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“Pool Noodle Wig” Project
Assignment: First watch the video at Pool Noodle “Wig” Tutorial by Tara
- Read the tutorial down below these steps for an 18th century “Pouf” wig from pool noodle and hair curler foam onto a baseball hat base.
- Make a lightweight wig/headdress of your design out of any variety of foam you have on hand. You can also use craft foam, expanding foam, mattress pad foam, polystyrene bead board (usually incorrectly called styrofoam), actual Styrofoam, or insulation board foam (aka “Pink foam”, “Blue foam”) Ethafoam or EVA foam, or foam core. The idea is to make something big, weird, fun and lightweight at relatively low cost. You may decorate the surface with paint, fabric, glitter, fake fur or any other insanity that occurs to you.
- Check out these pins for inspiration: Foam Wigs
- Check out this Youtube playlist: Foam Wigs & Sculpture Tutorials and this company’s tutorials: FollyFoam
The Tutorial: Steps for making an 1770s Marie Antoinette “Pouf” wig from a $1 baseball cap, 3 pool noodles, some foam curlers and hot melt glue (on a cool setting).
You will need:
- Rubber coated work gloves like these.
- Low-temp or dual temp glue gun that can be set to “low”
- Clear multi-temp melt glue sticks
- 2-3 pool noodles
- Package of yellow foam curlers
- Baseball cap
- Skinny sharp snap-off utility knife like these.
- Craft Scissors
- Some random fake flowers, ribbons, decorations, etc to taste (and for convenient hiding of mistakes.)
- Making of the Wig: Begin by de-billing a baseball cap with your craft scissors leaving about 1/8″ of the brim in place for added hat stability. Do NOT cut into the stitching that sandwiches the bill between the internal headband facing and the front of the cap. It is easiest to avoid this by doing the cut while the hat is held upside down.
2. Lo-temp hot glue the bill down the back of the cap by either side of the back adjustment flap to make an adjustable “wig cap” base. NOTE: Hi Temp Glue will slow down this entire process, make it extra difficult and make for less satisfactory results. If you only have a Hi temp gun, try plugging in, and unplugging repeatedly to get a lower temperature, or stick your gun into a lamp dimmer and turn down the heat that way.
3. Slice half a noodle into lengthwise thirds with a thin utility knife, extended out 2″. Do remember to wear your non-dominant hand glove for all this.
4. Shave the ends down (with the knife extended 3″) as shown.
5. Low temp glue the shaved ends of the 1/3 noodle pieces to the center front of the de-billed cap. Do remember to wear your non-dominant hand glove for all this so you are less likely to get burns.
6. Check the back of the “wig” and see where you can taper the noodles towards the center back. Here the center noodle strip is shaved to the length needed to make the height of the “pouf” curve.
7. Then the two side 1/3rd noodles are glued together on their edges to form a wide strip. (Links to an external site.)Then the strip is shaved and glued to the former “bill” that has previously been made into a back piece. (Don’t glue the piece to the little adjuster strip that is in the back gap as this prevents adjusting the wig for comfort, and makes the back of the wig dimple, and be even warmer than it is normally.) Then the center strip is glued on top of the broad strip.
8. Begin adding the remaining parts of the 1/3 strips and the 1/4 strips to the sides of the wig to complete the “pouf”. Tuck ends to the inside of the original band of strips as you go from the top down.
9. After you get 1/2 way down, roughing out the basic shape of the pouf, you will need to add smaller shaved bits to the sides to bridge the gap from the edge of the cap to the middle of the pouf. This is where it really helps to have an historical reference to help you decide the way to sub-slice those pieces and place them into the design. This is really just a matter of eyeballing the gaps, slicing, gluing and filling in as best you can. Each wig is a little different around here depending on height and overall design, so I can’t run you through the “steps” since they are just random, go as looks best, filler. Remember also, if you know your design is going to have curls covering a section, this is where you can fill in with the ugly little leftovers of the noodle for putting in structure that lies beneath like lathe in a plaster wall.
10. Here I add bits that go down over the “sideburn” area of the face. If you ever want to make one of these with a more realistic look on the hairline, after completing the wig to the level I have done, then slice lots of tiny strips of the foam, and carefully glue (with Ultra-Cool melt glue & Gun) them to the edge of the wig while it is sitting on the actor’s head, covering and blending over the natural hairline. DO NOT get glue in the actor’s hair. While Ultra-cool glue wont burn them, pulling off the wig if it is glued into their hair will please them less than a bikini-wax.
Note: You are not hallucinating by the way, there are two different colored yellow pool noodles in this wig. It keeps the look more interesting, but you must be careful to use your noodle colors symmetrically so you won’t have a wig that is mainly one color, with a clot of a different color in just one area. Blend the different color throughout in symmetrical streaks for best results, or use the lighter color for the outer most “high” points like a highlight.
11: Now for the really fun part. (Not a joke, this is fun and easy unless your blade is dull.) Do remember to wear your non-dominant hand glove for all this. Set your knife at 1.5″-2″ depending on noodle thickness, then spiral cut a curl into a section of noodle. Do this by holding the knfe steady, and twirling the noodle into it. This is not only safer, but easier. If you are having trouble doing this, the blade has got dull. Snap off 2″ of blade and move down to a section of fresh blade and it should cut easier.
12: Stick on some curls:
13: Put in more filler where the bigger curls will hide the rough “lathe” structure:
14. Spiral cut your big curls:
16. OK, weirdly this is the tough part: Pull out your bag of little foam curlers. Remove them from the plastic bits, and carefully snip them into spiral ringlets with your craft scissors. They will fight you, but don’t try the utility knife unless you want lots of cuts in you, and really nasty ones in the curlers. Just slowly snip them into a spiral with the scissors.
17. Now you can use them as filler in between gaps in the big curls where needed, where your design requires small curls, and in places that are looking a bit “off” where a curl would effectively hide a flaw.
18. Inevitably, some place will visually need either disguise because of some minor visual “ooops!”, or simply need visual punctuation with flowers, ribbons or other decorations. Glue them on as your final step.
Optional Step on The Finished Wig. Note you also see on here a whiff of colored hair spray which I used in my CoCo 2014 demo on Dollar Store Costume Accessories in order to not poison my class with using real Spray Paint indoors. Using a little bit of carefully applied spray paint “shadows” in orange or pink to a foam wig gives it that extra dimension on stage, and can stop the color of the noodles looking so flat.
Steps for an Ethafoam wig on a buckram base for a Reagan impersonator in The Wedding Singer:
Cyndi Lauper Ethafoam Wig from DVC’s Wedding Singer by Eden
Free Costumer’s Manifesto Beta Book Part 4, Chapter 3 “Art”
- PDFs
- ManifestoBook_Chap3_pt01_Rendering
- ManifestoBook_Chap3_pt02_DrawTrix
- ManifestoBook_Chap3_pt03_StrangeSuits
Free DISTANCE EDUCATION RESOURCES FOR COSTUME & MAKEUP CLASSES
I, like nearly everyone teaching in the US, and many around the world, started switching my classes in mid (Spring 2020) semester from face to face classes to trying to make them distance learning classes without much warning. Costume and Makeup classes in theatre are rather spectacularly ill suited to this sort of conversion. However, I have a bit more resources built up because I have flirted with Distance Education before. And I have been making all I can for my own classes as fast as I can. So, what follows are links to a bunch of hopefully useful stuff for you to use in your newly online costume and makeup classes:
Video Lessons for Teaching Makeup Class (full semester of how-tos)
I also maintain Multiple YouTube playlists for my own classes of good videos for typical Makeup class projects like Age, Animal, Kabuki, Drag, FX etc. plus tutorials for dark, medium and light skin tones, makeup videos in Spanish, etc, so students can easily find a variety of tutorials to help them learn what they need to know. You can just surf through these ready-made compilations and pick the videos you want to embed in your class homework pages.
More About Drama 112 Stage Makeup, Spring & Fall, Diablo Valley College
My Stage Makeup class pages in the Canvas Learning system can be found and auto-uploaded to your Canvas shell in their entirety on Canvas Commons, but are also mirrored here at STAGE MAKEUP CLASS PAGES in case you are using a different system than Canvas. You can copy and paste bits or all of this into your system and spare yourself the extra work.
COSTUME CLASS
Conveniently, I made a free textbook in 2009 for my Costume Class which covers both Costume Design and Costume Construction which is full color downloadable and printable. It has a bunch of How-To sections that can be broken out into take home class projects. I have also made a lot of class how tos and other handouts you can send to your distance ed students:
This was a handout and video I made for the face to face class in Spring 2020 semester so I could split the class into two rotating groups so only half the class would be sewing at once while the other got how tos and history from Youtube and me to prep them for the face to face sewing/drawing/costume crafts session for their next class.
You can also see here how I put together a Playlist of existing Youtube videos plus made a bunch of short connecting videos for my students to show them in the first week of the 2020 lockdown: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNQBavWhrKQxqAYAoW50eGOJ3JLyb3zch
Marie Antoinette Pool Noodle Wig Project Page
More PDF Handouts you can use for your Costume Classes:
- Costume Terminology – Fabric
- Costume-Terminology-2-Events-and-More
- Costume Terminology
- Costume Terminology – Patterns
- Ruffled Apron Project
- History Board Project Handout
- Lace Edged Mob Cap Instructions
- Costume Movie Project
- Pocket Squares TaraWriting
- RegencyBucketBag
- MedievalPouch
- RingPurseInstructions
- “Looking Hot in a Cold Climate” (Banyan Project History & Patterns)
- Pattern Making 101 Costume Class Handout
- Phone Camera Enhancements FA18 DVC
- Evil Mutant Fairy Plastics 2: Torqueing Tyvek by Tara Maginnis
- PDF of Handout – Evil Mutant Fairy Plastics 3: Warped Wings by Tara Maginnis
- PDF Handout for making Evil Mutant Fairy Plastics 4: Creepy Claw Project by Tara Maginnis
- Evil Mutant Fairy Plastics 5: Electric Wigs Handout by Janice Gartin and Tara Maginnis
- Onstage Magic Costume Changes CoCo2016 Compressed
- Rigging Costume Change Handout CoCo2016
- Rigging Onstage Instant Costume Changes for Magical Effects
- Photographing Your Makeup Class
- Makeup Photos How To
- Costume Terminology 1 Workers
As you can see above I also have posted the PDF handouts for most of my conference presentations which you can use as well:
This presentation I converted into another Youtube Video for my class to use to learn how to Distress costumes at home after Spring break 2020:
I also broke out a section of that textbook with the parts that relate to Distressing to make another PDF handout: Spray-Dyeing-Jesus-and-Other-Distressing-Thoughts-excerpt
Drama 113 Costume Design, Spring, Diablo Valley College
I will keep posting stuff here as I create or resurrect it from my old Costumer’s Manifesto site…
Distressing Matters
Various Handouts for Students in My Costume Classes over the years
Feel free to print and use or adapt for your own costume or sewing classes!
Additional Explanation Of Hand Sewing Stitches for Regency Reticule Project 
Additional Explanation Of Hand Sewing Stitches for Regency Reticule Project
The Cutter’s Practical Guide
Is a series of books by W. D. F. Vincent that covered tailor’s pattern drafting for all sorts of garments in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
When my Costumer’s Manifesto Site was working I had a bunch of these (not all) online (and hope to do so again), but in the meantime, all the parts I posted in PDF form are still available online at assorted sites at these outside links:
the Victorian Patterns Board has all of them listed by Volume on this page.
Hathi Trust link to nicer scan of the the University of California PDF of Cutter’s Guide volume on Children’s Clothing
Hathi Trust link to the University of California PDF of The Cutter’s practical guide to cutting and making shirts, undergarments, collars, and specialty clothing for various occupations
Very good scan of the Volume on Women’s Clothing
Archive.org copy of: Vincent’s systems of cutting all kinds of tailor-made garments : part 1 : dealing with the cutting of various styles of trousers, breeches, knickers, pantaloons, leggings and gaiters, and waistcoats 1903 by Vincent, W. D. F (William D. F.) 1860-1925
Siam Costumes has a bunch of these, as well as other tailoring, costume, and needlework copyright expired pdfs at “Cutter’s Guides” pages. Click on “Pattern Guides Female” and “Pattern Guides Male” to find loads of volumes of WDF Vincent’s Cutter’s Guide, including British Military Uniforms, Clerical Dress, Lounge & Sportswear, Livery, etc.
W D F Vincent “The Cutter’s Practical Guide” Part 10 – Waistcoats (3rd Edition)
Archive.org copy of 1890 volume on Women’s Garments
Wikisource 1898 Volume 1 on Juvenile & Youth Garments
The Group, The Victorian Sweatshop Forum has a large number of the volumes available to registered members of the forum, so if you have a strong interest join and go to their Cutter’s Guide Files
The Tailor’s Handbook of Useful Information on Social, Literary, Historical, Practical and Scientific Subjects (also by W.D.F. Vincent)
About The Vincent Square (Tailor’s Ruler)
Also co-authored by W. D. F. Vincent: The sewing machine : an historical and practical exposition of the sewing machine from its inception to the present time : containing explanations showing the modern methods of garment making applied to all kinds of tailor-made garments c.1910, by Lyons, Lewis; Allen, T. W; Vincent, W. D. F. (William D. F.), 1860-1926; Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture. NcD
DRAMA-112 Stage Makeup Spring 2019 Course Syllabus
DRAMA-112 Stage Makeup Spring 2019
Section Number: 1332
Canvas Site: https://dvc.instructure.com/courses/37608
Instructor: Tara Maginnis, Ph.D., Cell phone: 415 272 5157, email: thecostumersmanifesto@yahoo.com or Tara@costumes.org or tmaginnis520@dvc.edu. My design portfolio is at http://taramaginnis.com On Facebook I am “Tara Maginnis” and you may friend me if that amuses you.
Class Photo Page: https://taramaginnisclasses.shutterfly.com Photos that I take of you in class will be posted there, where you can download or print out the images. I copy-left my photos so you may use them any way you wish, however, for this reason let me know if you do NOT want photos of you or your work put online. I will still take photos of you for grading, but I will not post them if you do not want your images set free in the world in this way.
Hashtag: You may wish to tag any photos or video you take in class with #DVCMakeupClass to help your fellow-students to find them online.
Class Time & Place: Tuesday & Thursday 9:35 am-11:00 am in the PAC-3 (Makeup Room & Men’s Dressing Room).
Drama Department website: (For play schedule dates and tickets) http://dvcdrama.net
Office Hours: Tuesdays & Thursdays 1:30-2:00pm in PA121 (Cubicle off of Green Room with giant wooden scissors) You can also find me during most of the time between 11-1pm and 2-7 on Tuesdays and Thursdays 1-5 Fridays in the Costume Studio in PA1 or The Trap Room (Costume Storage) PA6, or the Makeup Room PA3. (wander around and look for me and/or phone my cell # listed above.)
| Catalog Course Description: DRAMA-112 Stage Makeup Department: Performing Arts Division: Applied and Fine Arts Units: 3.00 Grade Code: Student choice Repeatability: 0 Number of Hours Per Semester Lecture: 54.00 Laboratory: 0.00 Activity: 0.00 This course studies the aesthetics, materials, and procedures of stage makeup involving: corrective and aging techniques, latex and derma wax for witches and fairies, character makeup for a variety of historical periods and genres, the creation of animals and monsters, and the construction of beards and mustaches. |
Instructional methods: Because this class is usually larger than the makeup classroom can fit, the class will be divided into two groups staggered to rotate in the class space for much of the semester. Students in each group will begin by viewing a video demo in the men’s dressing room next door, where my virtual self will show you how to do a style of theatrical makeup. At the next class meeting you will spend time in the makeup room working on your own face (or that of a volunteer you bring to class) and getting help from the real “live” me in how to do the assigned makeup. Other classes are done in a single large group where indicated in the calendar.
If You Miss an Assignment: What To Do: If you miss a day in class, or have a planned event (going to KCACTF, your cousin’s wedding, etc.) that will make you miss a future event, go on to Canvas to the weekly Module for the lost time and watch the how to videos asap. You can do the project at DVC when I (Tara) am here and I’ll take photos of you, or you may do the project at home. If you do the latter, please watch the short video on Canvas, taking your own photos to help you get the best pictures possible.
Videos: If you miss a video demo, please hasten to see it before you get behind. You may come into the costume studio during Tara’s hours listed above and ask to watch the disk in one of the dressing rooms, or you can download a lesson or lessons at home online at the provided links on Canvas, or you can also purchase DVD copies of the Theatrical Makeup Design Interactive video demonstrations we show in class at http://TheatricalDesign.com
Tickets to DVC shows: Either viewing or taking part in the two shows of the current semester are requirements, you can purchase tickets for these shows through the bookstore, box office, or ideally, sign up on the volunteer board in the Greenroom and serve as ushers to a performance to see it for free.
Book: A Guide for Makeup by Robin and Stuart Carlson, 1982 available as a free PDF at https://archive.org/details/guideformakeup00cars depending on your learning needs I can also assign, loan and/or recommend alternate books to help you with study in special areas, or for better academic understanding. If you have a special need for word-based learning, step by step photo how-to info, or are mainly interested in sfx makeup or body painting, chances are I have a book that will help you.
| Objectives/Student Learning Outcomes |
| DRAMA-112: Stage Makeup A. Describe the steps used in makeup for a variety of characters, types, ages, and historical periods. B. Demonstrate proficiency in make-up application. C. Identify the various types of makeup commonly used in theater and demonstrate techniques to apply stage makeup materials. D. Analyze a visual characterization through makeup design. E. Create a makeup design for a specific production. |
| DRAMA-112 Stage Makeup Minimum Required Materials: Full-size deluxe crème (oil-based) student theatrical make-up kit. Every major theatrical makeup company makes excellent deluxe student makeup kits. They cost $60-90. If you already have bought a full-size student theatrical makeup kit like the ones required, feel free to use it, the choice of brand is immaterial to this class, though Ben Nye is my personal favorite. Kits like these are available at the DVC Bookstore by request at the counter, in person at Encore Theatrical Supply in Pleasanton or at Kryolan in San Francisco, or ordered online from many suppliers including Ben Nye, Mehron, Graftobian, & Kryolan • https://www.stagemakeuponline.com • https://www.mehron.com • https://us.kryolan.com Label all the parts of your kit with your name or initials. Note: If you are allergic or hyper sensitive to oil-based makeup you may substitute a water-based kit like Mehron All-Pro Starblend Theatrical Makeup Kit, or Ben Nye Theatrical Cake Makeup Kit. However, these kits are more difficult to use, and sometimes more expensive, so do not do this on a mere whim. 4 or more flat nylon/takelon angled or straight “shader” brushes about 1/4”–1/2” wide, labeled with your name, for having a brush for each color you use. Note: You can usually get this type of brush in a package with other inexpensive brushes at big art and/ or crafts stores like Michaels or Jo-Ann. By going to their web site coupon pages before you go to the store : • http://www.michaels.com/coupon • http://www.joann.com/coupon you can usually get either a 40% or 50% off coupon that will make such a packet of brushes very inexpensive. Michaels.com also sells a good (no discount) $5 bag of suitable brushes both in store and online at http://www.michaels.com 2 or more packages of makeup remover towelettes labeled with your name for getting makeup off your face. You can get this at any Dollar store unless you have special skin needs. Keep them fresh by “burping” and resealing them each time you remove a towel. Huggies Baby wipes are also OK. A jar of cold cream labeled with your name for brush cleaning. $ store. 2 or more wash cloths or ripped up towel pieces labeled with your name for brush cleaning. White ones’ work best. A portable mirror for doing makeup in impromptu locations, labeled with your name. A $ store is your friend again: it is easy to make one by transposing an easel back from a picture frame to a same sized framed mirror. A small container to hold water, like a recycled yogurt cup, can or folding cup, labeled with your name. Pull something out of a recycle bin. A binder to hold your makeup renderings, your research images, and photos of your work for the Morgue/Portfolio project. A container like a tool box, large cosmetic bag, Zip-lockor even a cardboard shoe box, labeled with your name. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Pencil sharpener & colored pencils (or crayons) for doing your makeup renderings. Small scissors for cutting crepe hair. A big safety pin for slicing cuts in scar wax. Dental floss for removing nose and scar wax. You can, and likely should, plump up your kits with any interesting and/or cheap Halloween or street makeup you already have, or find cheaply during the semester. Fall is an especially good season for picking up neat stuff like this at Hot Topic, CVS, Claire’s, Icing, etc. and at big box retail stores and “Dollar” stores in the “seasonal” departments in October. Spring is less so, but not empty of opportunity. |
Disability Statements: “Students who require alternative formats for course materials or adaptive equipment because of a specific disability can request them through the Disability Support Services office. The High Tech Center in LC-‐107 is an adaptive technology computer lab available for students with disabilities and is open Monday-Thursday from 9am-‐5pm, and Fridays from 9am-‐1pm. Please contact Carrie Million in LC 112 or at 925‐685-1230 ext. 2553 for more information”. (You can also ask me for any sort of help or materials you need if you have a learning difficulty that I can possibly fix for your needs. For example, if you have a need for a quiet space for sensory overload or anxiety, you can go to the “Welcome to Vienna” storage room in the back of the PA1 costume studio & close the door and/or turn off lights. -Tara).
Students who wear Glasses: Some students who wear glasses (other than reading glasses) find the mirrors in our makeup room are inadequate for clear vision without glasses. Other students also sometimes find this to be true. If you wear glasses, and are having trouble with our mirrors, you can try my standing magnifying mirror with built in light and/or my two pairs of “makeup glasses” to help you, before deciding which of these types of vision aid to buy at your local drugstore for home use.
Students with Beards and/or skin problems: If at any time, for any reason, you want to avoid doing the assigned makeup on your own face, you may bring in a volunteer whom you have recruited for the purpose. Some students have elected to do this for a full semester with one volunteer, or intermittently with several. If you already have a beard you will need to plan on finding a volunteer on which to apply a beard for your group’s Beard Makeup Day, or apply crepe hair to another part of your face or body to do the project.
Grading: Grading is based on a system of points given for successful completion of assignments.
Evaluation: Project assignments will be graded based on Completion (Is the project really done, or have important steps been left unfinished? Did you make an honest effort to do the assignment as described, or have you ignored the criteria?)
Definitions:
- Rendering- drawing of a design which one intends to execute.
- Makeup rendering- drawing of a makeup design one intends to execute
- Morgue- an organized file of clippings
- Makeup Morgue– an organized collection of clippings, pictures and old renderings to aid in inspiration for makeup design.
- Portfolio– An organized picture-book of your work in a visual medium
- Makeup Portfolio– An organized picture-book of your work in Makeup.
Combined Makeup Morgue/Portfolio Project: Throughout the semester, gather images from magazines, books and/or online that you find inspiring or useful for research, on the makeup research topics we cover. Save them in your binder along with your makeup renderings and photos of your completed projects and the binder may be turned in for 30 pts of credit during the final exam period. You will get the binder back as soon as it is graded, the very same day. You may also do this project in alternate electronic forms such as web page portfolios, Pinterest boards, PowerPoint presentations or organized file folders that I can view.
Student Code of Conduct: Learn your new Mantra:
“There is nothing wrong with my face.”
While a makeup class is an appropriate place to discuss age, race, disease, genetics, smoking, drinking, gender, acne, tattoos, body issues and lots of other hot button topics as they relate to the human face, that is not a license to give anyone a hard time about any of these issues. Please treat this class as a supportive therapy group that can help you learn to accept, and revel in, your face. Help your classmates do the same.
Assignment calendar:
Week 1:
TuesdayJanuary 29: Pick up Syllabus. Explanations about makeup kits, making a list of needed color kits for bookstore & taking class “mugshot” photos. Homework: Make funny faces in the mirror, today and every day thereafter.
Thursday January 31: Watch the Short Makeup Videos in the Make-up room and Men’s Dressing Room. then do Practice Drawing Makeup Renderings on Face Outline Sheets
Week 2:
Tuesday February 5: Group 1: View Your Self Only More So and “Corrective” Videos in the Men’s Dressing Room. Group 2: Watch The Human Face Part 1 and do the quiz on Canvas online
Thursday February 7: Group 1: Bring in evidence of research on “Corrective” makeup. “Corrective” Makeup, completed in class. Group 2: View Your Self Only More So and “Corrective” Videos in the Men’s Dressing Room.
Week 3:
Tuesday February 12: Group 1: View Aged Self video, Group 2: Bring in evidence of research on “Corrective” makeup. “Corrective” Makeup, completed in class.
Thursday February 14:Group 1: Aged Self Makeup, completed in class. Bring in evidence of research on Real Aged Faces. Group 2: View Aged Self Video If possible, bring in photos of parents/grandparents or other older relatives next class.
Week 4: SPECIAL NOTE KCACTF ATTENDEES SPEAK TO TARA ABOUT YOUR OPTIONS FOR MAKING UP ASSIGNMENTS FOR THIS WEEK!
Tuesday February 19: Group 1: View Happy Aged Character Video. Group 2: Aged Self Makeup, completed in class. Bring in evidence of research on Real Aged Faces.
Thursday February 21: 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.
Week 5:
Tuesday February 26: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.
Thursday February 28:Group 1: Angry Aged Character makeup rendering due at beginning of class. Angry Aged Character Makeup, completed in class. Group 2: View Angry Aged Character Video.
Week 6:
Tuesday March 5:Group 1: Watch Cuts & Bruises Videos Group 2: Angry Aged Character makeup rendering due at beginning of class. Angry Aged Character Makeup, completed in class.
Thursday March 7:Group 1: Bring in evidence of research on cuts, bruises and injuries. Do freeform Cuts & Bruises Makeup, (no rendering required). Group 2: Watch Cuts & Bruises Videos.
Week 7: TECH WEEK FOR PETER AND THE STARCATCHER
Tuesday March 12:Group 1: Watch Wax nose video. Group 2: Bring in evidence of research on cuts, bruises and injuries. Do freeform Cuts & Bruises Makeup, (no rendering required).
Thursday March 14: Group 1: Wax Nose Makeup rendering, Makeup using wax nose or forehead, completed in class. Group 2: Watch Nose Wax Video
Week 8:
Tuesday March 19: Group 1: Watch Gothic Horror Video. Group 2: Wax Nose Makeup rendering. Makeup using wax nose or forehead, completed in class.
Thursday March 21: Group 1: Bring in evidence of research on Gothic, Horror Movie, or Silent film makeup. Do Gothic Horror Makeup and Gothic Horror Rendering. Group 2: Watch Gothic Horror Video.
Week 9:
Tuesday March 26: Group 1: View Beard Video. Group 2: Bring in evidence of research on Gothic, Horror Movie, or Silent film makeup. Do Gothic Horror Makeup, and Gothic Horror Rendering.
Explanation: Famous Guys in Beards. Do a makeup design based on a well-known image of a guy in a beard/moustache. The best folks to pick are historical and newsworthy ones where you can get lots of images like Lenin, Darwin, Charles I, Frederick Douglas, Emperor Meiji, Dickens, Che Guevara, King Faisal, Osama Bin Laden, etc. or the Unabomber, members of ZZ Top, Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak.
Thursday March 28: Group 1: Bring in multiple images of a famous guy with beard/moustache. Beard Makeup Rendering, Makeup using a crepe hair beard replicating the aforementioned bearded guy. Group 2: View The Human Face Part 2 and do the quiz on Canvas online
SPRING BREAK: APRIL 1-7 No Classes!
Week 10:
Tuesday April 9:Group 1: View The Human Face Part 1 and do the quiz on Canvas online. Group 2: View Beard Video.
Thursday April 11:Group 1: View Kabuki Video Group 2: Bring in multiple images of a famous guy with beard/moustache. Beard Makeup Rendering, Makeup using a crepe hair beard replicating the aforementioned bearded guy.
Week 11:
Tuesday April 16: Group 1: “Kabuki” Makeup: Bring in evidence of research on mask/makeup source material. and a makeup rendering Kabuki or Chinese opera or Alaskan/African/Asian Mask makeup completed in class. Group 2: View Kabuki Video
Explanation: Kabuki/Chinese Opera/ Native Mask: find a non-naturalistic face design from a non-western theatrical tradition, including, but not limited to Alaska Native masks, African ritual makeup, Balinese dance drama, Chinese Opera, Maori Tattoos, Kabuki Kumidori, etc. Make copies of your source material. Draw a makeup rendering that adapts the design to fit you or your model’s face using primarily 2-D makeup without extensive prosthetics.
Thursday April 18:Group 1: Watch Drag Video. Group 2: “Kabuki” Makeup: Bring in evidence of research on mask/makeup source material, and a makeup rendering, and Kabuki or Chinese opera or Alaskan/African/Asian Mask makeup completed in class.
Week 12:
Tuesday April 23:.Group 1: Bring in evidence of research on Drag and/or Glamour makeup source material. Rendering of Drag Makeup due at beginning of class, Drag makeup completed in class. Group 2: Watch Drag Video.
Thursday April 25: Group 1: Watch Animal Video. Group 2: Bring in evidence of research on Drag and/or Glamour makeup source material. Rendering of Drag Makeup due at beginning of class, Drag makeup completed in class.
Week 13: TECH WEEK FOR OUR LADY OF 121st STREET
Tuesday April 30: Group 1: Bring in evidence of research on your chosen animal and any makeup examples or interpretations of it you may wish to inspire you. Animal makeup rendering due at beginning of class, Animal makeup completed in class. Group 2: Watch Animal video.
Explanation: Animal: Research a real animal face (no Hello Kitty or Happy Bunny or super simple cartoon critters). Gather together source material and print it out. Adapt the animal face into a stylized makeup design for your face. Do the makeup.
Thursday May 2: Group 1: View The Human Face Pt. 2 and do the quiz on Canvas online. Group 2: Bring in evidence of research on your chosen animal and any makeup examples or interpretations of it you may wish to inspire you. Animal makeup rendering due at beginning of class, Animal makeup completed in class.
Week 14:
Tuesday May 7: Both Groups: Meet in the Commons (good weather) or Cafeteria (bad weather) with your kits for Outdoor Face Painting Day 1: Zombie Walk Theme
Explanation: Commons/Cafeteria Face Painting Days. Bring your kit and gather all the things you may need but won’t have when you leave our makeup room and get a gig doing makeup, and set up in an unfamiliar, unsuitable location, and do makeup on each other and strangers in this awkward public place. Surprisingly fun.
Thursday May 9:Both Groups: Meet in the Commons (good weather) or Cafeteria (bad weather) with your kits for Free Face Painting Day 2: Face Stencil Theme & Home-made stencil project
Week 15:
Tuesday May 14: Group 1: Mythical Creature Fantasy Final makeup rendering due at beginning of class, Mythical Creature Fantasy Final makeup completed in class. (see more on Final Project on following pages). Group 2: Watch The Human Face Part 3 and do the quiz on Canvas online
Thursday May 16: Group 1: Watch The Human Face Part 3 and do the quiz on Canvas online. Group 2: Mythical Creature Fantasy Final makeup rendering due at beginning of class. Mythical Creature Fantasy Final makeup completed in class. (see more on Final Project on following pages).
Week 16:
Tuesday May 21: Group 1: Come to the Greenroom upstairs and bring your Makeup Morgue/Makeup Portfolio project. Check through your assignments with Tara (parked in her office at PA 121 off of the Green Room) and learn your grade. Turn in any missing work. Also bring any late projects, photos of projects you did at home, and your double checked grade points sheet to make sure I have your correct amount of points. If you are not sure what you have, please come and we can usually find a way for you to get projects done by the end of the day sufficient to pass the class. I will be staying after the final class period till 5pm to help you to get your work done. Group 2: Watch The Human Face Pt 4 downstairs and do the quiz on Canvas online
Thursday May 23: Final Class. Group 1: Watch The Human Face Pt 4 downstairs and do the quiz on Canvas online. Group 2: Come to the Greenroom upstairs and bring your Makeup Morgue/Makeup Portfolio project. Check through your assignments with Tara (parked in her office at PA 121 off of the Green Room) and learn your grade. Turn in any missing work. Also bring any late projects, photos of projects you did at home, and your double checked grade points sheet to make sure I have your correct amount of points. If you are not sure what you have, please come and we can usually find a way for you to get projects done by the end of the day sufficient to pass the class. I will be staying after the final class period till 5pm to help you to get your work done.
Mythical Creature Makeup Final Project:
Create a makeup for a God, a Fairy, a Mythical Beast or Alien, that combines elements from the natural world (characteristics of animals, plants or minerals) and humanoid appearance. The skin should have a color, texture or pattern that is not normally human. You may use store-bought or home-made prosthetics or stencils if you wish. Some examples you may wish to think about:
Rawhead and Bloody Bones, blood running down face, skinless (?) With bones poking out. Shaves or scalps bad children as they sleep, eats runaway children.
Jenny Greenteeth, river-hag or lake monster, green skin, long seaweed hair, sharp green teeth, turns into pond and duckweed to drown people.
The Ao Ao, a cursed hybrid of man and sheep with fangs, devours mountain travelers.
The Lorelei, a beautiful but deadly mermaid who lures sailors to steer their boats onto the rocks to drown and be devoured.
Black Annis, cave dwelling, blue-faced one eyed crone with iron claws. Eats children and lambs, wears a skirt of their skins, can transform into a cat, an Ancient goddess of child sacrifice.
Nellie Longarms, a water hag who drowns children, and snatches children up after their bedtime.
Werewolves, unfortunate humans who turn into wolves at full moon.
Quetzalcoatl one of the manifestations of the Aztec sun god Tezcatlipoca and represented as a man and/or plumed serpent.
Dragons, both good and bad, are fire breathing reptiles, some with the ability to fly or transform into human shapes. In Asia, they are a symbol of virtue and power, in Christian Europe a symbol of the devil.
Tsukumogami are Japanese objects of ordinary household use, that have acquired a living soul after 100 years of faithful service to man. Usually harmless spirits, they may act up or play tricks on their owners if they feel neglected, ill-treated or rejected because they have broken. These include Morinji-no-okama (a possessed tea-kettle), Zorigami (a possessed clock), Kyorinrin (possessed papers or scrolls) and others.
Gargoyles Architectural representations of imaginary monsters in stone.
Klingons Warrior-cultured aliens from Star Trek.
The Phoenix A beautiful bird spirit found in many cultures. Associated with female characteristics in Japan where they are often included in bridal dress patterns, in China they are the symbol of the Empresses of old, in Russia, it is the Firebird, associated with the Fire Flower, a symbol of female and natural reproductive power, and in Western tradition, it is symbolic of rebirth after disaster, especially fire, which is why it is the symbol of San Francisco, depicted on the City’s flag.
Goblins In Oz, underground mining creatures made of stone, fearful of eggs, in Harry Potter, small magical bankers and silversmiths who resent their 2nd class treatment by wizards.
The Green Man Pre-Christian British god of the forest, frequently depicted as part tree, especially oak.
An Alicanto, is a mythic Chilean night-flying bird that feeds on gold, silver, and jewels, and has the sparkling iridescent feathers and eyes to show for it. If a miner follows an alicanto without being caught, he may find silver or gold; however, if the alicanto discovers him, the bird will guide him off a cliff, and he will fall to his death.
Raven/Coyote Native American trickster spirits with superpowers that include an ability to appear human. However, their greatest powers are an ability to fool the wicked, and seduce the beautiful.
The Tin Woodsman, Tic-Tock the Clockwork Man, and other mechanical and or metal men from Oz and elsewhere.
Coppelia, an attractive 18th Century girl automaton doll (or a real girl pretending to be one).
A Kitsune-tsuki is a Japanese fox spirit, usually a represented as beautiful woman with fox like features (into which foxes were supposed to be able to transform), or a real woman, possessed by a fox.
Plataea an ugly, but lovesick, swamp nymph. Sweet but plain, often played by a man in drag, she must be funny, but touching, ugly, yet appealing, and visually connected to her role as a swamp dwelling aquatic nymph. She thinks she is fabulously beautiful.
Villja, a supernaturally beautiful Middle-European forest nymph with long hair and the ability to drive men mad with unobtainable desire.
The Green Lady, a British ghost or woodland spirit similar to a Villja in that her beauty has a hypnotic effect on men, but she also sometimes drains them of life like a soul-draining vampire.
Hombre Gato, an Argentinian Cat-Man, similar to a werewolf, in that he transforms from human into Cat-Man at night, and preys on those traveling the streets after dark.
Yuki-onna the snow ghost of Japan takes the form of a beautiful girl as white and blue as the ice and snow she dwells in, she may kill a traveler by a kiss, freezing him instantly.
Snegourichka the Russian “Snow-Girl” of 19th Century folktales was similar in melting properties to the American Frosty the Snowman, an immortal snow maiden, who melts near fire, or when love fills her heart, or instead becomes human and mortal because of love. In the Soviet era, she was transformed into the perky and plucky Granddaughter of Ded Morotz (Father Frost), the tall, thin, doddering Santa-Claus type figure associated with the New Year.
The Mishibizhiw, the Under Water Lynx/Great Water Panther of the Great Lakes region, is the king of all North American lake monsters with a body like a Lynx with fish scales on it’s back, a face like a man with a fur mane, glowing red eyes, horns, and a long spiky tail like a dragon with a fish tail end. Their roar sounds like water, and copper comes from them, if angered they cause storms that can kill travelers.
The Impundulu or “Lightning Bird” of Africa is a huge black and white bird demon-vampire, that can transform to a handsome young man and call down lightning.
| DRAMA-112 Stage Makeup—Fall 2018 Assignments Points Possible Points you have Practice Makeup Renderings 10 Demonstration of email forward 10 Online Quizes on The Human Face Parts 1-4 20 “Corrective” makeup research 10 “Corrective” Makeup, completed in class. 15 Real Aged Faces Research 10 Aged Self Makeup, completed in class. 15 Happy Aged Character makeup rendering 10 Happy Aged Character Makeup, completed in class. 15 Angry Aged Character makeup rendering 10 Angry Aged Character Makeup, completed in class. 15 Research on Cuts, Bruises and other injuries 10 Cuts and Bruises makeup. 15 Makeup using wax nose, completed in class. 20 Color Rendering for nose makeup 10 Research on Gothic, Horror film, or Silent film makeup 10 Gothic Horror Rendering 10 Gothic Horror makeup. 15 Multiple Research images of your famous guy with beard. 10 Beard makeup rendering 10 Makeup using a crepe hair beard 20 Participation in Free Face Painting Day 1: Zombie Horror Theme 10 Participation in Free Face Painting Day 2: Face Stencil Theme 10 Face Stencil 15 Research on your Non-Western makeup/mask sources 10 Non Western Makeup rendering 10 Non Western Makeup 20 Research on Drag and/or Glamour Makeup 10 Rendering of Drag Makeup due at beginning of class. 10 Drag Makeup completed in class. 20 Research on chosen Animal and related makeup 10 Animal makeup rendering due at beginning of class. 15 Animal makeup completed in class. 20 Completed, labeled Makeup Morgue of your research & renderings 30 Rendering of final Mythical Makeup project. 15 Execution of final Mythical Makeup project. 25 Extra credit projects by arrangement to replace missing classes and/or assignments. Examples can include: Making up kids, friends and self at home, Using mesh, stencils and spray makeup to decorate skin, cleaning, organizing, photographing or scanning some part of the Makeup Studio, or the Makeup History Collection, replicate or adapt a makeup from one of Tara’s magazines or books, designing makeup for a student production or class project, replicate a makeup or hairstyle from one of Tara’s makeup history books, or serving on the makeup and costume crew of a show. TBA Total points possible within normal class assignments 500 |
| When checking the Canvas Course assignment grading page, check at the far right for your percentages to tell how your grade is doing as you go along. · 500-450 pts (100-90%) = A · 449-400 pts (89-80%) = B · 399-350 pts (79-70%) = C · 349-300 pts (69-60%) = D · 299-0 pts 59-0% = F |
Phone Camera Enhancements to Class Grading, Interactions, and Learning
Thursday August 23, 2018, 10:00am-11:30am Diablo Valley College, PAC 3 (Faculty Development Workshop)
In the workshop we will interactively demonstrate using your cell phone camera to improve your own learning of student’s names, provide one on one interactions that build their confidence, easily collect coursework without taking it home, provide students with free “portfolio” shots of their work, and make grading simpler and more accurate.
Click to go see the PowerPoint Lecture on YouTube
Read the Handout: Phone Camera Enhancements FA18 DVC
See my Class Photos at Tara Maginnis Classes @ Shutterfly
If you work at Diablo Valley College and the date is before Thursday August 23, 2018, 10:00am-11:30am You can sign up for the workshop below at the link and go to Diablo Valley College, PAC 3 https://webapps.4cd.edu/apps/professionaldevelopment/WorkshopEnrollment.aspx?id=9343
Spring 2017 Costume Class Makes Paper Sculptures on First Day of Class
Paper Costume Project ,Spring 2015, Costume Design Class, Drama 113, Instructor: Tara Maginnis 
Paper Costume Project ,Spring 2015, Costume Design Class, Drama 113, Instructor: Tara Maginnis 
Paper Costume Project ,Spring 2015, Costume Design Class, Drama 113, Instructor: Tara Maginnis 
