Arts Award, Make Up Arts Challenge, The Garage

Arts Award Centre: The Garage
Level: Silver

‘ I chose make-up as I thought it was very interesting how people can change very differently with a bit of makeup. Also I had never done makeup before and wanted to give it a go. I did workshops at The Garage with Louise young and they were really good. I enjoyed the workshops a lot and decided that I definitely wanted to do it for my arts award as I would really enjoy it. I thought it was really good working with Louise as she made things fun and didn’t make you feel pressured into doing it right the first time, she told us about how she does makeup and how she started and things like that.

I learnt how to do an old face, a natural look and also cuts, bruises and old bruises. And I learnt how to do a graze.

I chose to do different decades as they had interesting clothes and makeup in them times that we chose. Also we chose to do fantasy fairy and genie as they wear floaty clothes and also there makeup can be very different but your own style. We chose to do – 1920’2, 1950’s, 1960’s 1880’s, fantasy fairy and a genie. Each of us are doing different bits for our arts challenge.

I have done a lot of research and done some makeup ideas at home. I have looked how they wear the makeup and how they dress, the poses they could make and the setting they would be in.

I would like to learn more on this subject and I am aiming to be a hair dresser in the future so sometime once I have become more in depth in my career I will take this route and make more of my job.

Doing this as my arts challenge has been good as I have been able to search up and learn about things that I normally wouldn’t.

If I learn more about the makeup and get more confident with it then it would be good to do makeup for my leader ship in a class with me teaching younger children.
I would be really interested in doing that =]
Thanks so much =] ..

Billie <3

Billie achieved her Silver Arts Award.
The workshops for Billie's arts challenge were kindly funded by the Arts Award Access Fund
www.artsaward.org.uk

Photo by Jonathan Spratley