15 October 2021 – Diploma in Special FX & Prosthetic Makeup Artistry Level 5 Assessment – Cut Above Academy Auckland
As part of our face casting assessment, we had to choose two designs for marquettes.
Baba Yaga is my first chosen design;
Baba Yaga is an old folklore from Eastern Europe. Baba Yaga was used to make children behave, or else she would come and take them away and grind their bones. She was neither totally good or evil. If you were well behaved, she would help you out, but if you were naughty, she would eat you. Baba Yaga lives deep in the forest in a house constantly rotating on chicken legs. She uses a mortar to fly around for transportation and the pestle to steer her craft. Sometimes she uses a broom, but that is only to clean up any evidence.
Female.
Baba Yaga is an ancient women with a haggard, weathered face, with thousands of wrinkles. Her eyes are milky and blind. Her pointy long nose has some hairy warts, and her teeth are yellow and long. The claw like fingers have long fingernails and her skin is a yellow/grey translucent colour. The long gray hair is wild and braided and the topknot is held up with sharp knitting needles.
