Beard Making

These past couple days I've been making beards for the school play. From set painting, to costumes, to poster design (and anything else they need an artist for!), I'm helping out. This year we are doing Fiddler on the Roof, and I never realized how much work that putting a musical production on in two months would take!

I am happy to say, I am finally enjoying it. The past couple weeks have been increasingly hard between balancing the play, Quarter grades, and everything else we do, and I was having a hard time with it all. I am ashamed to say that I have not had the best attitude about it all at times. But this week, the play is on in just a few days and excitement is growing! While everyone else is getting stressed about everything they need to do before the big day, I'm starting to see how awesome the play is going to be. I'm even starting to get my artistic juices flowing again.

So what, you may ask, do I mean by making beards? Our poor Asian students, and even some Caucasians, have an awful time growing hair, so we've imported some synthetic hair and liquid latex and I am literally "building" beards on their faces. The fun part is that the latex peels off their face in one piece and they can just re-glue it on before each performance.

What is interesting is that of all things I actually learned how to do this almost ten years ago when I was a freshman in High School. One of the moms of the drama group was experienced in "making beards" and I was so fascinated that she took the time to show me how. So now I get to use this skill learned so long ago! What fun it is.

I'll try to have some pics soon of this creative process. One of the students in the photography club was photographing the two-hour process (yes, you heard that right) tonight, so I'll see if she'll pass them on to me. Hold tight!