Theatre: Makeup

While a junior at Blackburn College, I took a class focused on preparing me for being a makeup artist and costume designer for the characters that grace the stages of the world.  In this class, I learned how to transform my face; I learned how to make myself look old, young, gory, or broken and bruised.  I also learned how to turn myself into an animal, a piece of food, or a character from a movie.  Also, we studied period dress from times dating back to Ancient Greece, Shakespeare, and the Renaissance, all the way to the 1900s, a decade at a time.  From this class I learned how to create a character from head to toe.  To give a clearer picture of what I learned, here are pictures of the makeup that graced my face during this class, most images attached to links.  I've also added some of my more recent work with makeup, specifically from Blackburn's production of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.  I played Frank-N-Furter.

Frank-N-Furter step one

Frank-N-Furter step two

Frank-N-Furter step three

Frank-N-Furter step four

Old Age Makeup from the front
Old Age Makeup from below

Old Age Makeup from side

Gore Makeup

Fantasy Makeup: Jack Sparrow

Fantasy Makeup: Jack Sparrow 2

Fantasy Makeup: Jack Sparrow 3