These are the large rocks that made up the set for "Lord of the Flies" at The Denver Center for the Performing Arts" (Denver Center Theatre Company). We carved large rock shapes out of foam, coated them with CP9 and cheese cloth, applied acroflex for texture, and then painted them with a base coat, some washes and spattering. We also had clear plastic that we painted and coated with texture that went over the light boxes along the bottom of all the rock to create a lava effect when the  lights in the lightboxes were lit. The lava would only appear when the lights were lit up, so the lightboxes looked like rock when the lightboxes were unlit.
fellow painters: Kristin Hamer, Melanie Rentschler, Brian Proud and Jeni Raddatz. Set Designer: James Kronzer.

 

 

Step 1: Carve styrofoam blocks into rock forms

 

 

Step 2: Apply tinted CP9 and cheese cloth ( light boxes had been installed and painted plastic over the light boxes had been applied already)

 

 

 

Step 3 and 4: Apply acroflex texture and then paint wiht base color

 

 

Step 5 and 6: apply black wash then do spattering, washes and some drybrushing. rock unlit

rock lit