"Whether you are an actor in a summer-stock or regional theater, an acting conservatory program, a high-school or college production, a community theater, a local holiday pageant...or anywhere else, this is the best all-purpose "how-to" guide to makeup for the theater." "Besides period makeup, age makeup, and special-effects applications, the book delves into fantasy makeup, animal faces, and other kinds of stylization found on the contemporary stageand with the use of the most up-to-date materials." "Explaining all the basic techniques the actor needs, the author offers tips on putting together a personal makeup kit, analyzing one's own facial features, creating a picture file, caring for one's skin, and using a color-mixing chart." "Here, then, is the most complete makeup resource - for students, for amateur groups, for everyone performing on today's stage, and at any level." --Book Jacket.
Stage Makeup
The book is complemented by an eResource page featuring makeup tutorials and an instructor’s manual with example assignments and tips to teaching each chapter.
Basic Application Techniques Sharon Sobel. the ear and angle downward as they move towards the pads of the cheeks. The cheekbones stop directly under the outer corners of the eyes. There is a depression underneath the cheekbones, ...
Comprehensive and detailed for performer, teacher or student.
The book is complemented by an eResource page featuring makeup tutorials and an instructor's manual with example assignments and tips to teaching each chapter.
MARKS. Muscles and bone structure define outward appearances, so do veins and the skin itself. Stretch marks are striae—furrows, stripes, or streaks in a parallel arrangement—caused when the skin is pulled by rapid growth or stretching.
Widely referred to as the "bible of stage makeup," the timely revision of this classic text addresses principles and techniques in the use of makeup for the contemporary performer....
Nearly four hundred illustrations including color charts and twenty-three plates of period hairstyles supplement information on designing and applying theatrical makeup
With this new edition of Special Makeup Effects for Stage and Screen, author Todd Debreceni presents the latest techniques and special effects in what has become an industry "bible.
Teaches one the professional way to create, apply makeup for all types of theater and film; adapting individuals for many different types of roles, using shading, highlighting, distortion, hiding scars,...