Painting Backdrops

Painting Backdrops

I am painting a backdrop for my high school production. Any suggestions?

The backdrop is supposed to look like we are still building the set so it will have scaffolding and ladders and cans of paint.

Any suggestions or ideas would be great. I've never painted a backdrop before so I have no idea how to go about doing it.
I'm going to be painting on sheets probably, is normal paint fine for that?
Please help me! pictures with ideas would be amazing....

You can use acrylic paint for that, somewhat thinned out.

I'd suggest doing some normal size drawings first. Then when you get something you like, scale it up to the size it needs to be. You do that by drawing a graph over the smaller drawing, with, say, one square inch in the graph equalling one square foot on the real thing. Then you draw a large graph on the sheets and just enlarge the portions in each square, taking what appears in the one inch squares of the small drawing, and making them one foot squares in the large graph.

Hope that's clear. Could not find a good example on line.