Face Painting Tips

Face Painting Ideas for Young and Old

A Managed Blogger — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 06:27:39 +0000

Kids of all ages delight in seeing their painted faces. There is something primal and yet reassuring when one peers out behind a mask or painted face at the strange and wonderful new you. It’s a bit of a shock at times, often surprisingly but nearly always delightful in the end.

Face painting takes just a few simple skills to master to provide maximum appeal. Face painting ideas can come from anyone and anything, including fantastical elements from literature and film, mundane everyday items that get transformed with a bit of creativity into something unique– even dreams and fantasies can provide fertile raw materials from which to harvest face painting ideas.

Certain themes seem to be favored by girls while others by boys. For example, girls often enjoy having their faces painted along the following lines: butterflies, cats, cuddle animals, puppies, fairies, princesses, bunny rabbits and other small furry creatures, ladybugs, flowers, elves, rainbows and mermaids.

Boys often enjoy being painted as superheroes (like Spiderman or Batman), pirates, more ferocious animals like tigers or lions, bats and other ‘spooky’ creatures, clowns, aliens, robots, rock stars and adventure characters.

Both girls and boys share many of the same face painting ideas when it comes to Halloween: ghosts, witches, warlocks, devils, skulls, spider webs, bats, black cats, monsters, aliens, clowns and magical beings of all sorts.

Face painting ideas for adults run the gamut from the comical to the merely whimsical, from the horrifying to the sedate, and from the prosaic to the sublime. It is not uncommon for adults to toss their inhibitions aside and cover themselves with 40 pounds of insulating foam and paint, pieces of furniture or gallons of dyed sugary syrup designed to mimic blood and gore.

Whatever your gender or age, your imagination and natural likes and dislikes will determine what you will end up looking like when you have your face painted. Before you go too crazy letting your imagination run riot, please keep in mind the following safety precautions about face painting:

Do not use toxic paints or ones that induce allergic reactions
Do not use paints that are flammable or otherwise dangerous
Make sure that all applications of paint, makeup, gels, pastes and other substances are easy to remove without damaging your skin
Plan your designs carefully to maximize enjoyment and minimize possible problems
Do not use inappropriate tools when applying paints
Keep paints and other substances well away from eyeballs, inner ears, the insides of the nostrils or mouth

That’s it! Keep it simple, sane and creative. Have fun and enjoy your new face!

Face Painting for Fun

A Managed Blogger — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 06:22:55 +0000

Face painting is a delightfully creative way to provide hours of fun children and adults alike. It is surprisingly easy to create your masterpiece on someone’s face – or on your own if you are the adventurous type – using simple techniques and tools no more complicated than a brush, a bit of non-toxic paint and a sponge.

Painting faces goes back thousands of years in human history. Our earliest ancestors often dabbed soot, blood, clay, earth or other pigments on their bodies to mark important rites of passage, indicate status or special achievements, or to invoke supernatural powers.

As time went on, simple the patterns became more complex and simple patterns gave way to more permanent ones made with indelible inks and tattooing techniques.

Today, face painting is a great way to role play without having to deal with the often negative social consequences of permanently marking the body and face. It is generally easy to obtain the necessary paints and simple to clean up the results when it’s time to put your own face back on.

No longer just for children, both adults and kids enjoy having painted faces on occasion. Common modern motifs for modern face painting include animals, fantasy characters, monsters and demons, supernatural beings, pirates, witches and wizards, nature themes, tribal markings, abstract designs, historical and cultural figures and many more.

There are some online resources that should be checked out by anyone interested in pursuing the art form. A little research on the major search engines should provide several options for painting faces, including:

· Suppliers of non-toxic paints· Art supplies like artist’s brushes, air brushes, charcoal, chalk, glitter and other decorations· Protecting eyes, ears and other sensitive areas from the paints themselves

· Avoiding smudging

· Testing for allergic reactions

· Painting accurate and symmetric designs

· How to use common household items like sponges, paper towels and tissues· How to remove face paint when finished· How to use face paints with other forms of facial pigments like makeup

· Creating shimmer and sparkle effects

Sites like www.facepaintingtips.com offer advice and resources for many things needed to paint faces. For best results, especially when first learning how to paint faces, pick sources of information that illustrate each step of the process, provide plenty of examples and clear explanations that will enable you to practice your craft and gain more expertise over time.

Australian Company Goes Face to Face with Customers: Comprehensive Face Painting Guides For Everyone

A Managed Blogger — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:00:33 +0000

Company now offers downloadable eBooks for face painting enthusiasts. Face Painting Tips brings professional tools, techniques and designs to every budding face artist, young or old.

Sydney, Australia (IPRWIRE) Fri. Sep. 12th, 2008 — Face Painting Tips (www.FacePaintingTips.com) markets a line of easily downloadable eBooks geared toward face painting enthusiasts who do not have access to teachers nor the time to take a class. Face painting, a venerable art form stretching back thousands of years to the flickering firelight of our ancestors caves, is now available in the 21st century to everyone in a series of self-paced guides with copious photographs and instructions that make it easy for determined face painters to learn or refine their craft.

Recently enjoying a surge in popularity, face painting is now in high demand around the holidays and for special occasions. The trouble is that there are very few qualified face painting teachers available to meet that demand and a surprising lack of clear instructions for the more adventurous self-learners among us.

Face Painting Tips, brush ever at the ready, answered the need with a few bold strokes and quicker than your darling daughters can sprinkle magic fairy dust over the candy bowl, VOILA! The Comprehensive Guide to Face Painting was born, destined to be downloaded and printed off in PDF form for the masses.

The Guide is the brainchild of Face Paintings Tips founder, Philadelphia Tivoli. “We founded Face Painting Tips in 2006 to teach the techniques to an international audience using the same high standards professional face artists have developed over the years. So far the response has been phenomenal! We are attending Australia 1st International Face & Body Painters and Entertainers Convention on 8-12 September of this year and aim to raise the bar for professional face painters.”