Elementary Secondary Higher Ed Common Reads
0 0
Download high-resolution image

Stage Makeup

The Actor's Complete Guide to Today's Techniques and Materials

Author Laura Thudium
Paperback
$35.00 US
Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed | Back Stage Books
On sale Apr 01, 1999 | 160 Pages | 9780823088393
Add to cart Add to list Exam Copies

This up-to-date, full-color makeup manual is designed to lie open on the makeup table right as a guide for student, amateur, or professional performers.

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.
Laura Thudium, author of Stage Makeup: The Actor’s Complete Guide to Today’s Techniques and Materials, was a professional makeup artist and costume designer. She served as an editor and was a writer for the Costume Society of America’s quarterly newsletter, and taught costume design at Southern Illinois University, where she was an associate professor of theater. View titles by Laura Thudium

About

This up-to-date, full-color makeup manual is designed to lie open on the makeup table right as a guide for student, amateur, or professional performers.

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.

Author

Laura Thudium, author of Stage Makeup: The Actor’s Complete Guide to Today’s Techniques and Materials, was a professional makeup artist and costume designer. She served as an editor and was a writer for the Costume Society of America’s quarterly newsletter, and taught costume design at Southern Illinois University, where she was an associate professor of theater. View titles by Laura Thudium

Related Articles

Subscribe

Penguin Random House Higher Education

© 2025 Penguin Random House

Back to Top
0
    • 0
    Wish List (0)