Everything since that time has been working with other makeup artists and wigmasters. I would like to get more experience with prosthetics, although I'm going to be getting into that before I get any formal training. I will be learning on my own as I go through the process. I haven't had the coincidence of time and money to pursue any formal training. Working the schedule that I work its impossible to take time off to take any serious classes.
Every show is a learning process anyway because everything is so different.
Bruce Geller, who I mentioned earlier, was a genius with hair. That was his strong suit, he could take a piece of shit wig and turn it into magic in the course of minutes. His creativity and ability to make people look right on stage was uncanny. He was my first real mentor. I looked up to the former head of the San Francisco Opera, Paul Alba who we lost in 1994.