Body Painting Party: DC Comics

Body painting is not something that we get to do very often, so sometimes I like to some fun things to keep in practice!  Early tonight, I organized a little body painting party with some of our body painter friends: Donald, Victoria, Alli, and Angel. We got some models together, and painted in the theme of DC Comics super heroes and super villains!

In the end we came out with Fire, Starfire, Poison Ivy, Wonder Woman, and a female Aquaman (Aquawoman?).  However, since most of the models were our friends (and topless), it was a agreed that no photographic evidence would be posted. Everyone had a great time, though, and we're already planning the next body painting party with an Alice in Wonderland theme!

Awesome FX Makeup Class!

This past Monday, senior Scare makeup artists Donald, Jenna, and Tomey joined me in teaching a two-and-a-half hour Introduction to Scare Makeup and Special FX course at Paul Mitchell the School in North Austin; it was an awesome time, and it seemed like a rousing success; something like 60 people showed up to take the class!

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The school was kind enough to donate the teaching space to us, and the Paul Mitchell instructors and administrators were the nicest bunch and extra-helpful in working with us to get it all set up.  Some of them even stayed and took the workshop with us!

We tried to cover all the basics of some of the techniques we use most frequently: latex and appliances, tips and tricks for airbrushing and zombie makeup, and stage blood creation. The combination of demonstration and class participation seemed to work out really well.

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Everyone on our team had a lot of fun, and I hope that everyone that took the class did as well.  And as a bonus, we raised a handsome sum to benefit Scare for a Cure, and we even gained a few new volunteers!  Hopefully we'll do it again sometime soon, and perhaps we'll offer more specialized workshops as well.