To the clowns out there that do face painting, you have

my respect. That is for sure............I did one hour

yesterday and 5 hours today. I am just exhausted.

At first my painting were awful and I am serious.

By the end of today some of them looked pretty good.

The kids were nice and that helped a lot.

yea, you survived. I'm going to do face painting sat. havent even practiced yet. I am somewhat artistict so hopefully wont be to bad.

Did you do simple things or all over paint?

Also do you know the going rate for face painting? I am doing it for charity at last half will go for that, other half will go foe expence. Make-up babysitter etc.

pricing depends some what on what your location will support and talent, $5.00 for full face, 2-3 for cheek art.

Glad it went so well. It takes practice skin is harder than paper, I've had a few drawings and one painting exhibited years ago, canvas is easier than young wiggly skin, whose tickles easily and they want to see before you're finished.

For me I found that the most popular things to facepaint was

butterlys, spiders, frogs, hearts, clouds with rainbows, puppy,

kitty, bunny and unicorn.

I have a sheet with all the things I can face paint. I ask the child

to pick the one they want.

Congratulations! I'm sure the kids loved it.

I've not done much face painting, but we started
out with some rubber stamps from snazaroo that
we could use to outline "cheek art" - football, star,
frog, dinosaur, etc. and then "filled in" with paint.

Our designs looked pretty amateurish because they
were. They also took a lot longer than I thought
they would - we thought that because they were
small they would be fast. But the designs were
hard to fill in.

A good face painter could do a "full face" design
faster than we could do this "cheek art."


We went to Mooseburger "On The Road" in Arlington,
TX earlier this year and Mama Clown was one of the
instructors and she did some face painting classes.

She made it look EASY, but I know it isn't!

She used a lot of dry paints with a wide sponge or brush
to apply. She applied it like you would apply blush
or rouge, and then added outlines in black, and then
highlights in white.

She sells supplies and instructional videos on her web site:
http://www.silyfarm.com

Keep on practicing!

Ashes

Well just like anything else, the more you do it the easier it will become. I've been painting faces for a while now and I still have bad days. Some days the faces will look great and others look like I'd never picked up a brush in my life.

GiGi :)

Thanks for the link, Ashes, I bought some things

from sily farm. Yeah.. I am anxious to use

good paint. I think it will make a big difference.

The saying practice makes perfect may be true in

this case. I was terrible when I first started but with

practice I can honestly see I have improved.

I am still doing the costume characters and that is

also getting a bit easier.