Clown workshop in Latacunga

This photo was taken at a clown workshop that we just had in Latacunga Ecuador. Edwin Ruano is helping this young lady to set her makeup with powder. There is still powder on her face at this time so the colors are not as bright as they will be when she is finished. It is very difficult to get makeup for clowns here in Ecuador. The makeup that they can get often runs and is bad looking after an hour or so. Edwin was showing her how to powder the makeup to set it in the skin so it will last all day. You can see in the photo on the right that they had papers to draw their clown faces that they wanted before they started putting makeup on their own faces. We also taught them in the workshop about the way clowns act, think, and do things. They were able to learn a little about balloon sculpture. There was one man that fixed his makeup as a hobo clown and he looked very good but he had already started cleaning his face before I was able to get a photo of him. It was a good workshop but we will be turning this into two workshops in the future. One workshop will be only on clown makeup and the other will deal with the other aspects of being a clown and clown ministry.