NFTs, Lensy and Green Witch Project - homage to Margaret Hamilton's portrayal of Baum's Wicked Witch of Oz (+ some makeup advice for interested peers)

Yesterday I was playing with the green paint and make up, and I was creating an image of a Green Witch. It is a sort of a green monster that waits to grab you under the bed in all the horror movies. My kid says I nailed it pretty well, but it took me like two hours of makeup and pretending in front of the smartphone cam to capture the proper level of creepiness.
There are enough example of the people making a living of the dread either as a full time live entertainers or TikTok cosplayers. I would say enough on YouTube as well, but I decide to skip on that one.
When I was done I had something to say about it... besides the "enough of picturing all that crap..."

https://i.imgur.com/hvMqK9m.mp4

I also want to say that I have been successfully whitelisted by the Lensy.Io and I will soon be a happy creator/owner of a few HIVE NFTs.

I already have ETH NFTs on Rarible/OpenSea and I will likewise start creating BCH NFTs with Memocash promotion.

The Green Witch Project will not be a part of any of those collections, this is made as an experiment/example and solely for artistic self-expression.

Lensy/HIVE will get my photography, BCH will probably be more artsy and I don't think I will invest time or resources into Rarible for now.

The entire March will be my experimental time which I will take to make various different things and enjoy playing with them.

About the character of the Green Witch

Little bit about the character of the Green Witch. It is not invented character by me, in fact it is a Wicked Witch of the West from the classic children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), created by American author L. Frank Baum.

She is also known as a Green Witch and has been used for decades as a blueprint description for many villains.

The first on-screen portrayal by Margaret Hamilton introduces Wicked Witch of the West as a gounted odd looking woman with green skin, and creepy disposition. But, unlike in a movie, this witch does not live in some cold dark cave, but in fact in a beautiful castle, has a magic wishing hat and is very suspiciously afraid of water.

Green Witch is only interested into maximising her own capabilities, wants to obtain magic silver shoes from Dorothy who is protected by love magic and dus can't be harmed.

Witch can't take her shoes off and gets electrocuted on an each attempt, so she taunts Dorothy to hand them down on her own will.

Silver and silver shoes meaning is strictly political ( free silver movement).

Green Witch has the ability to manipulate and control other beings, and has a power of a single eye similar to the telescopic vision. She also has no blood in her veins and her green complexion is completely powder-dry.

She doesn't have a stick or a broom, like we can expect, but an umbrella and out of an unknown reason she is afraid of the darkness, magical objects and facing own enemies.

Wicked Witch of the West is one of the best villains ever, she has wit, power, she is unapologetic, dedicated to her goal, tortures without a premise and completely ruthless. She is omnipresent, all-seeing and enjoys it. She is a personification of childhood terror.

Besides the Wicked Witch, and the Green Witch, this character has a few other very interesting names: Bastinda, Elphaba, Old Snarl-Spats, Lynessa, Mordra, Miss West, Morella, Theodora, Zelena, Evillene ...

This shrieky character has been listed as one of the scariest movie character of all times, and listed in top ten bad movie guys of all time.

About the Margaret Hamilton

In real life Hamilton started her career as a kindergarten teacher, and later as an established public personality she continuously promoted and sponsored elementary education and early learning throughout her life.

While filming, Hamilton conceived serious burns in one scene and her makeover made at the time from toxic chemicals had to be scrubbed painfully from her burned wounds - she suffered first-degree burns on the right side of her face and second-degree burns on her right hand. In the continuation of the filming she wore green gloves because her hand was still not fully recovered.

Because of the nature of her makeup, her skin remained the greenish shade for couple weeks after filming.

The voice we today know as the infamous Witch's laugh was Hamilton's and she managed to blew out the sound equipment. Her performance was so realistic and down to a detail, that it has been evaluated as too frightening by the test audience. The children and people with feeble mind had to be escorted outside of a hall during some scenes. Multiple lines were removed in post-production to tone down Hamilton's enthusiastic performance.

She reprised her role 40 years after in the episode of the Sesame street. Her performance was so ferocious that parents complained to the TV house which then never aired the same episode ever again.

Black, green and mean

I take the images I made as a homage to the Hamilton's Green Witch with lots of pride.

This is a horror edition, which by the way is probably one single image that I managed making to resemble an idea. It was totally worth it. The image is NOT tempered, so it is basically just makeup, angle and light.

The media artists from to us distant past, didn't have the modern technology at their disposal, and they had to rely only on their talent and tricks to achieve the expected effects, that's why many of the successful performances are the scariest and creepiest ever made event to this day.

And this is a profile image, or self-profile. I made it more like an alien look, it has a digital filter for the hue enhancement and I substituted my eye for a robotic blue one.

This last one turned out really cool, so I will be using it as a profile image for a while.

About my makeup

Unlike the expectations the green color and masking came off in 5 seconds because I made a really good base, but eye makeup remover irritated my eyes, next time I'll just use soap, this felt like cutting onions for hours.

The makeup art advanced light years from the distant 1938 when Green Witch was pasted onto Hamilton, and beside slightly shaded snowflake size chip on my lower lip no other parts suffered any weird coloring. Also, my makeup is definitely not toxic and not made of a copper, I use natural anti-allergic makeup, protective foundation and water-soluble green color that never even touches the surface of my skin.

If you ever want to do something similar, the ordinary makeup will not give you anything like this, so before you start making yourself into a critter create a really good makeup foundation - this includes, a thick but dry base cream, correction pen, liquid base and solid base, or fixing powder.

I use Himalaya multipurpose cream for a thick dry cream foundation because it is really good. When done dabbing yourself into a powdered donut, you can continue with the rest. There is no danger that anything you use will stick onto your skin.

You can easily use the flour, draw with ketchup or cherries - those things look so natural, then you can use various glues, because those will just fall off you ( be very fast with this, it doesn't stay all that long) , or any sort of water soluble paint.

Just one caution, these body colors are water soluble, but other things that you might use for your character can be quite uncomfortable so if a masking includes your lips, eyelids, nostrils ... you should cover those too.

I know that sounds shitty, but it is only for limited time and you will not end up with skin color or weird pattern that is not originally yours. Also be careful not to either accidentally dye your eyebrows or lose them because of the improper glue, if you are using certain stuff that call for a more advanced masking.

Besides green witch I might do some other characters, with or without various digital filters, if I nail it without filter of course it looks better and more realistic, but it usually lasts very long to get the right light and an angle for the impression.

If you have an idea for the character, leave it as a suggestion in the comments.

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