Makeup Apocalypse

For a few months now, I have been interning with the Taylor Jameson Hair Design in Northside.  Each year, the salon participates in the annual Northside Fourth of July Parade and this year, I was asked to assist with makeup.  The theme for the salon was Zombies and I was so excited to do some more character makeup!
I met with the salon's team the night before the parade and Michael Sparto gave a demonstration of the zombie look that they wanted for the next day. On the day of the parade, I was instructed to do base coats on peoples face and exposed skin of either a green or blue hue.  Once things got moving and my task was complete, Michael gave me two people as my own projects.
With these two "zombies" I was allowed to decide the contouring, shading and wounds.  Nancy was my first and biggest project.

Model: Nancy

She had a blue zombie tint that I used a reddish brown, or a dried blood color, if you will, to contrast with for shading and extra zombification.  Also, painting her lips with a pale cream helped complete the walking dead look.  I say that Nancy's project was bigger because I gave her a bite mark.

Nancy's left arm, bite 

For this, I used liquid latex and it was also my first time using this product.  I kept dabbing the liquid latex in a bite mark shape with a toothpick, letting it dry and then adding more layers.  Once it had dried, I applied some blue and purple eye shadow to give the illusion of bruising, threw on some fake blood and she was ready to go scare people. :)

My second project was Kevin, who worked at the salon and had been styling hair until it was parade time.  I had less time to work on him, but was able to use my knowledge and experience from Nancy to create a zombified look for Kevin.

Model: Kevin

Kevin was a very natural zombie, as you can see. Because we were on such a time crunch, we took photographs before I finished his hands and neck with blue.  I had a wonderful time creating zombies and being one!  And just for a little fun, here is a picture of me as my zombiefied self. (I did my own makeup as well.)

Missy White: Zombie

Class Speaker on Interships

In my Professional Practices class at DAAP we has a speaker this past week about internships.  The speaker was Fine Arts student John Grgas.  John shared his experience as an intern in the spring of 2010 in the Golden Triangle district in Denver, Colorado.  John told us that he researched and chose five galleries that interested him within this district, contacted them, meet with each one and finally chose one that fit what he was looking for.  A useful tip he shared was that each gallery offered him an internship because he went in dressed professionally and offered basically what an internship is--free labor, so he got his pick of the litter.  The gallery he chose was Walker Fine Art and with this gallery he learned how sales were run, how the gallery goes through artist submissions and several other key things in running a gallery.  John soon became in charge of the gallery's social media and developed better communication skills in his time with the gallery.  One of the biggest helpful tips that John stressed was that gallery owners LOVE easy to hang work.   His advice on internships was to do at least one intern if not more, be professional and don't burn any bridges, learn anything they are willing to teach you and always send a thank you note when your internship is over.

The only pace that I have interned with in Indian Hill High School and that internship has always been very relaxed and has been seen more a a volunteer effort but I always help out with everything that I can, from set construction to scenic painting.  And their next show is coming up soon! I will be sure to post about my next intern experience.

Below is the link to John Grgas on LinkedIn.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/homeschooledninja