How would you create a stone look on wooden flats? Film/Theatre: Art Direction/ Production Design?

Question

Hi,

I'm art directing a low-budget student film in Toronto, Canada, and I'm looking for a solution to creating a fake stone wall on wooden flats in order to create the look of a bedroom in a medieval castle.

A couple possible solutions I've contemplated:

-Painting the wood to look like stone
-Plastering stone shaped sections and then painting them

Is there such thing as a fake stone panel that can be stapled or hammered to flats? If so what might it cost and where might I go to pick them up?

I would appreciate any feedback anyone can give me.

Thanks,
Daniel

Answer 1

There's a spray paint called fleckstone about $3.00(U.S.) a can.
Or you could paint styrofoam shapes with the fleckstone and glue them on the flats. There is a wallpaper company that makes a faux stone paper-try almost any wallpaper store look under faux finishes.

here's a store-a roll of the paper is $31.95 if you rip it into irregular shapes and glue it down you've got a wall.


http://www.berlinwallpaper.com/illusions/index.htm


Good luck-oh, I mean break a leg-afterall, it is the theatre.

Answer 2

At the community theatre where I do a lot of shows they use painted pieces of foam and it looks pretty good. You could try that.