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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.

Updated and Improved Gathered Rehearsal Skirt Instructions-2021!Download
Easy-Gathered-Rehearsal-Cape-with-Pictures-Download

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

Here is a video I made that will go into an upcoming week of class we spend on doing stuff with cheap and easy thermoplastics for costuming
This is a substitute for the buckram and hat wire millinery tutorial in the face 2 face class, because while we are on lockdown students can buy what they need for just a few $ at Dollar Tree and make this at home. There is also a step by step tutorial for making a Pool Noodle Marie Antoinette Wig:

Marie Antoinette Pool Noodle Wig Project Page

See also the PDF handout 2015-hot-glue-notes

More PDF Handouts you can use for your Costume Classes:

One-Hour-Dress-Diagrams-Sp-2021Download

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…

Crafts, Thermoplastics, Workshops and Presentations

Evil Mutant Fairy Plastics 3: Warped Wings – Limited Workshop – Costume College 2012

PDF of Handout – Evil Mutant Fairy Plastics 3: Warped Wings by Tara Maginnis

Evil fairy in the play The Skriker wearing a heat shrunk plastic wing made using the method shown in this workshop and explained in the PDF handout.

basic tools to gather for making a simple set of heat shrunk plastic wings made using the method shown in this workshop and explained in the PDF handout.

Forming wire for a simple heat shrunk plastic wing made using the method shown in this workshop and explained in the PDF handout.

Forming wire for a simple heat shrunk plastic wing made using the method shown in this workshop and explained in the PDF handout.

Forming wire for a simple heat shrunk plastic wing made using the method shown in this workshop and explained in the PDF handout.

Forming wire for a simple heat shrunk plastic wing made using the method shown in this workshop and explained in the PDF handout.

Forming wire for a simple heat shrunk plastic wing made using the method shown in this workshop and explained in the PDF handout.

Forming wire for a simple heat shrunk plastic wing made using the method shown in this workshop and explained in the PDF handout.

Covering wire with cellophane for a simple heat shrunk plastic wing made using the method shown in this workshop and explained in the PDF handout.

Covering wire with cellophane for a simple heat shrunk plastic wing made using the method shown in this workshop and explained in the PDF handout.

Covering wire with cellophane for a simple heat shrunk plastic wing made using the method shown in this workshop and explained in the PDF handout.

Shrinking and “hole-ing” cellophane over wire for a simple heat shrunk plastic wing made using the method shown in this workshop and explained in the PDF handout.

Shrinking and “hole-ing” cellophane over wire for a simple heat shrunk plastic wing made using the method shown in this workshop and explained in the PDF handout.

Covering wire with cellophane for a simple heat shrunk plastic wing made using the method shown in this workshop and explained in the PDF handout.

Shrinking and “hole-ing” cellophane over wire for a simple heat shrunk plastic wing made using the method shown in this workshop and explained in the PDF handout.

Shrinking and “hole-ing” cellophane over wire for a simple heat shrunk plastic wing made using the method shown in this workshop and explained in the PDF handout.

Shrinking and “hole-ing” cellophane over wire for a simple heat shrunk plastic wing made using the method shown in this workshop and explained in the PDF handout.

Shrinking and “hole-ing” cellophane over wire for a simple heat shrunk plastic wing made using the method shown in this workshop and explained in the PDF handout.

Shrinking and “hole-ing” cellophane over wire for a simple heat shrunk plastic wing made using the method shown in this workshop and explained in the PDF handout.

Shrinking and “hole-ing” cellophane over wire for a simple heat shrunk plastic wing made using the method shown in this workshop and explained in the PDF handout.

Forming wire for a simple heat shrunk plastic wing made using the method shown in this workshop and explained in the PDF handout.

Covering wire with cellophane for a simple heat shrunk plastic wing made using the method shown in this workshop and explained in the PDF handout.

Shrinking and “hole-ing” cellophane over wire for a simple heat shrunk plastic wing made using the method shown in this workshop and explained in the PDF handout.

Covering wire with cellophane for a simple heat shrunk plastic wing made using the method shown in this workshop and explained in the PDF handout.

Shrinking and “hole-ing” cellophane over wire for a simple heat shrunk plastic wing made using the method shown in this workshop and explained in the PDF handout.

Shrinking and “hole-ing” cellophane over wire for a simple heat shrunk plastic wing made using the method shown in this workshop and explained in the PDF handout.

Shrinking and “hole-ing” cellophane over wire for a simple heat shrunk plastic wing made using the method shown in this workshop and explained in the PDF handout.

Covering wire with cellophane for a simple heat shrunk plastic wing made using the method shown in this workshop and explained in the PDF handout.

A large but lightweight insect made of wire, beads and shrunk plastic for attaching to a costume.

Crafts, Thermoplastics, Workshops and Presentations

Evil Mutant Fairy Plastics 2: Torquing Tyvek – Limited Workshop – Costume College 2012

Handout: Evil Mutant Fairy Plastics 2: Torqueing Tyvek by Tara Maginnis PDF

Tara Maginnis in an Evil Fairy Queen costume made from Painted and Heat-treated Tyvek Home Wrap

Heat Treated Tyvek

Heat Treated Tyvek

Heat Treated Tyvek Home Wrap

Heat Treated Tyvek

Heat Treated Tyvek

Heat Treated Tyvek

Heat Treated Banner Tyvek

Costume Designs for Theatre, Crafts, Diablo Valley College

Oedipus el Rey, Diablo Valley College, 2015

Oedipus el Rey at Diablo Valley College, 2015, Costumes by Tara Maginnis

Oedipus el Rey at Diablo Valley College, 2015, Costumes by Tara Maginnis
Oedipus el Rey at Diablo Valley College, 2015, Costumes by Tara Maginnis

Oedipus el Rey at Diablo Valley College, 2015, Costumes by Tara Maginnis
Oedipus el Rey at Diablo Valley College, 2015, Costumes by Tara Maginnis

Oedipus el Rey at Diablo Valley College, 2015, Costumes by Tara Maginnis
Oedipus el Rey at Diablo Valley College, 2015, Costumes by Tara Maginnis

Oedipus Costume Renderings and Build Process:

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Oedipus photo call images of UV scenes and other scenes too dark to shoot during rehearsals, by Tara Maginnis:

Photos Taken During Preview/ Final Dress Rehearsal by Tara Maginnis

Photos taken in earlier dress rehearsals by Tara Maginnis