Loading ...Logan Central Magazine recently interviewed Doug Cartwright, a leadlight artist — which means he works on stained-glass windows. Last summer he was invited to create leadlights for Eustace Scrubb’s house and the Dawn Treader.
Doug walked through the sets in progress, and, at Sound Stage 5, a crew of builders was working swiftly to assemble a free-standing group of houseless, three-walled rooms. ”The first batch of leadlights was for the rather drab and conventional Scrubb House, from which Lucy, Edmund and their cousin Eustace depart for Narnia. Then there would be some much more stylish panels of Narnian leadlight to go into the Royal Stateroom doors onboard the ship.”
Why is all this necessary? Why such painstaking detail?
“[T]he new generation of digital cameras give such fine resolution that they couldn’t get away with faking things much anymore – for a leadlight to look real in close-up, it needs to be real.”
Click here for the PDF article [page 23]. It takes awhile to download.
Thanks to NarniaWeb for the story!