Continental Scenery

On a recent morning, Frank Pera jaunted on a beach of fine sand, past tall palms swaying in the tropical breeze, almost getting his feet wet in the aqua blue Caribbean waves. But that cruise liner in the background wasn't moving and Pera's feet were firmly planted on the cement floor of his Sun Valley studio directly in front of a scenic background.

On a recent morning, Frank Pera jaunted on a beach of fine sand, past tall palms swaying in the tropical breeze, almost getting his feet wet in the aqua blue Caribbean waves. But that cruise liner in the background wasn't moving and Pera's feet were firmly planted on the cement floor of his Sun Valley studio directly in front of a scenic background.

Ed Strang likes to paint big. One of his canvases, a landscape of a cemetery with gray skies and mountains in the background, is 520 feet long by 35 feet high; a cityscape showing Century City viewed from atop the Fox Plaza stretches 370 by 45. Don't look for his artwork in any gallery, though. Ed Strang paints for the movies. You'll see the cemetery scene in "Addam's Family Values" in November.