CLARE HEDGES
UMAe - United Make up Artists Expo
This was my first UMAe and I thought it was brilliant. It was so good to have so many industry people in the same place and be able to ask them advice and watch some great demonstrations.
This demo with Dan Gilbert on the PPI stand. It was awesome to watch him apply the piece to himself and then airbrush himself with it. I was able to get some good advice on airbrushes - he suggested that the Silver Jet Iwata would be a good first airbrush but would only be appropriate for a head and shoulders rather than full body as the compressor is not powerful enough.
I also spoke to Corey Castellano for a long time regarding airbushes. This was really beneficial as I was having difficulty deciding which to purchase. Corey told me that the Silver Jet would be a good compressor and that the Revolution would be a good airbrush. He suggested that personally he prefers the Paschhe and that his favourite is the 'H'. He suggested at some point purchasing the Paasche H when I can afford to. With the H, he said that you can create a splattering effect, similar to flicking paint, by turning down the pressure.
I was excited to see Stuart Bray's demonstration as I follow his work and have learnt a lot from his tutorials. I had followed the process of him creating these particular pieces on Instagram and was therefore interested to see the finished make up.
I was interested to see the way that he built up the colour of his paints. As he had applied encapsulated pieces, I was interested to see how he painted them. He used skin illustrator, which I was intrigued about as I had always wondered how possible this was due to the cap plastic disolving with IPA.
He said that he stipples the paint on in layers and this does not disturb the cap plastic much.
I wanted to know what he felt about adhesives and what his opinion was on Telesis and Prosaide. Interestingly, he said that he would stick with prosaide over Telesis, and told me that he felt Telesis never properly dries.
By far the most exciting part of my day was meeting Greg Cannom. I was able to discuss my current project with him and he gave me some advice as to how he would go about the project.
I was wanting some advice on colouring my pieces, as my model has a darker skin tone which I have not worked with before. Greg suggested using 'tattoo colours' which I discovered means the liquid skin illustrators. He suggested using the chocolate and the sandc colours to make the darker tone. He said he would then airbrush that colour on as a base and paint into that. He said that he never prepaints his pieces.
During his talk on the main stage, he discussed his old age make ups. This was particularly relevant to me, as I am doing an old age character make up. He said that he used old age stipple over the eyes,