Backstage

Not only the sensitivity of the wedding makeup, or the charm and sweetness of make up fashion & glamour on these pages, but also a bit’ of blood and nastiness.
The idea of ​​Frank and Mary to see each other with a little’ of blood on him has been reworked by me and Gabriel in a rather minimalist (away from the atmosphere pulp and splatter horror films the 80s and 90s) domains in which realism and conceptualism.
In 'play your game’ (Pictured above) Mery is playing his life in a game of cards with the always fascinating vampire Francesca, and the opening bet of the game comes down fresh from her wrist.

The make up of the characters in the scene is light and almost neutral: has always been made with funds made fat light, neutral colors, eye shadows red and rosé, colored contact lenses to make it look flat and bright, and all helped to make the atmosphere quite surreal.

The wounds were instead made by molding: In fact, the model made of plasticine, I got the impression with a silicone rubber for polyaddition. Then I created a movie on the footprint in cap mat you can easily blend with the skin, sucessivamente and I filled it with bondo, which has maintained transparency.
The result is an effect of extreme realismoin which the prosthesis has no edges and whose color blends naturally (thanks to semitrapsarenza) with that of the complexion.

Other scenes from the set:

Models: Francy Albicans, Mary Poppins
Photography: Gabriele Bertolini, Stefano Sacchi

Here we go again.. cats back to strike! Already, although in this case it is a leopard, is still a part of the family.. 🙂
For an event that was held Hobby Show 2013, in Milan in conjunction with Cartoomics 2013, I have realized and applied this prosthesis' face feline’ and subsequently colored by Flavio Bosco for the realization of this bodypainting.
The nose, applied with glue for prosthesis, adheres to the whole portion of the face covered, and being made of very soft material, it preserves the facial expressions.
E’ was fun to see the large number of people who, around the fair, Anya stopped, our model, to be immortalized in a photo a pose with a cat of this caliber!

This photo set is the brainchild of Gabriel Bertolini, loosely inspired by an article published in Kurv Magazine, and of course, the work of all of us.
The idea of ​​the Gothic white, that lends itself well to the soft lighting of the set and the magnificent interpretation of Francesca, is embodied in a makeup veiled in tones very clear, whitish.

On the basis of a lighter color I made light the light and shade of the face, a little’ more pronounced than on the eyes, already deep and still highlighted also by the false eyelashes.
For the mouth I thought of a nice bright red color, adequately shaded at the edges to give it more roundness to the shape and volume.
Eyebrows were raised slightly with the light and shade, allegerite defined but with the light color of the base. The ethereal gaze,finally, was accomplished by applying to Francesca of contact lenses of intense blue color.

The result is a trick of the light but at the same time based on dark eyes and mouth, gothic and ethereal, that highlights the beauty of Francesca, that giving something of melancholy.

Always a lover of mystical charm exercised by the woman feline, I freely inspired by a work of makeup and special effects seen all'IMATS 2009 and manufactured by Nelly Recchia, for the realization of this chimera, which contributed in costest istuito by the National Film Bologna.

The most striking feature of makeup are these huge ears feline style, which confer aggressiveness and at the same time sensuality to the face of Silvia, building with the rest of the face an almost perfect triangular.
For their realization, I leaned against the head of my faithful dummy annni vintage 70s often used for testing body-painting.
Being a project commissioned and without sponsors, I could not use the materials' quality’ and I had to make do with what we already had at home. First I then isolated the head with a thin plastic film for food, pulled to remove any pieghetta and secured with masking tape, so that it can stay as integral with the head. Once established forms and volumes with a quick outline of paper, also useful to create the symmetry with the other side, I started modeling phase with modeling clay.

Given the particular shape of the ear totally asymmetrical and the presence of several undercuts, I decided that the only way available to me to get that object, was to realize a mold in three pieces and with dual key (the top of the photo one of the two molds obtained with positive silicone attached).
Although it is not new to this dipo working, I guarantee you that the opening of the first mold has been as exciting as the opening of the Christmas gifts that I did my grandparents when I was a child.
The platinum silicone fact that I used (really not cheap, but it was one of the few materials I had available in good quantity) is a substance very sensitive, whose proper catalyst can be inhibited by many elements. Plaster mold, carnauba wax and vaseline instead worked perfectly.
Holding all the pieces, the realization of the work was not particularly difficult, but it required a lot of patience on my part is that by the model.
In fact, I started applying a cap (bald cap) in Glatzan blended with acetone, I also served to hide his ears and eyebrows.
I then glued the cat's ears with the pros-aide to the shell, ears that had deliberately left rather rough at the bottom and treated with talcum powder to facilitate the adhesion of the glue.
But also in the next layer gave uniformly over cap and ears, after sealing minor imperfections with bondo (pros-aide + Aerosil), I noticed an excellent adhesion over the entire surface.
The pros-aide dried with a hair dryer and then powdered provided a great base for color-based fat (Supracolor) used for the bottom.
In about three hours, also spurred by Silvia (my model, I owe a special thank you and part of the credit for the success of the project), I completed the, completing work with stencils and airbrush for the realization of the track maculata and eyebrows.

New drink with friends organized the Cost of Milan, where, launched the theme of International Day for the Rights of the Child, we colored our model who kindly provided us with the torso and arms cartoon characters

The fact that he has no basic project and to have worked each with their own colors led to some discoloration and all'accavallarsi of two or more people in the realization of the work, despite the kind offer made to us by the holders of local, to continue working in the private room

An evening run away fast, in which each participant is back baby, thinking of the lightheartedness of adolescence and the hope that in today's world totally civilized and industrialized, every child should be guaranteed rights to a happy childhood for a free social and cultural growth.

In the photo above are returned children (dall’alto, left): Fiorella 'Fioz’ Unleash, I (Stefano Sacchi) , Lavinia Ferri, Flavio 'F.B.’ Bosco.

Under: Ivart, Michael Salgado Vaccaro, Elena Tagliapietra

They played with us: Riccardo Fontana, Cesare Marino, James Leonardo Borgese, Linda and Charlotte Aliprandi