078 – Eyeliner
Back at the Wizard of Oz play where the scarecrow is getting his make up done back stage.
065 – The Wizard of Oz
The Joliet Bicentennial Park is currently running the Wizard of Oz musical. My friends at Josie O’Kain costume shop worked on costumes for the show, and I there are a lot of people I know from the JDG and Bi-Park working on stage and behind the scenes. So go check it out and give them your support.
The remaining show dates are June 26, 27 & July 2. All shows are at 7 pm.
050 – On the Open Road
I had some technical difficulties getting this one up. I spent an hours trying to upload this with no success, so I had to wait until now to upload. I was heading home.
Halloween Make up 2009 – Round 3
On to the last weekend of Halloween make up at Josie O’Kain Costume Shop in Joliet, IL. I’m going to be splitting this up into 2 posts as we did a lot of stuff. I won’t be posting a lot of the make up that we did. Partially cause we had some repeat make up jobs from previous weekends. I love when people keep coming back, but I don’t want to show you all the same images over again. We did a lot of make up on kids on Halloween morning, that I’m not going to share either. They looked great, but I don’t feel right posting images of the kids. There were also about 4 or 5 make up jobs that I simply forgot to take a photo of.
I’ll start off with the stuff we did on Friday. First we had a Frankenstein monster using one of the kits from Rubies. It took some work trying to get all the elements to come together for this, and still have a edge from the thick forehead appliance, but otherwise I think it came along pretty well.
Next we had a cyclops. It’s a nice latex application from Don Post. Don Post makes some nice and very creative items, but sometimes there tend to be some slight issues with the design that I’ll mention more of next time. The cyclops was a bit think so it was a little harder to hide the edges with a normal skin tone, but did the best we could on it.He did change into a costume before leaving, but I will say I’m always partial to modern day clothes with demons and monsters. Who says a cyclops can’t be a Cubs fan.
Next we have a repeat customer from last year which give Ellwyn a chance to show off her great skill with the air brush. This year our fairy wanted more of an autumn look and colors to go with her costume. I started of her base, and Ellwyn went to town on the details. The stencils for the leaves were made by the clients significant other. One of the thinks we do miss out on sometimes is that we often don’t get to see people in their complete costume as she is pictured in a dress she wore just to have the make up done in.
I’ll go ahead and jump to Saturday where I got to work on a customer that generally has come in every year for a long time. Every time I get to do something different. This time we just kept it simple with some horns that were blended in with blood as they burst through his skull.
That’s all for today. I’ll have some more images from Halloween next time.
Rialto
In the last image I shared we had the Rialto Sqaure Theatre in the background. The Raito is a beautiful structure, and Joliet landmark. So I’m always glad to shoot a image of it.
A few days after the 50 ft woman shot, I was out doing headshots of one of the models and used the architecture to frame her head in the shot.
