Pat Mcgrath

Pat Mcgrath is an well known British make-up artist who is known for her best work and most creative work being hand made and works mainly with her fingers and not brushes. She has been one of my most favourite make-up artists that has inspired me in work I have created in the past when studying level 3 in specialist-make-up one of my favourite pieces of her work and that inspired me was Christian Dior AW 09/10 1920's inspired look, was so beautiful and so creative feel to it, it really really captured my eye as I do love the era 1920's and she recreated the era into today's modern feel to it making it creative and eye capturing for catwalk and when I was researching this make up and hair really did make me want to look into her work and seeing more creative work with colour and structure and thats what I love about her work she just lets go and gets so creative and doesn't really uses brushes to applying any make-up to the face either, and that's were her artistic side comes out as Pat didn't learn about fashion or make-up she studied foundation art course at Northampton. Being able to see in each make-up how creative her work is as she quoted in an interview (Vogue.com UK during London Fashion Week (Sept. 2008) McGrath explained her creative process, saying: "I'm influenced a lot by the fabrics that I see, the colours that are in the collections, and the girls' faces. It's always a challenge but that's the key - to make it different every time.)
                                                                                                           

(fig .1, fig 2 AW Christian Dior 09/10, Make-up artist Pat Mcgrath.)

My Work

( fig .3, fig .4 Model Samantha Rose, Make-up artist Sophie Anders, Hairstylist Sophie Anders )

So above my images I inserted images from the catwalk show Dior haute couture A/W 09/10 and below I inserted my images, as this catwalk look inspired me so much as I looked for inspiration for my catwalk project and it also influenced towards my artist influence make-up look by using the grip idea but just changing a little making my own instead of a formal sections of them being in line and staying straight I kind of made its bit more abstract as that was the look I was wanting to create.

( fig .5 Model Fiona Sutton, Make-up artist Sophie Anders, Hairstylist Sophie Anders)

So this women has really inspired me throughout my make-ups and all of the make-up artist I am talking about on my blog is people who I look at think I want to be like you doing what they love creating pieces of art everyday doing what they love and what everyone loves to see.