Face Painting Practise.

So yesterday I mentioned how I was practising my face painting skills on my Mum. It's one of the modules of my course along with Body Art. As my end of year assessment is going to be face/body paint related I wanted to brush up on my skills and cross off some of my assessments.

First up on the list I had to cross off was Insect. As I'm not really any good at painting faces I decided to start with something fairly easy such as a Butterfly. You'll have to excuse my really poor face painting skills. I'm hoping with a bit of practise I'll get better.

The blue base is Superstar Minty Blue. I wet my brush, added water and mixed to a creamy mayonnaise like consistency. The paint went on really easy and gave a nice even colour all over. I then used Snazaroo for the black and white detail and added a bit of Superstar Glitter gel in Aurora. You can't really see it very well in the picture but I'll do some swatches of all the colours later.

Next up on the list was Animal, for this I did a Tiger. As this was likely to be the design I'd be using the most when I have to paint kids faces at Hollywood bowl for another assessment I wanted to get some practise in first.

 

 

I started with the orange first which was Superstar Orange. Then Superstar Mid Yellow for the bottom. I didn't want a harsh line between the two so I just wet my brush and mixed the colours on the face. I used Snazaroo Black and White for the detailing. I don't know if I didn't let the Orange dry but when I painted on the White bits I noticed the Orange mixed in with the White. Again the colours were really easy to use and went on really even.

The only other issue with this design was the Orange face paint which took quite a bit of effort to budge. After a few attempts using baby wipes then soap and water we found a creamy cleanser the best thing to remove it. Probably best I use another Orange on the kids at Hollywood Bowl as I don't want to be getting any complaints from angry Mums!

 

Next up was a Cartoon Character. Everyone else at College had done Spiderman but I decided to go for something a little bit different. I'd seen lots of amazing Cheshire Cat designs online and it's been something I've wanted to do on myself for a long while.

 

 

 

 

The Purple I used was Superstar in Purple. This colour didn't really go on as evenly as the others. I'm not sure if it was my bad application skills or the paint itself. The Pink used is Grimas in Pink.

I tried mixing some of the colours to get the darker Pink for the nose and a darker Purple for some of the detail but I found this quite difficult. I'm not sure if it was down the using different brands and the different textures of the products. Either way both me and my mum had had enough of face painting and decided to call it a day!