Prosthetics / SFX / Character Masterclasses
Learn new skills – perfect your techniques or refresh your MUA knowledge.
Deposit will be required with full course balance to be paid 2 weeks in advance of course
Locations – Central London – SW London – Travel to sites can be arranged
Each course will take a maximum of 6 students
Questions or further information: ian@massa-harris.co.uk
2 Day Prosthetic Flat Moulding for beginners
Learn the basics of creating your 1st sculpt, 1st flat mould and 1st piece.
This course includes:
- Anatomy, texture, examples & usage
- Creating your first sculpt
- Skin tones
- Preparing the mould
- Cap plastic
- Edges
- Pulling your first prosthetic piece from mould, colouring & application
1 Week Casualty SFX Masterclass ( 5 days including 1 day on prosthetic application)
In depth week study on Casualty SFX Techniques
This course includes:
- Product knowledge
- Health, safety and Hygiene
- Research techniques
- Skin diseases / conditions
- Dirtying down / period dirtying down
- Swelling and bruising
- Cuts, scars and burns
- Casualty techniques
- Ageing
2 Day Airbrush course – from beauty through to character and fantasy
A 2 day course covering airbrush essentials, beauty airbrush makeup, body art and character design
The course includes:
- Health and safety
- History of Airbrushing
- Equipment use, products, compressors, airbrushes, cleaning and maintenance.
- Airbrush straight makeup / cosmetic makeup
- Freehand airbrushing techniques
- Stenciling and tattoos and body art
- Corrective work
- Creating looks for day, evening, camouflage, creative, bridal and special occasion
- Airbrush & SFX
Evening Beginners Casualty SFX Course (4 x 3 hr sessions) – all materials included
Part-time evening course covering casualty SFX makeup techniques
This course includes:
- Product knowledge
- Health, safety and Hygiene
- Research techniques
- Casualty techniques
- Swelling and bruising
- Cuts, scars and burns
2 Day Theatre Makeup Masterclass
Exploring theatrical makeup, history, character design, crepe hair application, ageing
£425 – (all materials included)
This course includes:
- Product knowledge
- Health, safety and Hygiene
- Introduction and makeup design in various performance spaces (male, female, children)
- Basic Ageing
- Effects of light on performers – lighting designer involvement
- Crepe hair work – beard, moustache, stubble
- Historical:
- To include (two of)
- Egyptian • 16th Century • 17th Century •18th Century • 19th Century (Victorian) •
- Edwardian (early 20th Century) • 20th Century
- To include (two of)
- Theatrical and Character:
- To include (two of)
- Straight female for the stage • Straight male for the stage
- Dance/Ballet • Rough Character/Vagrant • Egyptian
- Indian • Oriental/Geisha • Restoration (1660)
- Witch/wizard • Male to Female and vice versa !
- Animal with and without prosthetics • Fairy
- Pantomime and fairy tale character
- To include (two of)
Bald Cap application
Learn how to apply and paint a bald cap for film and theatre
This course includes:
- Product knowledge
- Health, safety and Hygiene
- Fitting the bald cap
- Application
- Colouring
- Finishing techniques
Introduction to Life Casting
2 day course introducing you to the world of life casting and creating a cast of the face and the hand.
This course includes:
- Product knowledge
- Health, safety and Hygiene
- Hand casting
- Face casting
- Cleaning the cast