Clown Tutorial

There are many things to be said about clown make-up—however, there is one thing that must come first. Ignore what you’ve heard—your clown face is not a mask! It’s entirely the opposite—rather than hide your features, it should enable you to show off your features. Make-up comes from the theater, where facial expressions need to be seen even from the back row—that’s why the oldest style of clown is the whiteface clown - black on white simply shows up best from a distance (there’s probably a joke in here somewhere about a newspaper, but we’ll let that pass for now).