"LILI" Title Banner

 Continuing forward with the painting of the drops and banners which will be used for the set of   LILI.

I am making use of "Negative Space" in the production of this show. certain segments will be performed by puppeteers in all black against a black background. These "Invisible" creatures will be able to manipulate anything with color and reflectivity within the negative space of the blackness and those items will appear to float, appear and disappear at will, like magic.
The opening moments of the show will feature this Title banner which will unfold magically before the audience's eyes.
Above is the computer generated Logo for LILI, with a graphic breakdown of it's measurements for a 3X5' banner.

Here are poster board cutout stencils of the letters full sized. these are traced onto the canvas in the proper positions ( marked carefully on the stencils) and then the Violet paint is applied, just slightly over the edge of the pencil line. When this is dry, I retrace the stencils over the violet paint and then carefully paint the black outline to meet that pencil outline. The rest of the black background is painted in to fill out the banner

 When all the paint is dry ( in this case both front and back of the canvas) I  hand stitched 1/2" diameter violet rhinestones to certain points on the letters. These will glisten magically in the stage lights as the banner is unrolled between the two black clad puppeteers

This whole effect will last only a few seconds onstage, but it sets the tone of the show with the promise of more magical moments to come ( and there are many!)