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AcquaColour CANNOT dry the skin. It is a wet pancake and often needs a light touch of Blending Powder to set it. Yiou must have used the normal dry pancake. Either that or you have unusual skin.
I never allow Acquacolour on the eyes. Not since many yeasrs ago when we staged a Minstrel Show (Try doing that now!!) with the City Scouters & Guide Leaders. Two had their eyes done with white Acquacolour & ended up with red, watering rough eyes. The makeup lady thought she knew better than what I had laid down on the makeup charts and went against what I had set. She never worked for us again!
On the eyes we have always used Leichner greasepaint. Even when making the eye look so much bigger by drawing a line with a white liner above the lower lashes on the edge of the eye.

Not as bad as the first Show, a revue, I ever wrote & directed at age 17 when I put in another Minstrel Show.
A week later a frantic mother phoned me asking how to remove the makeup. Her daughter had so enjoyed herself that she got some of her fellow pupils to re-create the minstrels for a School Concert. AND
they had 'blacked up' with boot polish!!!
Such was the age of innocents.


Dale send me the method of putting pics on here and I will show you spome 40 odd of my own makeups. These were mounted in a large picture frame to stop actors/ drama students, dabbing their fingers on the pics and smearing them.
The pics cover my first Abanazer at 17. My first Falstaff at 24,my Dante, a couple of my dames etc

HOW do I shrink it down for the Forum?


The 40 odd were photographed onto an A4 size paper last month and the actual frame dismantled at last.There is one version which is 5" x 6 1/2.

Allen Tipton

Allen,

I recently found ImageShack (http://imageshack.us/) an extremely handy site for hosting images - and it's easy as cake (they also don't take any rights of your photos like some other image hosting sites).

I would suggest creating a login so you can keep track of all your images. Once you do this navigate again to the home page (above) if you want to do multiple images at once just click the "multi-uploader" button. Either way use the browse button to find the file(s) on your computer.

You'll have to play with the resize settings since I resized mine in photoshop, but it has a number of options (even with labels for what you'll use them with) the reason I'm unsure is if they resize with or without proportions.

After you've uploaded them click the "My images" link in the yellow bar. This will show you thumbnails of your image, click any of them and it will even generate code to plug into the forum.

Feel free to PM me if you have another other questions.

Allen, I'd be happy to help you get some pictures on the forum if you need help with the computer-geekery type stuff.

First of all you need to have the picture files on your own computer, either scanned in or transferred on if they're from a digital camera.

Then you need to re-size them so they're appropriate for going on the internet.

Then you need to upload them from your computer to some webspace and use some codes to make them show up on this forum.

I can help you with any or all of that if you drop me a PM or email, I'm quite interested to see them myself, hehe

EDIT: I just noticed me and Mage posted at the same time, so I didn't see his post before I made mine, incase anyone thought I was being even ruder than normal

My most grateful thanks to Dale, Mage & Kate. I shall try to follow your advice Often I've had pics but no idea as to how to resize or post them onto the Forum.
Never got beyond scanning & sending by e mail!

I have taken up Kate's offer to look them over.

Allen T

Hmm is this all for stage only or does it apply to close-up as well?

I don't personally like the dark eye circles I've got under my eyes, been trying a L'Oreal product to get rid of them but it doesn't seem to be working very well.

Here are just a few of my personal makeups. The great fun over the years was changing one's face to a different look










Allen Tipton

PS. A light applicatiin of No. 27 Pancake can be used almost anywhere. Light is the rule and you just look slightly sun tanned ...and clean!

A TIP from Tip. If you use pancake makeup over a number of performances do remember it is a 'dry' makeup. Therefore after you have washed it off use a moisteriser. I have used Nivea Creme for over 40 years and my skin for a magician of ****** wll a lot years is still pretty good.

I discovered the moisteriser effect, after my Troll King makeup in Peer Gynt, several Toads in T of T Hall, various magicians as:
Abanazar, Rameses(2nd column down)Chung Ling & Co., The Conjurer (Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors, Kalanag & Dante etc.) as well as my 5 Fagins,

A VERY SPECIAL THANK YOU
to a very Special Lady magician;
Katheryn, THE Queen of Clubs,
who waved her magic wand and made the cooying so easy--even for me.

Allen Tipton

Looks like an immense career you've had Allen!

Mr. Tipton, you should write a book called "Some tips from Tipton". Include all your wonderful posts/thoughts/memories - and a gallery of photos.

Thank you for your kind comments. A number of magicians from Derek Lever, Tom Owen, John Derris, Eddie Burke & others, have suggested I put the Dear Magician material, in Abra, into book form.
I'd also like to write up all the practical drama material I've created over the years for drama teachers, and groups. I kept a diary of the 8+ years at Nottingham Playhouse,& from dozens of drama Courses in order to preserve the material.
One day---perhaps.

BELOW is about a third of my career. It has been fascinating having a career which was a job as well as a hobby.
Lucky the man who -------

ALLEN TIPTON.
Past President & Hon. Life Member The Guild Of Magicians.
Member of The International Brotherhood Magicians &The British Ring.
Hon, Vice President of Notts. & Nottingham Drama Assoc.

Having studied speech drama and ballet at the Henwood Academy in Stourbridge, Worcs. And the Birmingham School of Speech, Allen went on to graduate, with credits, in drama, music, history and practical teaching at St. Peter’s College, Saltley; part of Birmingham University’s Education Department. Arriving in Nottingham in 1957 he became the first full time specialist in drama in the City’s schools; also pioneering drama and theatre examinations, as Chairman of the Drama Panel, with the CSE Board. He has been actor, director and choreographer for numerous well known local groups, including the Co-operative Arts Theatre (42 years) and Nottingham Theatre Club (now The Lacemarket) Allen has also carried out extensive youth theatre work at both these theatres and at The Bonington Theatre, Sheffield Playhouse and Nottingham Playhouse; where he was Director, for 8 years, (& one of the founders) of the Youth Theatre Workshop. He has tutored many adult and youth drama courses all over the country. Among his former students he numbers: the late Richard Beckinsale, Su Pollard, Sherrie Hewson, Stephen Frears (the film director), Torvill & Dean, Chris Gascoyne (Coronation St. New Street Law, Soldier Soldier etc.) Alexander Hanson (National Theatre, Auf Wiedersehen Pet, Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals & recently playing Captain Von Trapp at the Palladium & the new musical by the Les Miserables team, ‘Marguerite’ at Theatre Royal Haymarket). Theatre & TV actors, Paul Slack, Gavin Abbott, Ian Peck, Stuart Wood (Director) These have worked/appeared with the RSC, the National Theatre, various theatres around the country and in The Bill, Dangerfield, Midsomer Murders, Frost, Heartbeat etc.
Nottingham and Notts. Drama Association, made him Hon. V.P in 1998 ‘in recognition of immense contributions to Amateur Drama, through acting, directing, lecturing, teaching and adjudicating.’ He has adjudicated NANDA’s Full Length, One Act, and Youth Festivals on a number of occasions and tutored many NANDA Drama Courses from Stage Makeup, Revue, Music Hall, Stage Techniques, and Pantomime to General Acting.
He became a magician at the age of 9, joining the Staffs. Magical Society at 14. He is an Honorary Life Member & Past President ( 8 times) of the Guild Of Magicians and was made ’Magician Of the Month’ by the International President of The International Brotherhood of Magicians in 1980 for his reproduction of Dante the illusionist’s Sim Sala Bim full length evening show. In 1950 he appeared, as a ventriloquist on Hughie Green’s Opportunity Knocks after winning the local heats at Dudley Hippodrome, Worcs. Allen has lectured on Magic to The British Magical Society, The Staffs. Magic Society, Blackpool Magicians Club, Leicester Magic Circle, Sheffield Magic Circle, Derby Magic Circle & The Nottingham Guild of Magicians. Currently he is writing several major series ( Dear Magician) for Abracadabra, the only weekly magazine for magicians in the world.
Also coaching magicians by e mail in the USA, Germany Cyprus & the UK.

In 2001, he and his wife Barbara, founded their own company, Sunshine Theatre to produce musicals and plays. In 2007 they have semi-retired & now just perform their two person shows & Allen’s magic lectures.

However for now what I have learned is available to all of you,
Allen T