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Monday, February 21, 2011
Friday, February 18, 2011
Glamour & Character
After flying in directly from Hong Kong to start the course 2 weeks late - to what felt like the HOTTEST summer of my life! I can honestly say that I felt I was never going to be able to catch up.
But here we are in my 3rd week and after the expert tutelage from our talented, experienced teachers, I can comfortably say that we are all in our creative element with numerous projects on the move and that I have never felt lost or behind!
This week started with Glamour makeup, trading our subtle liquid based palette for a heavy grease based, fake eyelash powered bomb shell look. It was lots of fun, I can assure you - even after a minor lipstick explosion on my part (Sorry Azriel!!)
We then created our film characters. Rachel impressed us all by creating dreadlocks in her own creative techniques, everyone really captured their characters through not only makeup but wig work, costume and hair.
Wednesday we looked at the 1920’s Marcel wave look with the lovely Tanya, getting to use our hot rollers and Marcel clips.
The week ended with work on our prosthetics with Zeb and Rachel moving onto mold-making at a record pace. My prosthetic is moving along, I must say I felt proud looking at the tension/muscular details in the forehead.
This has been another amazing week and looking back on all of our work, we can’t help but feel proud at the progress we’ve made. Doing this course has been one of the best decisions I’ve made!
Alex Guillot - Student
But here we are in my 3rd week and after the expert tutelage from our talented, experienced teachers, I can comfortably say that we are all in our creative element with numerous projects on the move and that I have never felt lost or behind!
This week started with Glamour makeup, trading our subtle liquid based palette for a heavy grease based, fake eyelash powered bomb shell look. It was lots of fun, I can assure you - even after a minor lipstick explosion on my part (Sorry Azriel!!)
We then created our film characters. Rachel impressed us all by creating dreadlocks in her own creative techniques, everyone really captured their characters through not only makeup but wig work, costume and hair.
Wednesday we looked at the 1920’s Marcel wave look with the lovely Tanya, getting to use our hot rollers and Marcel clips.
The week ended with work on our prosthetics with Zeb and Rachel moving onto mold-making at a record pace. My prosthetic is moving along, I must say I felt proud looking at the tension/muscular details in the forehead.
This has been another amazing week and looking back on all of our work, we can’t help but feel proud at the progress we’ve made. Doing this course has been one of the best decisions I’ve made!
Alex Guillot - Student
Friday, February 4, 2011
Face Shapes, Hair & Sculpture
Learning to recognise different eye shapes and how to correct them with the simple swish of a brush - I thoroughly enjoyed this task as experimenting with eye shadow is one of my favourite aspects of make-up.
We studied lips shapes and corrections. We applied the techniques by doing a full-face make-up, splitting the face in half and creating two different looks.
Wednesday was most exciting for me because I was pushed out of my comfort zone. We had our first lesson on hairdressing with our lovely teacher Tanya. Some of us had never experimented with hair, so the day proved to be an exciting challenge. Tanya taught us all about protein and moisturising products, and how they should be used, as well as learning how to recognise different types of hair. She then showed us how to apply the products and correctly blow-dry the hair in preparation for setting. As much as I enjoyed doing hair, I must say, I really enjoyed being pampered and fussed over when it was my partners turn to play with my hair!!
The amazing things we learnt and tried in the first three days just made our desire to go back to the workshop blaze! So when Thursday and Friday came, we finally could continue with our sculptures, refining our new skills, forms and beginning to add texture to the faces. I now have the words “ORGANIC” and “REFERENCE” burnt into the back of my head! No matter how long our eyes wander around the studio, we always see something new and wonderful to inspire us, and make us even more determined to work as hard as we can. I just know next week will be just as wonderful as this one.
Natalie Rose - Student
We studied lips shapes and corrections. We applied the techniques by doing a full-face make-up, splitting the face in half and creating two different looks.
Wednesday was most exciting for me because I was pushed out of my comfort zone. We had our first lesson on hairdressing with our lovely teacher Tanya. Some of us had never experimented with hair, so the day proved to be an exciting challenge. Tanya taught us all about protein and moisturising products, and how they should be used, as well as learning how to recognise different types of hair. She then showed us how to apply the products and correctly blow-dry the hair in preparation for setting. As much as I enjoyed doing hair, I must say, I really enjoyed being pampered and fussed over when it was my partners turn to play with my hair!!
The amazing things we learnt and tried in the first three days just made our desire to go back to the workshop blaze! So when Thursday and Friday came, we finally could continue with our sculptures, refining our new skills, forms and beginning to add texture to the faces. I now have the words “ORGANIC” and “REFERENCE” burnt into the back of my head! No matter how long our eyes wander around the studio, we always see something new and wonderful to inspire us, and make us even more determined to work as hard as we can. I just know next week will be just as wonderful as this one.
Natalie Rose - Student
Friday, January 28, 2011
Wig Knotting & Sculptures
This week brought us an exercise in patience known as wig knotting. Also learning to identify face shapes, more work on highlighting and shading and adding more detail to our prosthetic sculptures.
I think we all still feel like kids in a candy store, familiarising ourselves with our kits and learning something new every day! Wig knotting with Penny introduced us to the daunting task of making a moustache one hair at a time. I wasn't kidding when I said it was an exercise in patience! Then we were back with Louise to learn how to identify face shapes and use highlighting and shading to correct them. It was great to get into our kits again and I think I may have finally overcome my crippling eye-shadow dyslexia.
After a break for the public holiday (boo, hiss!) we went back to our prosthetic sculpture, learning more about the sculpting tools and how to use them to gradually make our creations come to life. It was all about form and making shapes look organic.
Rachel Greening - Student
I think we all still feel like kids in a candy store, familiarising ourselves with our kits and learning something new every day! Wig knotting with Penny introduced us to the daunting task of making a moustache one hair at a time. I wasn't kidding when I said it was an exercise in patience! Then we were back with Louise to learn how to identify face shapes and use highlighting and shading to correct them. It was great to get into our kits again and I think I may have finally overcome my crippling eye-shadow dyslexia.
After a break for the public holiday (boo, hiss!) we went back to our prosthetic sculpture, learning more about the sculpting tools and how to use them to gradually make our creations come to life. It was all about form and making shapes look organic.
Rachel Greening - Student
Saturday, January 22, 2011
A New Start
Early morning starts all round had five overly excited people bustling in to begin what we had all been awaiting for the past few months. As Zeb, Azrielle, Natalie, Rachel and Myself introduced ourselves, we spoke of what had all brought us to Make-Up Effects Group Master Classes.
BUT... before we could get our teeth into the special effects we had to become best friends with our fabulous new makeup kits. As we collectively “OOHH” and “AAHH” over each mascara, eyeshadow, foundation, lip colours ... Louise began her trademark hygiene drill, most of us realising the amount of bad habits we would have to brake.
Our first makeup experience was Louise’s demonstration of a more natural look, all the time showing us different application techniques. When it came time to have a go ourselves we soon discovered it was not as easy on each other as Louise made it appear. Revision on our high school art was given with the importance of highlights and shadow within makeup being explained, and by ourselves attempted.
For one afternoon we were gifted with the wisdom of Beauty Therapist Lian. We were taught the importance of skin preparation prior to makeup as well as the procedure for makeup removal meaning we were each treated to facials. (YAY!!) Combined with makeup removal we were coached on how to identify skin pigmentation and how that will effect the makeup upon each person.
Thursday was prosthetic day. Initially we all felt like we’d been thrown in the deep end, but with the guidance of Nick and Paul, our characters have begun to take shape. With our first week flying by so quickly, we are all excited about what is to come.
Alexis Lynch - Student
BUT... before we could get our teeth into the special effects we had to become best friends with our fabulous new makeup kits. As we collectively “OOHH” and “AAHH” over each mascara, eyeshadow, foundation, lip colours ... Louise began her trademark hygiene drill, most of us realising the amount of bad habits we would have to brake.
Our first makeup experience was Louise’s demonstration of a more natural look, all the time showing us different application techniques. When it came time to have a go ourselves we soon discovered it was not as easy on each other as Louise made it appear. Revision on our high school art was given with the importance of highlights and shadow within makeup being explained, and by ourselves attempted.
For one afternoon we were gifted with the wisdom of Beauty Therapist Lian. We were taught the importance of skin preparation prior to makeup as well as the procedure for makeup removal meaning we were each treated to facials. (YAY!!) Combined with makeup removal we were coached on how to identify skin pigmentation and how that will effect the makeup upon each person.
Thursday was prosthetic day. Initially we all felt like we’d been thrown in the deep end, but with the guidance of Nick and Paul, our characters have begun to take shape. With our first week flying by so quickly, we are all excited about what is to come.
Alexis Lynch - Student
Friday, November 26, 2010
Prosthetic Application Day
Congratulations to all the students. You all produced some wonderful work.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Weird Science
All systems were go as we near our final weeks and lead up to major exams. We are learning new skills everyday - the measuring and making of a bald cap using a Redhead block and liquid latex.
We also worked on continuity and breakdown of a script for TV and film work. This is a very involved process and extremely important for work practices. We did a mock script breakdown and then each chose a character from our script to make up. We made notes and makeup charts, took photos, and then we each had to recreate another persons work using these notes. We had a hair lesson with the lovely Tanya, revising our skills and practicing for our practical hair exam. Our major art works were also due and we were all very amazed at the skills we each displayed, thanks to Jane’s careful tutoring in the elements of Art.
We also spent some time in the studio with Nick and Paul over these weeks doing the airbrushing of our prosthetics using various techniques with the airbrush, such as noodling. splattering and misting of the paint. We layered our colours using acrylic paints and saw our pieces come to life. Prior to air-brushing, the boys showed us how to patch any holes in our pieces using a Pros Aide and Cabosil mix, called "Bondo". There is a real science to this prosthetic business! Our pieces are now ready for the big day - the application of our foam latex pieces onto our Actors so they can come to life.
We also worked on continuity and breakdown of a script for TV and film work. This is a very involved process and extremely important for work practices. We did a mock script breakdown and then each chose a character from our script to make up. We made notes and makeup charts, took photos, and then we each had to recreate another persons work using these notes. We had a hair lesson with the lovely Tanya, revising our skills and practicing for our practical hair exam. Our major art works were also due and we were all very amazed at the skills we each displayed, thanks to Jane’s careful tutoring in the elements of Art.
We also spent some time in the studio with Nick and Paul over these weeks doing the airbrushing of our prosthetics using various techniques with the airbrush, such as noodling. splattering and misting of the paint. We layered our colours using acrylic paints and saw our pieces come to life. Prior to air-brushing, the boys showed us how to patch any holes in our pieces using a Pros Aide and Cabosil mix, called "Bondo". There is a real science to this prosthetic business! Our pieces are now ready for the big day - the application of our foam latex pieces onto our Actors so they can come to life.
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