Clown Makeup Practise

Using the Cirque Du Soleil mood board as reference whilst figuring out the makeup on my models face, I firstly painted on a white base coat of snazaroo body paint. Making him flex his face and pull a lot of different expressions, I was able to outline faintly the natural creases of his face in light blue pencil. These would act a guide later on when shading in the spaces so only needed to be indistinct as it would be worked over once I began shading. Using blue and purple eyeshadow I shaded in the lines, with a black eyeshadow right at the base of the lines to give a more defined and dramatic contour.
The lips where drawn in with a red lip pencil, then filled in with lipstick. The nose bullseye design was also red lipstick, as I currently don't have red face paint in my personal makeup kit.
Once the makeup was completed we experimented with different expressions to see how the paint moved with the face, which gave results I was really happy with! As a clown, I think it's important to keep the ability to use facial expressions, which I feel was successful in this experiment.