I was lucky to work with Claire Williams, one of the Directors of the Bloody Marvelous range while working in the crowd room on the set of Da Vinci's Demons in 2013. Claire is a well known Makeup Designer in SFX and well respected in the Makeup Industry. The Da Vinci Demons production in 2013 was headed by the Makeup Designer Jacqueline Fowler. The large crowd room was headed by Morag Smith and Claire was one of the her daily team. I think it was one of the most organised crowd rooms I have worked in, alongside 80 other makeup artists. I learnt alot from Claire and was amazed at the potions she mixed up on a daily basis for the makeup teams to work with.
Later on when working on occasional Saturdays in Screenface I became aware of the Bloody Marvelous range of products. I loved the colour of the bloods and how they worked on the skin and was really pleased to find out that Claire was behind this range. Its an area she has great experience of and I think it is a really good range to work with.
PAM offered the workshop day with a demo by Claire and more of an insight into the product range. The Bloody Marvelous team were there headed by Claire and Angharad Davies who are both Directors in the company. They had planned to demonstrate a slit throat effect using a silicone prosthetic piece. The piece had been sculpted and pre made by Claire and was attached to the models neck area using prosaide. Under the silicone piece was a tube in place to release a "fresh blood" effect later on.
Photographs of the silicone piece sculpted and applied during the demonstration. Also a photo of the Bloody Marvelous product range used during the demo.
The event hosted by PAM was well attended by a range of makeup students mainly from LCF, all at different stages in their training. It was a really interesting session with Claire sharing her vast experience of SFX work while working methodically applying and creating the desired effect.
After colouring in the silicone piece using a flicking method and a Skin Illustrator Palette, Claire began to develop the colouring for wound before finally adding the Bloody Marvelous Wound Filler into the "open wound". The final detail was to use a syringe and release the runny blood through a tube directly under the silicone piece to achieve the fresh wound effect. Claire used the Bloody Marvelous Prop Blood to finalise this effect.
The Bloody Marvelous range of products are available directly in the PAM Makeup Store in London. Additionally you can check out this product line on the company website for Bloody Marvelous at www.bloodymarvelous.tv.
Their website is informative and offers demos about the product range.
I really enjoyed this session, learnt a great deal about this product range and would highly recommend this range to any SFX Makeup Artists kit. The team will be at the UMAE Trade Show in April . Check out www.umae.co.uk for more information on this. A big thank you to PAM for hosting this event and to the Bloody Marvelous team for showing us their range and sharing their expert knowledge.
