OCCC's Scenic Painting Intensive
The Scenic Painting Intensive will prepare students to enter the workforce as an entry level scenic painter in the film industry. Instruction will cover basic and advanced scenic painting terminology and skills in a hands-on, simulated film set environment. This will include seaming, texturing, aging, faux finishes, staining, and numerous other scenic painting techniques.
Scenic Painting Intensive
Dates: TBD
Interested in taking this course? Email Sean Lynch for more information.
Students completing Scenic Painting Intensive will receive the Scenic Painting micro-credential.
About the Instructor – Marlowe Monfort-Hermanovski
Marlow Monfort-Hermanovski is a Dallas-based artist born in Oklahoma City, but her art career began in Southampton, New York, while getting her BFA in drawing. While still in school, she began painting large scale murals, tromp l’oeil and faux finishes in New York and Connecticut for clients including Martha Stewart and designer Mary Gilliatt, which unwittingly prepared her for future work.
After moving to Dallas in 1992, she continued painting large scale murals but for a large variety of private and commercial clients including restaurants, corporate headquarters, medical facilities and schools. It was 19 years of painting murals for PF Chang’s China Bistro that led to a phone call about doing a small background scene for a Wes Anderson movie, “Isle of Dogs.”
Accepting this new type of work opened her eyes to all the other outlets for painting in the entertainment industry, and she started working with scenic shops in Dallas as a designer and created sets and props for television shows, theater, retail spaces and public outdoor venues.
Working with the scenic shops put her in touch with construction coordinators looking for scenic painters. She has since worked as a scenic painter on “Last Summer” – TV series, “Killers of the Flower Moon” – Feature Film, “Tulsa King” – TV series, and “The Chosen” – TV Series. Marlowe still continues to work and with different scenic shops in between filming seasons and doing her own private art commissions.
