Divas and the Beast

Just sent another promo flyer off to the printers – should be a fine show, based on the generally wicked-yet-lovely-and-nice…

Handy dandy website of the week – Texturemate

Photoshop has a lively community of people who make handy textures, brushes, tutorials and patterns available for free – sometimes…

My happy smiling full face manly mask was among those making a debut onstage last night.

The original Greta became a famous actress despite her famously imobile face. Maybe this one will do as well?

I took six members of the Wellington Improv Troupe through some techniques for making theatrical character masks, passing on what…

Today several friends from the Wellington Improvisation Troupe came round to have their faces cast in plaster, using expired dental…

I’ve been making some masks over the last few weeks – using a low temperature melt thermoplastic (Instamorph, a similar…

I love the aesthetics of old photographs – especially the early ones where the photographer was using natural, uncertain light,…

I spent last week trying a new medium (bone), working with mostly new tools (dremel with dental bits, jewellery files…