Sarah also told Forbes that painting these flowers was the most fun she has had making backdrops in a long time. That’s why I look forward to this assignment every year.

As painted scenery rolled by outside a moving car or an eerily still vista floated behind an actor, viewers in the know might applaud themselves for seeing the backdrops for what they really were ...

Something to keep in mind, though, is that backdrops do get painted over. In some prisons, the backdrop can change a few times a year.

So with the support of Texas Performing Arts and UT's College of Fine Arts, Maness was able to create "Behind the Scenes: The Art of the Hollywood Backdrop," an exhibit of 12 MGM backdrops painted ...

These are the 90 painted backdrops that remain of more than 200 saved through the Art Directors Guild Backdrop Recovery Project, a two-year attempt to keep a relatively few pieces of irreplaceable ...

She also works with hand-painted backdrops. Shannon Holt, 39 Artist Holt says she painted her model to look like “a blue heron flying over a Florida coastal waterway.” Ryder Gledhill The realist ...

"In Otisville, New York (10th image), we can see a painted scene of the Statue of Liberty, but in front of it is a digital backdrop of the same scene," says Emdur.

The hand-painted backdrops in “Carmen” offer “an amazing effect,” shares Ian Derrer, the opera’s Kern Wildenthal general director and CEO.(Marion Kerno/Opéra de Rouen) The Dallas Opera ...