Hello Mr. Blasco!

I am writing you to see how you are doing and also to tell you a little bit about what I have been doing the last 8 months. I spoke to Lena the other day who told me that she had just been visiting your school in Los Angeles.

After flying back to Europe in July of last year, I spent a month at Gorton and Painter FX (Saving Private Ryan, Gladiator, Alice in Wonderland). I worked for them constructing and painting silicone bodies for a BBC Sherlock Holmes movie. I then moved on to paint a few things for the then ongoing project, "The Tenth Kingdom". I flew back to Sweden where I spent 3 weeks before I got a call about this upcoming war movie that the company was doing. I flew back to London and spent 2 months in the workshop before we headed down to Beirut for shooting. I was down there until Christmas of last year and I got a lot of experience since I got to work with some brilliant artists.

I am now back at the same shop, working on Johnny Depp's new movie, "From Hell". It is the Jack the Ripper story and we are fabricating the 5 female victims as well as a full body prosthetic of the elephant man. I will go down to Prague in June for shooting and I will get to do a lot of application work. We are also making up Johnny Depp to look 70 years old, which is going to be great.

I have ordered a lot of make-up from Matthew Mungle that will work great on this new material we are using. I am also using your make-up bases for coloring the silicone and that works beautiful since the colors are so great.

I use the techniques you taught me every day and I can really tell how much it benefits me by comparing with other artists who have not taken your course. Thank you for all the knowledge that I obtained as a student. I hope everything else is great at the school and please say hello to everyone for me.

Thank you for your time and I hope to hear from you.

Sincerely,

Henrik Svensson
Make-up Center West Graduate