So the second part of our homework assignment this week was to name a person who we consider to be a New Elizabethan. We can have chosen this person due to the fact that their fashion sense or style reminds you of or is inspired by the Elizabethan's or someone whos personality or achievements reminds you of an Elizabethan. The person I chos as a New Elizabethan is the Actress Natalie Portman. The reason I have chosen Natalie Portman is because on doing my research I find she shares some similarites with Queen Elizabeth herself. Queen Elizabeth was well kown for being an extremely intelligent and highly educated woman, not only did she have a great knowledge of politics, she was multi lingual and a master of controlling her self image.
Natalie Portman who has been in the spotlight as a hollywood actress froma very young age herself is also a very well educated and intelligent young woman, not only has she studied at Harvard University and gained a Bachelors in Psychology she also speaks fluent Hebrew, French and Japanese. Not only are they similar in the fact that they are both smart and enthusiastic about learning, they both take pride in their public image. In this day and age it is increasigly unusual to hear of a child star turned successful adult star and not being in the news at some point for some kind of bad behaviour. However Natalie portman is one of the very few stars of today who has never been named or shamed in any kind of trouble. Ms Prtman comes across as a very level headed young woman who clearly cares about her self image and the impct it may have on her career.
http://www.natalieportman.com/?page_id=106
http://pulptastic.com/top-10-smartest-female-celebrities-wont-believe-number-6/
http://celebs.allwomenstalk.com/25-smartest-celebrities
Sunday, 9 November 2014
Saturday, 8 November 2014
The Taming Of The Shrew
In our Tuesday afternoon lesson with Sharon this week we watched the BBC television drama The Taming Of The Shrew, a modern adaption of the Shakespearian play also named The Taming Of The Shrew. Our homework assignment this week was to describe how two charecters from the BBC version although dressed in modern atire have been purposely styled to indicate their social class. Just as in Elizabethan times there are certain fashion styles, fabrics, colours and accessories which can be used as a visial aide not only to determine a characters place on the social scale but also tells alot about their charecters personality.
The two characters I have chosen to discus are Mrs Minola and Bianca Minola.
Mrs Minola throughout this programme is dressed in a range of outfits displaying fabrics and accessories which are used again and again to confirm in the mind of the audience that she is a woman of the upper class, who is clearly wealthy and who likes to flaunt her status at every opportunity her charecter is that of a womam who clearly enjoys the finer things in life and this is not only reflected via the vocabulary she uses and her accent, her actions and her mannorisms throughout the play but on a more subtle note purely by what she wears. she is seen to wear expensive fabrics such as velvet, outfits and fashion styles associated withe high class women such as heels, trouser suits, blazers and expensive looking accessories such as bags and pearls. Not to forget that pearls were a favourite of Queen Elizabeth the first also. Not only the style of what she wears tells us about her though, the colours she wears also depict high society and regality such as purple, a colour often associated with monarchy and cream and white which associated with purity. It can also be noted that on more than one occassion throughout the film she is seen to be wearing a rose could this have been a choice of the stylists for the production as a reference to the Tudor rose? As the original play was of course written in the Elizabethan era with Elizabeth being the last reigning Tudor monarch.
Bianca in the modern day adaption could be described as the picture of renaissance beauty which would have been the desired look for many European women during Elizabethan times. Although in Britain Queen Elizabeth was considered beautiful, iconic and the epitome of class and elegance and who wealthy English women of the era aspired to look like, in other parts of the the continent the fashion differed slighly. the Renaissance Era was a cultural revolution spanning from the early 1400's right up until 16th Century, which started in Florence Italy, and swiftly spread throughout Europe, during this period peoples perception of beauty, fashion, and the arts became an heavily influenced by the art and liturature of ancient civilisations such as Ancient Greece and Rome. The classification of beauty during these early civilisations was now the height of fashion and what every European lady aspired to become. A woman considered Beautiful during the renaissance period would be Voluptuous, over weight in fact in comparisson to what is considered to be an attactive weight by todays standards where there has been a complete turn around in the desired figure of a woman. Women of the renaissance would also have long, often wavy, natural looking hair often worn down and free flowing as a sign of femininity, as with Elizabethan beauty, fair hair was an "in trend" of the renaissance era with European striving to gain golden locks just as in britain, and again resorting to some rather drastic methods to achieve the sunkissed look. Another similarty when compared to Elizabethan fashion was a high forehead.
Although Bianca Minola in the BBC adaptation of the Taming Of The Shrew is not over weight by any means or blonde, she does in other ways fit the renaissance beauty description, with nautural beauty, pale skin, long flowing hair and sporting open neck, revealing garments, renaissance portraits were often painted nude or barely covered showing a great deal of skin. Bianca is clearly also a wealthy woman and this is shown to the audience through her wardrobe of garments made from fine materials such as silk and fur often teamed with elegant looking jewelry and expensive looking high heels.
http://www.thebeautybiz.com/78/article/history/beauty-through-ages-renaissance#articleContinued
http://sirl.stanford.edu/~bob/teaching/pdf/arth202/Haughton_Renaissance_beauty_JCosmeticDermatology04.pdf
http://stylecaster.com/timeline-sexy-defined-through-ages/
http://pictify.com/200033/venus-anadyomene-titian
http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/shakespeare/tamingoftheshrew/
The two characters I have chosen to discus are Mrs Minola and Bianca Minola.
Mrs Minola throughout this programme is dressed in a range of outfits displaying fabrics and accessories which are used again and again to confirm in the mind of the audience that she is a woman of the upper class, who is clearly wealthy and who likes to flaunt her status at every opportunity her charecter is that of a womam who clearly enjoys the finer things in life and this is not only reflected via the vocabulary she uses and her accent, her actions and her mannorisms throughout the play but on a more subtle note purely by what she wears. she is seen to wear expensive fabrics such as velvet, outfits and fashion styles associated withe high class women such as heels, trouser suits, blazers and expensive looking accessories such as bags and pearls. Not to forget that pearls were a favourite of Queen Elizabeth the first also. Not only the style of what she wears tells us about her though, the colours she wears also depict high society and regality such as purple, a colour often associated with monarchy and cream and white which associated with purity. It can also be noted that on more than one occassion throughout the film she is seen to be wearing a rose could this have been a choice of the stylists for the production as a reference to the Tudor rose? As the original play was of course written in the Elizabethan era with Elizabeth being the last reigning Tudor monarch.
Bianca in the modern day adaption could be described as the picture of renaissance beauty which would have been the desired look for many European women during Elizabethan times. Although in Britain Queen Elizabeth was considered beautiful, iconic and the epitome of class and elegance and who wealthy English women of the era aspired to look like, in other parts of the the continent the fashion differed slighly. the Renaissance Era was a cultural revolution spanning from the early 1400's right up until 16th Century, which started in Florence Italy, and swiftly spread throughout Europe, during this period peoples perception of beauty, fashion, and the arts became an heavily influenced by the art and liturature of ancient civilisations such as Ancient Greece and Rome. The classification of beauty during these early civilisations was now the height of fashion and what every European lady aspired to become. A woman considered Beautiful during the renaissance period would be Voluptuous, over weight in fact in comparisson to what is considered to be an attactive weight by todays standards where there has been a complete turn around in the desired figure of a woman. Women of the renaissance would also have long, often wavy, natural looking hair often worn down and free flowing as a sign of femininity, as with Elizabethan beauty, fair hair was an "in trend" of the renaissance era with European striving to gain golden locks just as in britain, and again resorting to some rather drastic methods to achieve the sunkissed look. Another similarty when compared to Elizabethan fashion was a high forehead.
Although Bianca Minola in the BBC adaptation of the Taming Of The Shrew is not over weight by any means or blonde, she does in other ways fit the renaissance beauty description, with nautural beauty, pale skin, long flowing hair and sporting open neck, revealing garments, renaissance portraits were often painted nude or barely covered showing a great deal of skin. Bianca is clearly also a wealthy woman and this is shown to the audience through her wardrobe of garments made from fine materials such as silk and fur often teamed with elegant looking jewelry and expensive looking high heels.
Above a Renaissance portrait and below the Charecter of Bianca Minola played by Jime Murray in the 2005 BBC adaptation of The Taming Of The Shrew
http://www.thebeautybiz.com/78/article/history/beauty-through-ages-renaissance#articleContinued
http://sirl.stanford.edu/~bob/teaching/pdf/arth202/Haughton_Renaissance_beauty_JCosmeticDermatology04.pdf
http://stylecaster.com/timeline-sexy-defined-through-ages/
http://pictify.com/200033/venus-anadyomene-titian
http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/shakespeare/tamingoftheshrew/
Wednesday, 5 November 2014
New face chart
This is my latest face chart idea inspired by one of the contemporary images from Kats lesson on Monday, I did not take note of who the make up artist was or the fashion designer who the make up was designed for as I was still taking notes from the previous slide, so my next job is to track down the image and post it here. What I liked about the contemporary images was the use of straight lines rather than blending the make up so here I decided to work using triangles as I was able to make an exaggerated lip shape using 3 small triangles. Would then keep the faoundation of the face natural and apply a white misty mask shape foundation and powder around the eyes to represent the white ceruse make up of the Elizabthan era, white tipped lashes and red triangular cheeks to match the mouth. As I felt the look needed a liytle something extra I would apply a few pearl like jewels to the face above the btow line where the eyebrows will be blocked out and covered white.
Tuesday, 4 November 2014
Practice makes perfect
Helping out a friend for a photoshoot to practice my make up application skills
Elizabethan face chart ideas continued
Here is another face chart I have designed with an Elizabethan style make up so far I am still undecided which idea I am going to use in my final piece. In this look instead of using white make up to cover the entire face my idea is to use a natural base and apply white only around the eyes blended in at the edges. Rosy round cheeks and china doll like lips.
Monday, 3 November 2014
Elizabethan style make-up practical
Starting to get into the habbit of blogging as soon as possible after lessons to for two reasons: A it makes life less stressful and B I'm able to het more information out of my brain while its still fresh in my head. So in todays practical session we practiced blocking out eyebrows using soap and pritt stick. We then applied Elizabethan style make up consisting of white Kryolan supra colour grease base make up to aid hoding the eyebrows, a while foundation base, powder, pink/red blusher, and a pale red lip colour. Although I thought the end result looked a bit clown like I was not too disappointed considering it was my first attempt and having only 20 min to complete the look. As always practice makes perfect and one thing I have identified as an area to improve on is yidying up The area around the eyebrows after applying the pritt stick/soap to avoid cakey foundation and to even out the colour, as the Foundation tended to stick to the excess glue/soap therefore causing these areas to be much whiter than the rest of the face. See picure below....
Sunday, 2 November 2014
Sketching and shading
In our practical session last Monday we started to do some sketching and working on our shading and artwork skills. Our homework was to go home and sketch a still life picture of our choice. I chose to draw a flower in a glass vase ornament, although on reflection I think this was a little ambitious given the result. I also became rather frustrated tryng to sketch th glass vase so it has been erased from the picture. However I intend to keep practicing, and found sketching on the whole quite enjoyable.
Below are some of the 3D shapes we practiced shading in our practical lesson..
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