From trees to vehicles to figures, Woodland Scenics is the premiere supplier of diorama and scale model materials. Their extensive collection of kits and accessories, like the Basic Diorama Starter Kit, will help get your project off the ground or add the finishing touches to your masterpiece.
The Foliage & Grasses kit includes :forest green accent, green grass, spray bottle, project glue, sifter, foliage fiber, yellow flowers, bushes, wild grass and instructions. While the Mountain Making Kit has everything you need (minus a base) to start sculpting terrain.
In 1822 Louis Daguerre , a painter and stage decorator, along with painter Charles Marie Bouton, invented "realistic illusion shows" or Dioramas. Together they opened The Diorama in Paris a venue to show their large scale panorama paintings, with special light effects.
woodcut of The Diorama Paris, c. 1830
With light, forced perspective and a couple cranks of moving mechanisms, Daguerre and Bouton turned paintings into moving scenes.
Painting: Ruins in Fog, Charles Bouton c.1823
Here is a video recreation of the Daguerre and Bouton Diorama. Although, the video is in French (without subtitles)-it requires very
little translation, as it visually demonstrates the technique that
Daguerre and Bouton invented, which is clearly the precursor to modern cinema.
Diorama Artist, Peggy Burnett, 81, donated what was once a hobby of capturing childhood memories to a Heritage Museum in Utah. Read the Full Article Here.
photo Spenser Heaps- One of Burnett's dioramas on display at the Orem Heritage Museum .
One of Peggy Burnett's dioramas, entitled "The Borrowers" after the
children's fantasy novel, on display at the Orem Heritage Museum on
Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. Burnett has been making dioramas since the 1970s.