Now Imagine That is built from a real career painting hand-painted stage backdrops for iconic classic rock bands. Through visual storytelling, professional tools, and hands-on discovery, students see how imagination becomes craft, confidence, problem-solving, and possibility.
At the center is a simple belief: when kids use their hands to make, build, draw, shape, and solve, they begin to understand that their ideas can affect the world around them.
In an AI-shaped future, that kind of human skill matters more, not less.
At the center is a simple belief: when kids use their hands to make, build, draw, shape, and solve, they begin to understand that their ideas can affect the world around them.
In an AI-shaped future, that kind of human skill matters more, not less.
A guided live presentation built around hand-painted stage backdrops, career storytelling, professional tools, and hands-on discovery.
Now Imagine That brings the scale and energy of concert backdrop work into communities and youth programs. Kids see how large visual environments are imagined, designed, painted, built, handled, and used in the real world.The presentation connects the work behind the backdrop to a bigger idea: creative skill is not just talent. It is focus, hand control, problem-solving, tool use, decision-making, and the confidence to keep building.
A 7' x 15' original hand-painted scenic backdrop designed for live group presentations.
This backdrop gives kids a close-up look at scenic art, creative structure, and how a visual idea becomes a presentation piece that can be built, moved, supported, and used in front of an audience.
A World-to-World Reveal Backdrop Where Kids Help Complete the Universe.
Dawn of Stars begins hidden behind the Whimsical Planet backdrop. When revealed, the students are shifted from one painted world to another, now standing on a distant planet inside the same universe and looking back across space at the Whimsical Planet itself.
A large 20' x 25' hand-painted stage piece created for Smash Mouth and donated back after the tour for continued use in community presentations for kids.
This backdrop was created for Smash Mouth, the band behind “All Star” from Shrek, then donated back after the tour for presentations for kids. It gives kids an up-close look at real concert-scale artwork and shows how creative skill can move from the shop, to the stage, to something they already know and remember.
A behind-the-scenes presentation segment currently being filmed showing how a space-themed background is created to give iconic rock band's logo a floating effect.
This short form video segment follows part of the approved April Wine backdrop project as the background is sprayed in, giving kids a rare look at concert-scale creative work while it is still being built, adjusted, and brought to life before it's shipped to Canada.
I’ve been immersed in art and visual storytelling for as long as I can remember. It started with crayons on the front room floor and steadily evolved into painting stage backdrops for iconic classic rock bands. Along the way, I built my foundation through art classes in high school and community college, worked under some of the nation’s top painters, painted towering billboards in Las Vegas, ran a successful sign painting shop serving high-profile organizations, and eventually stepped into the world of large-scale concert backdrops.
Now Imagine That grew out of that path. After years of turning ideas into massive visual pieces for stages and audiences, I wanted to bring that process into rooms full of kids. The presentation is built around the work behind the backdrop: the drawing, painting, tools, scale, structure, problem-solving, focus, and hand skill that turn imagination into something real. It gives kids a close-up look at creative work as a path, not just a hobby.
Now Imagine That grew out of that path. After years of turning ideas into massive visual pieces for stages and audiences, I wanted to bring that process into rooms full of kids. The presentation is built around the work behind the backdrop: the drawing, painting, tools, scale, structure, problem-solving, focus, and hand skill that turn imagination into something real. It gives kids a close-up look at creative work as a path, not just a hobby.
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