![]() Carmen then used Veraform (a heat sensitive thermoplastic material) to form the masks by pressing it into the mould after heating it up with steam.įinally, a flesh toned base coat of paint was applied and then using an airbrush, shadows were added along with dark circles under the eyes. from the designer, she made a cast of the clay mask out of plaster. She then sculpted a design with clay of how she wanted the masks to eventually look. ![]() In order to get the effect the costume designer was after, Carmen Killam (Milliner/Crafts Technician) used a plaster casting of Melonie Mortensen’s (Assistant Rentals Supervisor and Swing Crafts Technician) face (also called a Death Mask or a Life Cast) as a base. The masks were designed to look a little larger than life and allow for singing (hence the open mouth area) and to look like they had leathery old skin with twigs and all sorts of things in their hair. Instead of doing extensive age makeup on 30 chorus women to transform them into witches for our upcoming Opera performance of Verdi’s Macbeth, the director, costume designer Susan Allred and costume shop manager Rose Brown decided it would be better to give them masks to wear in the respective scenes.
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