A charge scenic artist, also known as a charge artist or head scenic artist, leads and oversees the painting of

stage Stage, stages, or staging may refer to: Arts and media Acting * Stage (theatre), a space for the performance of theatrical productions * Theatre, a branch of the performing arts, often referred to as "the stage" * ''The Stage'', a weekly Brit ...

, film, or television

scenery Theatrical scenery is that which is used as a setting for a theatrical production. Scenery may be just about anything, from a single chair to an elaborately re-created street, no matter how large or how small, whether the item was custom-made or ...

. The duties of the charge artist involve techniques for replicating color and texture, as well as preparing and aging various surfaces. The charge artist interprets the

scenic designer Scenic may refer to: * Scenic design * Scenic painting * Scenic overlook * Scenic railroad (disambiguation) * Scenic route * Scenic, South Dakota, United States * Scenic (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse Aviation * Airwave Scenic, an Austr ...

technical drawings Technical drawing, drafting or drawing, is the act and discipline of composing drawings that visually communicate how something functions or is constructed. Technical drawing is essential for communicating ideas in industry and engineering. ...

and paint elevations, and with a crew of journeymen

scenic artist A charge scenic artist, also known as a charge artist or head scenic artist, leads and oversees the painting of stage, film, or television scenery. The duties of the charge artist involve techniques for replicating color and texture, as well as p ...

s, brings them to life on the actual scenery. The charge artist is also responsible for the

budgeting A budget is a calculation plan, usually but not always financial plan, financial, for a defined accounting period, period, often one year or a month. A budget may include anticipated sales volumes and revenues, resource quantities including tim ...

of the finished sets along with the production designer and the

art director Art director is a title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, live-action and animated film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supe ...

. In the United States such individuals are typically members of the

United Scenic Artists United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829, formerly known as United Scenic Artists of America (USAA), is an American labor union. It is a nationwide autonomous Local of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. It organizes designers ...

union.

Notable scenic artists

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D. Dominick Lombardi D. Dominick Lombardi (born 1954) is a visual artist, writer and art critic; the U.S. editor of ''dArt international'' magazine; as well as a curator. He was an art critic for ''The New York Times'' from 1998 to 2005. Biography D. Dominick Lombar ...

Yuri Makoveychuk Yuri Makoveychuk (born 1961) is an artist-painter and filmmaker working in the rare field of mannequin animation. Biography Makoveychuk was born in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Kyiv, Ukraine) in 1961. He moved to Philadelphia in 1990, ...

Roman Turovsky Roman Mykhailovych Turovsky-Savchuk (born May 16, 1961) is an American artist-painter, photographer and videoinstallation artist, as well as a lutenist-composer,

Michael Zansky Michael Zansky (born 1947, in the Bronx, New York) is an American artist working in installation art, sculpture, painting and photography. Early life Michael Zansky was born in 1947 in the Tremont section the Bronx, into the family of Louis Zan ...

References

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