Creative Artistry & FX - Suzanne Patterson

Special Effects Makeup Services

Suzanne's special makeup effects skills are highly proficient in latex, gels, silicone, and plastic mediums, along with custom pigmenting and finishing. Her broad range of skills and techniques produces realistic to the eye renderings for fantasy character designs, casualty and combat injury simulation, aging, or period/historical makeup.

Suzanne’s abilities include prosthetic/appliance piece applications and finishing, skin casualty effects including skin disfiguration and trauma, disease/illness, combat/weapon trauma and injury (lacerations, burns, bruises, abrasions, bullet hits, stabs, eviscerations, amputations, etc), bald cap application, and non-surgical temporary skin lifts. For specialized shop sculpted prosthetics or custom made appliances she can outsource your needs, and partners with several outstanding professionals in the industry to meet your exact specifications in producing a high quality "realistic to the eye" on camera product.

Suzanne is also skilled in custom creation and application of temporary skin tattoos and body art, and can also provide complete makeup coverage over real tattoos. She also provides paramedical/corrective makeup for dermatology, cancer, and burn patients. Suzanne possesses technical expertise and wealth of experience in hair styling, and her skill range also includes false hair applications (hair and facial pieces, beards, wigs, etc.) using several different techniques according to the production requirements.

Rate quotes for special makeup effects services and projects are available upon request. Contact Suzanne with your particulars.

Special FX Photo Gallery:

Male aging - before & after (non-prosthetic)

Female aging - before & after (non-prosthetic)

Male bald cap application - before & after

Female bald cap application - before & after

(L) 1-day bruise simulation (R) 2-day bruise simulation

Fresh chemical burn simulation

Simulated car accident victim staged for doctors in an actual Hospital Emergency Room
Howard Univeristy Hospital, Washington, DC

Blood hematoma (L) and burst hematoma (R) simulation

Severe third degree burn special effects makeup from the television show:
The Cole Conspiracy, shown on the History Channel.
Prosthetic appliance process and final product

Scrape injury simulations

Sleepless and Stressed
Beard stubble applied by hand

Tattoo coverage - before & after

Tattoo coverage - before & after

Actor portraying Tommy Lee Jones
for a television commercial spoof of "The Fugitive"
Hair and prosthetics used to create likeness

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Suzanne Patterson (Professional Makeup Artist) is a Virginia makeup artist who works primarily in the Washington, DC, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and North Carolina regional markets, as well as other National makeup artist markets. Suzanne provides exceptional makeup artistry for clients who want the very best in professional makeup application for their project or production. Suzanne's skills include airbrush makeup application, hand applied makeup, hair styling, wardrobe styling, and special makeup effects (FX) for advertising, entertainment, and commercial productions in video, print, film, photography, televsion, live broadcast, and stage. As a Team Emmy Award winning artist with over 30 years experience, Suzanne Patterson also teaches and instructs aspiring and professional makeup artists in makeup artistry fundamentals and advanced makeup techniques, airbrush makeup, color and light theory as related to makeup. Suzanne offers information about makeup products and gives recommendations and advice on products for professional and personal use on her Recommendations page, helping with guidance and advice to all makeup artists working in many makeup artistry venues worldwide. Her makeup, special makeup effects, wardrobe styling and hair styling resume and client list is extensive, including all major television and cable networks, magazine and print publications. She has worked with many major political and corporate high profile clients and celebrities as well as many entertainment celebrities both local and national. Suzanne Patterson of Creative Artistry & FX, professional makeup artist, airbrush artist, hair stylist, wardrobe stylist, special effects (FX) makeup artist, airbrush instructor tteacher, writer.