DPA- Commedia dell'arte -7

Today, all of the others in my class spent the lesson finishing off the masks that they have created for their characters. As Columbina is a un-masked character, but wears a lot of make-up, especially around the eyes, I spent the lesson doing research into / planning how I will have my make-up to best fit my character. As I don't have the right materials for creating the look that I will want for Columbina, I will later post photos of the make-up once I have applied it.

From research that I have done, I have found that Columbinas face is often painted to be as pale as possible, which was a huge trend in Elizabethan times, across a large amount of Europe.She also often has very red, blushed looking cheeks shaped as circles, rather than blended in. The eye makeup is often brought down from the middle of the eyes, which makes Columbina look very clown like, there is variation in the colour of the eye-makeup, but I am planning to do my eye makeup dark, with only a small pull down as I don't want to make her look to clown like. The lips are almost always covered to be the same shade as the face make-up, so that they can be made to look a lot smaller, by lining and filling on the centre of the lips. She also has very thin dark eyebrows, which may be hard for me to re-create as I have quite thick eyebrows, however I find make-up to be very interesting to play around with and will give it my best shot.

Here are some videos and photos that I have used for inspiration for her make-up;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRN91Ji6_lo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKEttgC4bxE

   

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