Stage
Crunch-Time (#2 a recurring theme!)
Scenic Zoology
Hair Cuts for Radio and Other Weird Things
Craftsmanship
Loading In and Up
Dogged
Progress
How'd That Turn Out?

CAD (Computer Aided Drawing and Design also computer games)
Monsterpiece Theater
A Peek into the Past
Eat Cake!
Catch Up
Paper Rules!
More Coolo NASA Travel Posters (computer-built postcards)

CHANGES
Changes
Scramble
Aurghhh!
So Much Going On
Rethinking a Design
Further Adventures of a Plan
Living Playwrights
A Grab Bag
Some Days...
Variations
Yet More Variations
Tweaky, Tweaky
Details, Details, Details
Scenic Master Class Speaker: Rob Howell (between venues)
Eras End
A French Trend
Portable Hamlet
Dogged

CHARRETTE

Oops - It's Been How Long?

A Design Charrette

CHILDREN'S THEATER
Back to the Land of the Living...
Set Design From Scratch
A French Trend
Quick! One More Show!

CLASS
High Brow? or Low Brow?

COLLABORATION & COMMUNICATION

Possibly the Most Covid Day Yet... But in a Good Way
Collaboration
Schematic Design Meeting
Gettin' Along with Folks
Collaboration
Translation
Car Time
Urgent Messages
Remote Color Selection
Furniture Pull
Variations
Colleagues
Fun Stuff and Colleagues
How to Pick Stage Furniture
Production Meeting Weirdness
Show T-Shirts
Coffee Klatch
Community
Scenic Masterclass Speaker: Donald Holder
The Pritzker Prize and Fairness
Runnin' Crazy, Or, Scenic Design as a Profession
Set Design From Scratch
What a Month!
Red (tape, rage) and... Blue
Design Contracts

COLOR
Fun with Hardware Stores
Silverizing
Alive on Stage!
Chip It!
Remote Color Selection
Set Designer's Life (flamingo)
Painted Model
Line Drawing
Color Schemes
(What to) Coloring Book
Art Museum Visits (Romare Bearden)
Color Junkie
A Set Design from Scratch
A French Trend
Gummy Bears for Lunch
Scenic Painting Examples
Color War!
Color Wheel
Color Names
Tech: Lighting Color Fun

CONSTRUCTION DRAWINGS
Cool Vids About Theater Set and Architecture Design

Construction Drawings
Drafting
Drafting Day
Spoiler! Construction Drawings
Starting Construction Drawings
REALLY Starting Construction Drawings
R&J Construction Drawings

CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS
Weeding
Simultaneity
Progress Pic
This n' That
Stretching...
Process Pics (Romeo and Juliet)
Scenic Zoology (The Importance of Being Earnest)
Scenic Painting - Backdrops (The Winter's Tale)
Scenic Painting Examples (various)
Craftsmanship (Silent Sky)
Progress (Native Gardens)
How'd That Turn Out? (Native Gardens)
Tech: Lighting Color Fun (Ruined)

CONTRACTS
Design Contracts

COPYRIGHT & TRADEMARKS (also see PUBLIC DOMAIN IMAGES)
Copyright
On Copyright and the Public Domain
SNIPPET # 7
Copyright on the Internet
Copyright Has Never Been This Cute
Copyright and Trolls
Public Domain Treasure
Design, Reuse, Adaptation, and Proper Credit
Cornelius Parker, You Rascal You
Save Pepe!
I Needed the Laugh
Death of a Frog
Color War!

CORONAVIRUS AND THE ARTS

Here's a First

A Year Besieged

Clearly, I'm Not Going to Get Anything Done Today

Well, That was... Exciting?
Siege - Day 1 (For the start of a stay-at-home diary)
Siege - Day 17

COSTUMES

A Past How-To on Set Building
Set Designer / Fashionista
Threats
Tech: Lighting Color Fun

CREATIVITY (also see INSPIRATION)
Hare Brain v Tortoise Brain
Recharging
Creativity n' Cool
Inspirational Photos
Set Designer's Weekend
To Do
Obsessed
Reading Play Scripts
More Quotage
Paper Rules!

CRITICS & REVIEWS & PRESS
Critics
First Review is In
Criticism in Context
Gotta Laugh
Reviews
"Becky" Review
Set Designer's Day, the Press, and Treasure Hunting
Good Reviews
On Reviewers
Pictures in the Paper
Wodehouse World
Importance of Critics
David Mamet on Designers
Conversations
Quote of the Day
A Bit More Charlie
Hair Cuts for Radio and Other Weird Things
That Radio Thing
Women in Theater
Presidents' Day
Threats

CYCS (or cycloramas)
Scenic Masterclass Speaker: Donald Holder
Tech: Lighting Color Fun

DALLAS & FORT WORTH THEATER
New Venue
A Golden Age
Dallas Theater is Varied
Rule of Three
The Ghost in the Theater (Frank Lloyd Wright)
Eras End (Kitchen Dog Theater, the MAC)
Goodbye Old Blue (Kitchen Dog Theater)
Passing (Rose Pearson, Circle Theatre)
A New Dog House! (Kitchen Dog Theater)
Dogged (Wylie Theater & Kitchen Dog)
Big Tony

DEADLINES
Deadlines
Crunch Time
Crunch-Time (#2 a recurring theme!)

DECISION-MAKING
Anticipation
Ha!
First Steps...

DESIGN (also see Schematic Design)

Oops - It's Been How Long?

It Takes a While

As You Like It
Designing in Model
Design Subtleties
Editing
Bad First Drafts
The Political Power of (Set) Design
Variations
Recharging
Fight Call and Farcical Design
Painted Model
Alternate Versions
Set Designer's Weekend
Minimalism
Just Floatin' Along
Greening the Stage
Kitchens
David Mamet on Designers
Designers' Revenge
Good Advice
Design Quotes
Set Design From Scratch
First Steps...
Paper Rules!
Scenic Zoology
Design, Reuse, Adaptation, and Proper Credit
Scenic Painting Examples
Cool

DESIGNER RUN
Taping Out
Fight Call and Farcical Design
Set Designer's Weekend
This n' That
Stumble-Through

DESIGNERS
Ephemera (Melziner's Death of a Salesman)
Renderings (Wade Giampa)
Design, Reuse, Adaptation, and Proper Credit (Bob Lavallee)
Cornelius Parker, You Rascal You (Bob Lavallee & Cornelius Parker)
Women in Theatre
Big Tony (Wade Giampa)
Cool (Raymond Loewy)
Siege - Day 25 (Rube Goldberg)

DESIGN METHODS

Oops - It's Been How Long?
Snippet Central (from Alice Through the Proscenium's "Design Methods" chapter)

DESIGN PROCESS (reading through strike, also see ALICE and STEP-BY-STEP SET DESIGN)
How to Start a Set Design
I Wish...
Set Design From Scratch
First Steps...
Scenic Painting - Backdrops

DETAILS
Ruth Photo
Little Details
Details, Details, Details
Tech Details
Just Floatin' Along
No Matter How Well You Think You Understand...
Crunch-Time (#2 a recurring theme!)
Production Photo

DIRECTORS
Big Tony

DISASTER
Today's Lesson (Start the New Year Right)
Four Things for a Designer to Remember
Flooded!

DRAWING (also see CONSTRUCTION DRAWINGS and CAD)

Where Did the Spring Go? Poof!

Cool Vids About Theater Set and Architecture Design

Again With The Portraits

Getting My Hand Back In
A New Leaf Turned

Fun with Colored Pencils
Drafting
Fun with Construction Drawings
Low or High Tech
Gesture Sketches
Squidoo Update (sketchbooks)
Architectural Sketches
The Importance of Drawing
Line Drawing
This n' That
New Toy
A Brand New Boise Opens! (Bernini drawings and models)
Theatrical Sketches (Stanislavski)
Lost, Loooossst!
60 Years of Architectural Drafting
Set Design From Scratch
First Steps...
Paper Rules!
What a Month!
Architectural Sketching
Scenic Painting - Backdrops
Forbidden Sketching

DRESS REHEARSAL
Dress Rehearsal

DROPS

Theatrical Drops

EDITING
Editing

EFFECTS (AKA Special Effects)
Living Playwrights

EMOTIONS
Complicated Emotions

Up and Down
Favorite Shows
Not a Review: In the Next Room
Some Days...
The Fun of Research
It's Like Sand Painting Isn't It?
Jealousy
Red (tape, rage) and... Blue
Siege - Days 28 and 29
Siege - Day 30

ENVIRONMENTAL SETS (not confused with SUSTAINABILITY)
Set Designer's Day (Tree)
Weeding
Crunch-Time (#2 a recurring theme!)
Scenic Zoology
Progress
How'd That Turn Out?
Siege - Days 10 & 11

ETHICS
The Ethics and Morals of Theater
Getting Political
Design Contracts

EVIL SET DESIGN

Clearly, I'm Not Going to Get Anything Done Today

FABRIC (also see UPHOLSTERY)
Hunt and Seek
Collaboration
Speed Teching
Business Inspired Design
Fabric Shopping
Color Schemes
Cursed Carpentry
Minimalism
Stretching...
A New York Minute
Scenic Zoology
What Goes Around... Goes Around Again
End of the Rainbow

FAILURE
Film Fest?
Death of a Frog

FAME / FAMOUS SCENIC DESIGNERS & PLAYWRIGHTS

Here's a First (Tract Letts)
Ephemera (Jo Melziner)
It's Like Sand Painting Isn't It?
Scenic Master Class Speaker: Rob Howell
Scenic Masterclass Speaker: David Gallo and Ben Heller
Scenic Masterclass Speaker: Anna Louizos
Not a Review: Fly! (Anna Louizos)
In Passing (actors)

FANS
A New York Minute

FARCE
Fight Call and Farcical Design

FASHION (more or less, also see COSTUMES)
Show T-Shirts
What to Wear to the Theater
Women in Tech
Set Designer / Fashionista
End of the Rainbow
Hair Cuts for Radio and Other Weird Things

FAUX (Stone, Brick etc... see Stone, Brick, etc.)

FEEDBACK
Designers' Revenge

FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHY
Fight Call and Farcical Design
A French Trend

FILM

Well, That was... Exciting?
Design Quotes
Scouting Locations

FINISHING
Finishing and Reading the Omens
Simultaneity

FIRE DAMAGE (faux)
Punch Lists and Tech

FIREPLACE (faux)
Faux Stone
Scenic Zoology
Siege - Days 31, 32, 33, and 34

FIRST READ-THROUGH
First Read-Through

FLOORS
This n' That (floor tile)
Back to Black
Scenic Painting - Backdrops

FOAM
Set Designer's Day (Brick)
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike AND Stone
A French Trend
Production Photo

FOLIAGE/PLANTS (see ENVIRONMENTAL SETS)

FOUNTAIN (see WATER)

FREELANCING (also HEALTH, WEALTH, FAMILY-LIFE, and SELF-EMPLOYMENT)
Sidelined
The Arts and the Holidays
Theatrical Sleep Cycle
Distractions
One of the Perks of Freelancing
Good Advice
Yeesh
Runnin' Crazy, Or, Scenic Design as a Profession
Until...
Gummy Bears for Lunch
Getting Political
Design Contracts
Arts and Healthcare

FREE SPEECH (and politicking)
A Bit More Charlie
Inauguration Day
RESIST
Please Write Your Senator...
Fit for Empire
Presidents' Day
Threats
Death of a Frog
Arts and Healthcare

FURNITURE (also see SET DRESSING)
Pulling Furniture
Return of the Dreaded Sofa
At Home (At Home, by Bill Bryson)
Weather
Homework
Furniture Pull
The Thrill of the Find
Fight Call and Farcical Design
How to Pick Stage Furniture
Ha!
Art Museum Visits
Sometimes the Wheels Fall Off
Eras End
Deep Breath
End of the Rainbow (+ piano)
REALLY Haulin' Stuff (refrigerator)

GAMES (Also See MINECRAFT)
Siege - Day 1 (D&D)
Siege - Day 2 (D&D)
Siege - Day 4 (Minecraft)

GARDENS (see ENVIRONMENTAL SETS)

GEOMETRY
Back to the Land of the Living...

GHOSTS
The Ghost in the Theater

GIFTS (for designers and theater types)
Holiday Gifts

GOVERNMENTAL
Red (tape, rage) and... Blue

GREEN THEATER (see SUSTAINABILITY and RECYCLING)

HABITS
Importance of Habit

HAULING (and TRAVEL)
Scheduling
Weather
Lugging Stuff
Driving Hazards
Runny Aroundy Day
Loading Up
Auto Repair as Archeology
Runnin' Crazy, Or, Scenic Design as a Profession
Enjoy the Lulls
Gummy Bears for Lunch
REALLY Haulin' Stuff
Loading In and Up

HUMAN PERCEPTION
Magically Confusing the Audience

HYPNOSIS SHOW

A New Leaf Turned

Well, That was... Exciting?

IMPROVING

It Takes a While

IMPROVISATION
Free-wheeling

INCORPORATING LIGHTING AND SOUND
Scenic Master Class Speaker: Rob Howell

INSPIRATION
Inspiration
Art Break
Dreaming Up Ideas
Inspirational Photos
Minimalism
Up on the Roof
Obsessed
Architectural Stories
A French Trend

INTERNS
Interns and Apprentices
Intern-y

INTERRUPTIONS
Theater Interrupted
Good Reviews!
Book Sale and Status Update
White Christmas
Distractions
Craftsmanship

KITCHEN SETS
In Brief...
Kitchens
Opening Night

LIFTS (Stage Lifts)
Back to Work

LIGHTING
Surfin'
Ruth Photo
Short Builds
Kitchens (protection)
Scenic Masterclass Speaker: Donald Holder
David Mamet on Designers
Back to Work
Paint 'n Light
Craftsmanship
Tech: Lighting Color Fun

LISTS
Monday Mornings

LiveDesign SCENIC MASTER CLASS 2013
Back From NYC
Vicarious Tony Thrill
Scenic Master Class Speaker: Rob Howell
Rule of Three
Scenic Masterclass Speaker: David Gallo and Ben Heller
Scenic Masterclass Speaker: Anna Louizos
Greening the Stage

LOAD-IN
Load-In
Loading In and Up

LOCATIONS
Scouting Locations

MAGIC
Magically Confusing the Audience

MAPS
Siege - Day 1

MASTERCLASS

Well, That was... Exciting?

MEASUREMENTS
Four Things for a Designer to Remember

MEETINGS
Meetings
Theatrical Sleep Cycle
Holiday Prep
Paper Rules!
Siege - Days 14&15

METALS
A Grab Bag

MINECRAFT (what? you were expecting theater? Design is Design.)

Minecraft Theater Design Class

Possibly the Most Covid Day Yet... But in a Good Way (Illias)

Again With The Portraits

Getting My Hand Back In

Clearly, I'm Not Going to Get Anything Done Today (Illias)

Catch-Up Post (Illias)

A Happier New Year (Illias)

MINIMALISM
Quote of the Day

MODELS

Set Models

A Past How-To on Set Building

A New Leaf Turned
As You Like It
Designing in Model
Now This is What I Call a Model!
Model Building
From Model to Full Sized Set
Mystery Model
Set Designer's Day (tree)
Painted Model
A Brand New Boise Opens! (Bernini drawings and models)
Minimalism
Greening the Stage
Monsterpiece Theater
Architectural Stories
Set Dressing
Model Making: Tapes and Glues
Scenic Zoology
Progress

MOTIVATION

Here's a First
Project, Service, or Ego?
David Mamet on Designers

MUSICALS
Music and Set Design
What a Month!

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS - NEA (see Arts Funding)

NOTES (see Rehearsal Reports)

OFF-BROADWAY
Siege - Day 9
Siege - Days 12 & 13

ORGANIZATION

Thawing Out
Studio Organization
Into the New Year
Holidays Approaching the Studio
Enjoy the Lulls

OPENING
Approaching Opening
Set Designer's Day - Rest
Opening for Collapse
Reminder: The Whipping Man
Towards Opening...
Opening and Other Up-Dates
Book Sale and Status Update
A Valentine's Present
Sometimes the Wheels Fall Off
Gummy Bears for Lunch

PAINT ELEVATIONS (Also see Scenic Painting)
Paint Elevations
Watercolor Sketching
Painted Model
Hair Cuts for Radio and Other Weird Things
Scenic Painting - Backdrops

PAPER
Back to the Land of the Living...

PERFECTIONISM
Perfection
Minimalism
Craftsmanship

PERIOD PIECES
Surfin'
How to Start a Set Design

PHOTOCOPIES and PRINT / GRAPHICS
End of the Rainbow
Hair Cuts for Radio and Other Weird Things

PHOTOGRAPHY & VIDS (see also CONSTRUCTION and SET PHOTOS)
Black and White
Model Photography
A Day for Set Photos
Surfin'
Inspirational Photos
Ruth Photo
The Fun of Research
The Trend in Photography
What a Month!
Hair Cuts for Radio and Other Weird Things

PLANTS/FOLIAGE (see ENVIRONMENTAL SETS)

PLAYWRIGHTS (and Writing)
Honestly
Living Playwrights
US Versions of UK Stories
Attention Aspiring Playwrights!
Play Writing
Reading Play Scripts
Reading Script Submittals
Characters
Woohoo! NEA Grant to Kitchen Dog
Kitchen Dog's PUP FEST Today

POETRY
Siege - Days 19 and 20

POLITICS
The Political Power of (Set) Design
Threats
Arts and Healthcare
Two Things

PRACTICALS
Practicals (general and Coke machine)

PROBLEM SOLVING (and fixing problems)
Finding Solutions
Minimalism
Scenic Zoology

PROCRASTINATION
REALLY Starting Construction Drawings

PRODUCING
Producing on Broadway (Scott Rudin)

PRODUCTION DESIGN (AKA "movie and TV sets")
Production Design
Theater Design Catch-Up Day!

PRODUCTION MEETING
What Happens at a Production Meeting?
Production Meeting Weirdness
Stumble-Through

PROJECTIONS
Minimalism
Stumble-Through
Not a Review: Diana Krall
Stretching...
A New York Minute
What a Month!

PROPORTIONS
Proportions

PROPS
End of the Rainbow
Scenic Painting - Backdrops
Flooded!

PUBLIC DOMAIN IMAGES (also see COPYRIGHT)
The British Library Images
Public Domain Treasure
Setting the Art Free

PUPPETS
A Grab Bag

QUALITY CONTROL
Sitting and Looking

READING SCRIPTS
Reading Scripts
Catching Up
How to Start a Set Design
Reading a New Script to Design For
Reading Play Scripts
Reading Script Submittals

REALISATION
I Wish

REALISM
Crazy Busy!

RECYCLING and REUSE (see also SUSTAINABILITY)
A Terrific TED Talk (Dan Phillips Houses)
Dumpster Diving
Greening the Stage
Green Theater on Squidoo
Design, Reuse, Adaptation, and Proper Credit
Cornelius Parker, You Rascal You

RED
Color Junkie

REDESIGN
Cut-n-Slash
Kitchens
Design, Reuse, Adaptation, and Proper Credit

REHEARSAL REPORTS
Details, Details, Details

REHEARSALS
Taping Out
Stumble-Through

REIMBURSIBLES
Reimbursibles

RENDERINGS
Line Drawing
Renderings (Wade Giampa)
Deep Breath (set dressing)
Hair Cuts for Radio and Other Weird Things
Architectural Sketching
Scenic Painting - Backdrops

RESEARCH
Research
Set Design - Research
Details
Painting Day
Set Designer's Weekend
The Fun of Research
Color Schemes
Research Libraries
Catch-Up
Greening the Stage
A Peek into the Past
High Brow? or Low Brow?
The American Room
Set Design From Scratch
Green Research

RETIREMENT
Until...

REVIEWS (see CRITICS)

SAFETY
Fight Call and Farcical Design
Today's Lesson Children?
Sometimes the Wheels Fall Off
Stupid Superstition
Arts and Healthcare

SCENE CHANGES
Rule of Three
Scenic Masterclass Speaker: Anna Louizos
Magically Confusing the Audience
Scenic Zoology

SCENE SHOP
Shop Visit: or Our Industrial Legacy
Hair Cuts for Radio and Other Weird Things

SCENIC CARPENTRY

A Past How-To on Set Building
Cursed Carpentry
Minimalism
Just Floatin' Along
Paint 'n Light
Craftsmanship

SCENIC PAINTING
Oops - It's Been How Long?

Theatrical Drops

Tech Weekend and Scenic Painting
Set Design Day
The Zen of Painting
Strangest Industrial Injury
Painting the Stage
Paint Elevations
Homework
High and Low Tech Part II
Ladder Work
Helping Out
Painting Slats
Time Flies
Painted Model
Simultaneity
Tweaky, Tweaky
Short Builds
News from the Painting Front
Cursed Carpentry
Faux Stone
Minimalism
Improvising Techniques
Scenic Painters
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike AND Stone
What to Wear to the Theater
Successful Smearing
Gappiness in Blogging
Production Photo
Paint 'n Light
What a Month!
Scenic Zoology
Hair Cuts for Radio and Other Weird Things
Scenic Painting - Backdrops
Scenic Painting Examples
Craftsmanship
Color War!
Theater Design Catch-Up Day!
Siege - Days 31, 32, 33, and 34

SCHEDULING
Crunch
Set Designer's Life
Overlap
Scheduling
Creative Time Management
Full Time
Drowned in Work
Time Off
Set Designer's Day (Cake)
Visit from the Future
Set Designer's Day - Rest
Sidelined
Homework
On the Drawing Board
Lull? Not So Much
Scheduling in Advance
Set Designer's Life: Sleep Deprivation
Monday Mornings
The Arts and the Holidays
Time Flies
Simultaneity
Theatrical Sleep Cycle
Tweaky, Tweaky
Short Builds
Details, Details, Details
Turning Down Work
Sometimes the Wheels Fall Off
A French Trend
Enjoy the Lulls
Gummy Bears for Lunch
Siege - Day 14

SCHEMATIC DESIGN
Schematic Design Meeting
Sneak Peek
Variations
Set Design From Scratch
Process Pics

SECRET
The Secret

SET DRESSER
Deep Breath

SET DRESSING

Tschotskies
Shopping
Weeding
Set Design Day
Pulling Furniture
Phew!
Tip for the Day
Set Dressing is Everything!
The Hunt
Stuff!
Striking
Fun with Hardware Stores
Little Jobs
Details
The Thrill of the Find
Art as Set Dressing
Dressing a Boar
Runny Aroundy Day
Finishing Touches
How to Pick Stage Furniture
Little Details
Tech Details
Dumpster Diving
Kitchens
Crunch-Time (#2 a recurring theme!)
High Brow? or Low Brow?
Set Dressing
News Break
Deep Breath
Scenic Zoology
End of the Rainbow

SET PHOTOS

NY Public Library Archives and My Stuff Too... (I and You, Natural Shocks, and The Last Truck

Set Models (Irma Vep)

Show Photos

Quick! Catch It On Stage (Que Sera, Giant Monster)

Tschotskies (I'll Pray for You So Hard, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Radient Vermin)
Inspiration (Man of la Mancha)
Documenting the Work (Traveling Lady)
Black and White (Death is No Small Change)
Alive on Stage (The Frequency of Death) B&W
Charles Dickens (Edwin Drood)
Reminder: (The Whipping Man)
Surfin' (In the Next Room and Charm)
Furniture Pull (In the Next Room: the Vibrator Play)
Pictures in the Paper (Boeing, Boeing and Ruth)
First Peek at The Divine Sister (The Divine Sister)
Ruth Photo (Ruth)
Dallas Critics' Forum Awards (Ruth)
Alternate Versions (Boeing, Boeing)
I Wish... (Beauty Queen of Leenane)
Interns and Apprentices (Lawrence and Hollowman)
Minimalism (Hamlet)
Starting Construction Drawings (Incorruptible)
Intern-y (The Glass Menagerie)
In Brief... (Miracle on South Division Street)
Kitchens (Exit, Pursued by a Bear, Miracle on S. Division St., The Rabbit Hole, Drawer Boy, Dinner with Friends, Bright Ideas)
Reset the Net (Too Many Cooks)
The American Room (Se Llama Cristina)
Pen Award Winner! (Se Llama Cristina)
Successful Smearing (Detroit)
Set Dressing (Thinner Than Water)
Gappiness in Blocking (The Goat: or Who's Sylvia?)
A Day for Set Photos (The Diary of Anne Frank)
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike AND Stone
Please Forgive a Little Back-Patting (Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike)
Set Dressing
Creating the Romeo and Juliet Set
A French Trend (Lovers & Executioners)
Production Photo (Lovers & Executioners)
Paint n' Light (The Dumb Waiter)
News Break (The Explorers Club)
What a Month! (The Addams Family)
Scenic Zoology (The Importance of Being Earnest)
End of the Rainbow (End of the Rainbow)
That Radio Thing (Wait Until Dark and others)
Scenic Painting - Backdrops (The Winter's Tale)
REALLY Haulin' Stuff (Feathers and Teeth)
Scenic Painting Examples (various)
Craftsmanship (Silent Sky)
Loading In and Up (Trevor)
Progress (Native Gardens)
How'd That Turn Out? (Native Gardens)
Theater Design Catch-Up Day! (Rasheeda Speaking, King o' the Moon, Ciao, and Whatta Ya Think?!)
Siege Days 10 & 11 (A Wolf at the Door, Alabaster, Ironbound, Enchanted April, The Spitfire Grill, The Sugarbean Sisters, The Traveling Lady, All My Sons, Native Gardens, Humble Boy)
Siege - Days 31, 32, 33, and 34 (In the Next Room (the Vibrator Play)