STAGE MAKEUP CLASS PAGES 51: Veg Out and Watch Some Videos on Cosmetics in History

[This page is part of a mirror of my Canvas learning system pages I created for my Drama 112 Intro Stage Makeup class at DVC.  If you want to use this content for another Canvas class shell you can find it in Canvas Commons by searching for “Tara Maginnis” and you can download all or part of this directly into your shell with all the extra cool formatting of colored divider lines, right side embedded Giphy animations, etc. already put in, if you are working with a different system, it is ok to copy and paste from here, and then customize the pages as you need  for your classes].

You are thinking right now: “Ok…….we keep getting these.  Is there going to be a test later?  Should I take notes?  Why isn’t there a quiz right after the “Veg Out”?  What are we expected to do with these????!!!!”

Be Calm.  There is no test, no quiz, and you can skip these videos if you don’t have time for them.  These are all just cool food for thought that you may enjoy.  I find the more I learn factually about faces the better I can see them, work with them, and achieve our ideal of enlightenment.  So, I share these with you so you may do the same…. if you have the time, watch and enjoy. 

If you do not, chill, and repeat Your Mantra: There is NOTHING Wrong With My Face!

Repeat Your Mantra: "There is NOTHING Wrong With My Face!"

STAGE MAKEUP CLASS PAGES 50: Angry Aged Character Makeup

[This page is part of a mirror of my Canvas learning system pages I created for my Drama 112 Intro Stage Makeup class at DVC.  If you want to use this content for another Canvas class shell you can find it in Canvas Commons by searching for “Tara Maginnis” and you can download all or part of this directly into your shell with all the extra cool formatting of colored divider lines, right side embedded Giphy animations, etc. already put in, if you are working with a different system, it is ok to copy and paste from here, and then customize the pages as you need  for your classes].

Ice Queen Makeup

  • Apply the Angry or Negative themed Aged Character Makeup to your face (or your model’s face) based on your makeup rendering.
  • Go to the hallway with your rendering and have Tara take your photos.

Evil Queen makeup and rendering
  • If you do your makeup at home, give yourself over to doing a serious photo shoot on this project, because (in my experience), this makeup is often the one where the ideas you have been absorbing for weeks finally “click” and people do a great makeup.  Give yourself time to get some perfect clear photos from many angles (including with your rendering) and upload at least the best 3 to this assignment. Dig up a bit of impromptu costuming and/or props from around your house for best results in your home photo shoot. It is OK to have a friend take your photos, but if they do, MAKE THEM WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW!!!

Angry Aged Woman makeup
  • This is a reminder of how to get good photos of your work:

STAGE MAKEUP CLASS PAGES 49: Angry Aged Character Makeup Rendering [Assignment]

[This page is part of a mirror of my Canvas learning system pages I created for my Drama 112 Intro Stage Makeup class at DVC.  If you want to use this content for another Canvas class shell you can find it in Canvas Commons by searching for “Tara Maginnis” and you can download all or part of this directly into your shell with all the extra cool formatting of colored divider lines, right side embedded Giphy animations, etc. already put in, if you are working with a different system, it is ok to copy and paste from here, and then customize the pages as you need  for your classes].

Angry Age Makeup shown on a makeup student next to her Makeup Rendering

Definition: Makeup rendering- drawing of a makeup design one intends to execute

 Draw a color makeup rendering on one of your personalized face outline sheets, a generic outline sheet. or freehand, or with computer software of your planned Angry or Downbeat Aged Character Makeup Design. You may base your Angry or Downbeat aged character on a character from a play, or novel, or a real person.  Any character is fine so long as they use elements of one or more downbeat emotions like anger, frustration, hate, disgust, fear, sadness, etc. in the design. It is OK to alter or even abandon your design if you find there are problems once you try it on your face, but still do a rendering.  Bring your rendering out in the hallway to be photographed with your makeup.  If you do this project at home, photograph your rendering (preferably alongside your finished face makeup as shown above).  Submit the photo through the link below . Remember afterwards to also to save any research you did as well as the rendering assignment into your digital Makeup Morgue  so you build up your morgue/portfolio gradually and easily over the course of the semester.

STAGE MAKEUP CLASS PAGES 48: Watch Angry Old Age Character Makeup Video(s)! 

[This page is part of a mirror of my Canvas learning system pages I created for my Drama 112 Intro Stage Makeup class at DVC.  If you want to use this content for another Canvas class shell you can find it in Canvas Commons by searching for “Tara Maginnis” and you can download all or part of this directly into your shell with all the extra cool formatting of colored divider lines, right side embedded Giphy animations, etc. already put in, if you are working with a different system, it is ok to copy and paste from here, and then customize the pages as you need  for your classes].

This is the official class how-to video.  Again it has pieces of advice that apply to all skin colors, ages and gender identities, but you may want to watch more than this video of you don’t happen to be a middle aged white chick, and/or want to express a downbeat emotion other than anger :

Happily, I have found a number of other videos of different sorts of age makeup for different downbeat types of characters and different types of faces! Scroll down to see if you find any you think you’d like to watch!

This one is based on the “Witch” disguise of the evil Queen in Snow white which looks very predatory:

This makeup is inspired by the same Disney character:

and yes, a third makeup inspired by the same animated character from Snow White:

This seems to be a nice character with a very sad looking face:

This makeup is kind of attractive looking, yet emphasizes a look of disapproval:

More sad than angry:

Woman does a great Angry Scrooge with a false nose:

Not actually a tutorial, but an inspiring slideshow of all the old ladies in a production of The Madwoman of Chaillot:

This one combines Age makeup with Female to Male Transformation!:

STAGE MAKEUP CLASS PAGES 47: Activities: Angry Old Age Character

[This page is part of a mirror of my Canvas learning system pages I created for my Drama 112 Intro Stage Makeup class at DVC.  If you want to use this content for another Canvas class shell you can find it in Canvas Commons by searching for “Tara Maginnis” and you can download all or part of this directly into your shell with all the extra cool formatting of colored divider lines, right side embedded Giphy animations, etc. already put in, if you are working with a different system, it is ok to copy and paste from here, and then customize the pages as you need  for your classes].

DVC Student in Angry Queen makeup
DVC Student holding her rendering next to her face
Ice Queen Makeup

This week typically is where most students have their big “Ah ha!” moment:

  • You will watch some Angry Aged Character Videos.
  • You will look at your face in the mirror while making Angry or Miserable faces and sketch your first color rendering on one of your face outline sheets for your Angry Age Character Rendering.
  • You will apply makeup to your face to make your Angry Aged Character Makeup.
  • You will have Tara photograph your makeup and rendering, or…
    • You will scrounge in your house to “costume” your character a bit.
    • You will do a short photo shoot to get fabulous photos of your makeup & rendering.
  • You will upload your photos to the makeup and rendering assignment pages.
F2022 DVC Makeup Class Angry Age Makeup slide show

STAGE MAKEUP CLASS PAGES 46: Week 5 Schedule

[This page is part of a mirror of my Canvas learning system pages I created for my Drama 112 Intro Stage Makeup class at DVC.  If you want to use this content for another Canvas class shell you can find it in Canvas Commons by searching for “Tara Maginnis” and you can download all or part of this directly into your shell with all the extra cool formatting of colored divider lines, right side embedded Giphy animations, etc. already put in, if you are working with a different system, it is ok to copy and paste from here, and then customize the pages as you need  for your classes].


Fill in Date: Group 1: Happy Aged Character makeup rendering due at beginning of class. Happy Aged Character Makeup, completed in class.  Group 2: View Happy Aged Character Video.

HOMEWORK: COLOR IN A RENDERING FOR YOUR ANGRY OLD AGE CHARACTER MAKEUP

•Fill in Date: Group 1: Watch Angry Aged Character Video. Group 2: Happy Aged Character makeup rendering due at beginning of class. Happy Aged Character Makeup, completed in class.


STAGE MAKEUP CLASS PAGES 45: Learning Objectives: Angry Age Week

[This page is part of a mirror of my Canvas learning system pages I created for my Drama 112 Intro Stage Makeup class at DVC.  If you want to use this content for another Canvas class shell you can find it in Canvas Commons by searching for “Tara Maginnis” and you can download all or part of this directly into your shell with all the extra cool formatting of colored divider lines, right side embedded Giphy animations, etc. already put in, if you are working with a different system, it is ok to copy and paste from here, and then customize the pages as you need  for your classes].

This Week’s Learning Objective:Outcomes we will use to get there:
Learn how to create downbeat character makeup designs.
Learn how to plan out makeup in advance
Create extreme downbeat facial expressions.
Draw a rendering where age lines emphasize those facial expressions
Copy the rendering plan in makeup on a face.

Is it Really that Easy Again………?                                                                                              I Guess So!                              

Two surreal eyeball-headed men talking

STAGE MAKEUP CLASS PAGES 44: Congratulations on making it to the end of Week 4!

[This page is part of a mirror of my Canvas learning system pages I created for my Drama 112 Intro Stage Makeup class at DVC.  If you want to use this content for another Canvas class shell you can find it in Canvas Commons by searching for “Tara Maginnis” and you can download all or part of this directly into your shell with all the extra cool formatting of colored divider lines, right side embedded Giphy animations, etc. already put in, if you are working with a different system, it is ok to copy and paste from here, and then customize the pages as you need  for your classes].


Infinite Loop of Face Enlightenment!

By this time you know what you did.  So I will spare both of us a recitation of it all, and just give you your eyeball delighting visual reward:


fast slideshow of faces with modernist art face painting

STAGE MAKEUP CLASS PAGES 43: Veg Out and Watch Some Videos on Face Blindness

[This page is part of a mirror of my Canvas learning system pages I created for my Drama 112 Intro Stage Makeup class at DVC.  If you want to use this content for another Canvas class shell you can find it in Canvas Commons by searching for “Tara Maginnis” and you can download all or part of this directly into your shell with all the extra cool formatting of colored divider lines, right side embedded Giphy animations, etc. already put in, if you are working with a different system, it is ok to copy and paste from here, and then customize the pages as you need  for your classes].

You are thinking right now: “Ok…….we keep getting these.  Is there going to be a test later?  Should I take notes?  Why isn’t there a quiz right after the “Veg Out”?  What are we expected to do with these????!!!!”

Be Calm.  There is no test, no quiz, and you can skip these videos if you don’t have time for them.  These are all just cool food for thought that you may enjoy.  I find the more I learn factually about faces the better I can see them, work with them, and achieve our ideal of enlightenment.  So, I share these with you so you may do the same…. if you have the time, watch and enjoy.  If you do not, chill, and repeat Your Mantra:

There is NOTHING Wrong With My Face!

Repeat Your Mantra: "There is NOTHING Wrong With My Face!"
Face Merge animation
Repeat Your Mantra: "There is NOTHING Wrong With My Face!"

There is a spectrum on this, and the brain ability to recognize famous faces and to recognize people you know are actually two different things.  You can for instance be a 10 at one form of face recognition, and a 3 at another….

STAGE MAKEUP CLASS PAGES 42: Happy Aged Character Makeup

[This page is part of a mirror of my Canvas learning system pages I created for my Drama 112 Intro Stage Makeup class at DVC.  If you want to use this content for another Canvas class shell you can find it in Canvas Commons by searching for “Tara Maginnis” and you can download all or part of this directly into your shell with all the extra cool formatting of colored divider lines, right side embedded Giphy animations, etc. already put in, if you are working with a different system, it is ok to copy and paste from here, and then customize the pages as you need  for your classes].

Makeup of a nice middle aged cowboy character
Animated gif of a real old man with a happy face
  • Apply your happy or upbeat aged character makeup to your or model’s face as per your makeup rendering.
  • Have Tara photograph it in the hallway.
    • If you are doing this at home, try  to dress yourself from the neck up in stuff you have found that works for your character. 
    • Do a photo shoot where you take lots of nice photos of your makeup, including ones where you hold your face up next to your rendering. It is OK to have a friend take your photos, but if they do, MAKE THEM WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW!!!
  • Post the rendering & face image along with just the rendering image to the rendering assignment.
  • Post at least 3 of your best makeup images to the link below. 
  • Here is a reminder of how to take good photos at home:

Costume Design & Teaching