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The on-screen monsters weren’t the only ones at Dead North this weekend.
Meaghan Richens/NNSL photo. Ashley Loomis’ face was painted by Heather Lapka.
Yellowknife-based makeup artist Veronica Speers, who recently worked on feature film Elijah and the Rock Creature, led a special effects workshop at Western Arctic Moving Pictures (WAMP) on Saturday.
Twenty people showed up to learn the good, the bad, and the ugly of special effects and many of them left with a new look.
Scroll through our photo gallery for a behind-the-scenes peek into the making of a monster.
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Stuart York sits patiently while Veronica Speers applies a foam latex prosthetic to his face. Speers is a local makeup and special effects artist and led a workshop during Dead North on Saturday.
March 2, 2019.
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Isabelle Corothers applies a prosthetic to Julia McIntyre-Smith’s face.
March 2, 2019.
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Sean Skinner applies a foam latex prosthetic mask to his son Jude’s face.
March 2, 2019.
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Karen Murray applies a foam latex prosthetic mask to Jennifer Dallman-Sanders.
March 2, 2019.
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Some tools of the trade.
March 2, 2019.
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Christena Kube applies a foam latex prosthetic to Kyle Newhook’s face.
March 2, 2019.
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Sean Skinner applies the first layer of paint to his son, Jude Skinner’s mask.
March 2, 2019.
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Mason Mantla peeks out from his freshly painted mask.
March 2, 2019.
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Mason Mantla checks out his new face.
March 2, 2019.
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Jennifer Dallman-Sanders gets transformed into a zombie (?) by Karen Murray.
March 2, 2019.
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Veronica Speers gives Brittney Clark pointers for painting Kayla Cooper’s face.
March 2, 2019.
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Julia McIntyre-Smith looks pretty blue after getting her face painted.
March 2, 2019.
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Ashley Loomis’ face was painted by Heather Lapka.
March 2, 2019.
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A close-up of the final product on Stuart York.
March 2, 2019.
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Meaghan Richens
Meaghan Richens is from Ottawa, Ont., and grew up in Perth. She moved to Yellowknife in May 2018 after completing her bachelor’s degree in journalism at Carleton University. She writes about politics,...
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