Hello Face Painters,

With Valentines Day drawing close I have a  Step by Step design for you. I actually paint this design all year round, Heart Princesses are alway popular!

Step 1:  Paint the eyelids, from the inner corners of each eye to a point beyond the eyebrow. I have used a mixture of Paradise “Beach Berry” and Kryolan UV red. Any pink, red or other color will be fine. Add a love heart to the centre of the brows and on one side under the outer side of the eye.

Step 2: Using white, outline the hearts and eyes.

Step 3: add swirls and teardrops to join the components of the design and create a crown.

Step 4: add some dots in white. Then add black lowlight lines under the white line to bring the design out more.

Step 5: add some white highlights to the pink to give if more dimension. Also note this slight variation on the design…they usually turn out a little different to each other! Glitter can be added too.

I hope you all have a very romantic, and creative Valentine’s day.

xxx

I am running regular workshops in Melbourne and have a comprehensive Split Cake workshop coming up on Febuary 11 in Footscray.

learn foundation techniques and many fast, impressive designs to speed up your Face Painting readers will recieve free one stroke brushes at the workshop.

Other Melbourne workshops include Beginners: tips, tricks and techniques and Jewelery, lace, masks and more – see my website for more details about these.

South-Eastern Queensland Workshops will be July 12 – 17th 2010

Tasmania workshops: Launcestern April 21st, 22nd and 23rd, Hobart 20th, 24th and 25th April.

Adelaide, Perth and Sydney Dates are still to be announced.

For more information about these workshops please visit my website : www.ambah.com.au or contact me ambah@ambah.com.au

Happy Painting!

Ambah

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Our Face Painting Tips Forum (Face Painting Chat) is a great place to ask questions about face painting, and the ideas and techniques that you’ll learn in there are amazing!

Here’s a topic that I swiped about “Using Flat Brushes for Face Painting & ArtyBrush Cakes”, a problem you may have had… so I thought you’d find this very helpful…

SealMom (Lori): I have been trying to learn how to use my flat brushes, especially with the Arty Brush Cakes. My problem is keeping the bristles of the brush together as I paint things like flowers and leaves (as shown in the Arty Brush DVD). Is my brush too dry… or too wet? I have experimented time and again… or is it the way I’m holding the brush? I sure would appreciate some tips from those who are doing this successfully! )
Thanks!

Binkyfp (Brenda aka Binky the Face Painter ): Hi Sealmom… My experience with that is there wasnt enoigh paint loaded onto the brush. I used to spray my ABC’s [ArtyBrush Cakes] with a spritz of water, now I just dip my brush in water and remove the excess then run my brush back and forrth across the ABC several times and then paint…I’ve noticed, for me, that you can paint quite a bit doing that. let me know if that worked for you.

SealMom (Lori): Thanks Brenda… I’ll give that a try.

If you have any other face painting related questions check out our
Face Painting Tips Forum (Face Painting Chat) right here:
http://www.facepaintingtips.com/forum

Happy Face Painting!

Philadelphia Tivoli
FacePaintingTips.com

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Welcome to the New Year Face Painting Friends.

I am enjoying a few contemplative moments after an extremely busy Christmas period.  I have been painting faces, arms and backs at all kinds of events over the last couple of months: weddings, christmas parties, shopping centres, adult events, even on a boat sailing to Tasmania .

As always, I enjoy painting adults as well as children, and with the warmer weather – it is Summer here in Australia – I have had plenty of extra skin to paint on. I have loved painting wings onto ladies back – butterfly wings and feathery “Angel” wings too – the Ladies love them as much as they do when I paint jewlery onto them!  I think no bare back will escape my paint brush for a while , its so much fun!!

These designs have been really popular at the Weddings,  see the image below where I have painted the Bride’s back with roses to match her lovely pink gown. I have put together images of some of the many adults I have painted over the last month – so much fun! All of the pictures have been painted in a few minutes or less, during busy jobs with big line – ups.

Check out the Christmas elf – he may be my oldest customer yet!

looking at these pretty pink & girly pictures I am feeling very romantic! I have a Valentine’s step by step planned for you for next month.

classes for 2010:

Melbourne Classes for early 2010 have been announced on my website – there is something for beginners to advanced painters. Have a look at www.ambah.com.au and contact me for more information on the class you are interested in.

I have also set dates for Tasmanian workshops for 31st March/1st & 2nd April 2010.

I am currently planning dates for Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, Sydney & New Zealand Workshops in 2010.

If you would like to attend  in a workshop  please e-mail me at ambah@ambah.com.au to register your interest  and to go on my mailing list for workshops in your area.

Happy Painting in 2010!

Ambah

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( Please Click Here to Leave comments and tell us what you think!)

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Hello face painting friends,

I was most excited when Philadelphia invited me to be a regular contributer here. I will be posting monthly chit chat about my life & experiences as a Face & Body Painter. I am more adept with a paintbrush than a keyboard so please bear with me as I warm up to my regular posts….

Christmas has well and truly begun! I have painted at several christmas events in the last week, making great use of my split cakes – these really make face painting so much faster. I had been using split cakes here and there over the last couple of years but I have to say meeting and learning from Rebecca of Arty Brush Strokes in Febuary this year has revolutionalised split cakes for me.

Rebecca comes from a Folk Art background and applied the flat brush techniques to face painting with amazing results and since then split cakes have really taken off! Rebecca has collaborated with sillyfarm.com to produce arty brush cakes, a collection of split cakes in striking combinations to be used for all kinds of creations, they have also put out a DVD. Heather regularly posts fantastic split cake demonstrations in the video corner of the sillyfarm website, these are really worth checking out.

Earlier this year I had the pleasure of visiting Silly farm and made a video for Heather, featuring split cakes – I use a “filbert” shape brush in this to demonstrate one of my most popular eye designs. you can check this out here:

Click here to view the embedded video.

I have developed many of my own split cake designs and am always looking for inspiration for more, I have quite a repitoire of super-fast designs for christmas that I have been using for the busy christmas events. They are so fast, yet people just go “wow” over the designs – I almost feel as though I am cheating!

Working with the flat brush does take a little getting used to, so I have started to teach split cake workshops where I go over the fundmentals of using the flat brush and share some of my designs.

I have workshops coming up December 7th & 9th in Melbourne, Australia to find out more about these and my future workshops please visit www.ambah.com.au and contact  me to receive information on upcoming workshops in your part of the world!

I wish you all a Joyful Festive Season and look forward to writing again in the new year.

I have a picture here , my son as a christmas elf, painted for our Family Christmas card.

Happy Painting!

Ambah O’Brien
www.ambah.com.au

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(It was sooo hard to pick this month, thank you so much for all the brilliant posts sent in this month!)
Here are the competition winners:

The $50 Gift Certificate from Silly Farm Supplies
For The Best Contributor goes to:
Marion Mitchell!

For “Do What You Love & You’ll Never Work a Day In Your Life” Congratulations Marion…great article, charity work is so beneficial in so many ways and for so many people! Keep an eye out in your inbox for your prize Marion

The $10 Certificate from Silly Farm Supplies for the Best Commenter goes to: Kathy Stanton!

Happy to know you’re enjoying the blog You will be receiving your gift certificate within the next week!

Thank you all again for participating, your stories have been helpful to more people than you think! You can start sending in your entries for the December Competition and, of course, add to our discussion by making comments one each blog post right away!

To get all the info on the competition click on this link: Silly Farm Competition.

Happy Face Painting

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This is an entry sent in for our monthly
Silly Farm Supplies Competition!

“No Job Too Small – Face Painting Heart to Heart”
by Alana Dill

To me, face painting is much more than a way to make a quick buck.  Certainly it’s a challenge to paint on a canvas that wiggles or giggles or wants to chat because it slows us down a bit. This kind of low-volume, quiet face painting isn’t very profitable financially, but it’s got perks. I get great referrals. I feel closer to the human race.  I’ve had the pleasure of bringing out a sense of fun and adventure in the elderly and the jaded.  I’ve helped very small children overcome fears and set aside tantrums (because I can’t paint someone who’s screaming or crying, and when I tell them that firmly, they pull themselves together).

I’ve stood up for  boys who wanted to be painted like butterflies and girls who wanted mustaches or scary faces. What more wonderful thing can there be, than to help someone feel more like their heart’s desire?  I really do enjoy the transformation and sense of surprise; but what I really hope for is to enhance my clients’ sense of self. I get the most satisfaction when I’m painting with, not just my skills, but my heart.

I’ve been painting for several years now and occasionally the person in the chair really needs to talk.  It must be something that hairdressers and bartenders experience all the time (not to mention therapists). I wouldn’t want to be a therapist, but I treasure these small moments; usually they happen when there’s little or no line and we have an oasis of quiet. Although there are tricks to keeping a customer quiet, if I have time I will try to pick up on that cue and paint their hand, arm, or a mask instead of a full face.  Several children have had me paint portraits of a deceased pet on their hand or cheek, or the name of an absent or dead loved one.

I’ve had a tough teen boy declare his love for his girl right there on his arm for everyone to see (to her immense pride and delight as she watched her name materialize). When I’ve painted baby bumps, I’ve gotten to discuss the mom’s hopes and dreams (sometimes fears) for her expected child.  One little girl at a slumber party told me how she dreaded going home on Sunday morning because the day would be ruined by her grumpy mom’s hangover.

She got to be a princess – a strong and patient princess – for the evening. I’ve had a boisterous young man at a bar confess very quietly to me that he was afraid (at 28) that he’d never find love and was a failure in life. But he was a rock star for the night, and he got some attention from a pretty girl or two, and maybe it was nice for him to hear “I’m old enough to be your mom, and I can tell you that you haven’t even started yet. So have some faith in yourself -  if you don’t like what you’re doing, you have the power to change it”.

I’ve helped “ugly duckling” sisters transform into  beautiful swans. I always tell them – “This is just glamour – it washes off. You’re beautiful and that comes from the inside out”. I’ve worked gently and carefully with learning disabled kids – who are so excited to be painted but must marshal all their will to have their faces touched, to sit still or to point their nose in my general direction. And I have honored the children who say “NO!” – if they are at all curious but not sure,  I might offer to paint their caregiver instead, or let them slowly ease in with a tiny brushstroke on their hand. In the end they make the decision of whether and where they’ll be painted (with parent permission, of course!).

I’m happy to have a big line and do 3-minute designs; I’m happy to have an hour to do a customized full-head or body design for a special occasion.  I’m just happy to paint. Of course I would LOVE to get rich painting and I know volume is a big part of that. I plan to expand into airbrush tattoos and develop my skills with freehand glitter tattoos, but painting really is my first love.  I hope that other painters who are accustomed to high-volume rush will occasionally take on those small, intimate jobs that let us get to know our subjects a little better.

I know that, no matter how fast and loose I get, I’ll always treasure those times when I’m able to provide a little extra time and attention to someone who really needs it.

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Thank you for sending this in Alana! I’ll be posting the rest of the entries until the end of November when I announce the winner. To find out more and enter the face painting Silly Farm Supplies Competition. Please leave a comment if you want to ask questions, or just want to offer encouragement!

Happy Face Painting,

Philadelphia Tivoli
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