“Have You Caught the Face Painting Bug?”
By Sarah Le Clus

Symptoms: pictures of colors, swirls, tear drops, spiders, monsters, sponges and brushes passing before your minds eye at frequent intervals during both waking and sleeping hours. 

Highly contagious!!!

Cure: Extensive research has so far not reached any conclusions!!!

I caught it and I’m loving it!So to all face painters! Keep at it!

Cheers,

Sarah
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Thank you for sending this in Sarah! Beautiful designs, well done. I think we’ve all got that bug around here! 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!

As always, click on any photo in these entry posts to see a full-size version.

Happy Face Painting,

Philadelphia Tivoli

P.S Click here for face painting designs  with step-by-step with photos and instructions!

Click here to leave a comment, ask questions or tell us what you think! 
(Sorry about the swirl, I didn’t realise I was in the way until I was editing the video…woops!!)

Happy Face Painting,

Philadelphia Tivoli
P.S Interested in learning more face painting designs? Click here now!

“Find Your Brush!”
By Cheryl Henderson aka Mrs. Bunny, The Clown
I recently had the opportunity to do face painting for a one year old’s party. The birthday girl didn’t have a clue to what was going on, but the older kids and adults were scrambling to get into my chair. This is a far cry from my early days when the kids would take one look at my feeble designs and head for the high ground! Back then, I only did cheek art because I thought it was easier and safer for a non-artist like myself. Boy, was I wrong! A wonderful person named BeBe, The Clown opened my eyes to the world of the sponge and full face painting. I am forever grateful!

I always carry pictures of face painting designs to help me remember them. At the one year old’s party, the kids would look at the designs and want me to do their faces exactly like the picture. But since I had grown (a little!) as a face painter I was able to do the design, but in my own style. After they saw the finished product they forgot all about the picture! That taught me a valuable lesson: do it your own way! I can’t capture the style of someone else because, frankly, I’m not them! I can look at the design and make it my own by changing the stroke or color, by adding a line or tear drop or some glitter. The key thing is to face paint according to the picture you have found in your heart; your own heart! The more I tried to do a design exactly like Heather or Philly, the more frustrated I became. What made it worse was that I couldn’t remember everything they did so I would go back to the video and watch it over and over and I still couldn’t get it!

Then I remembered Heather said that we didn’t have to do it exactly like her, but to find a way that worked for us. That finally began to sink in. As I relaxed I began to “find my brush”. After this, ideas started forming and I was able to work more smoothly. Even my repeat customers could tell the difference! (I’ve attached some of my designs and a pix of me with my “Baby Bunny”. She loves to tickle!)

I did an outdoor festival recently. Although I was nervous, I saw it as a learning experience and an adventure because that’s what life is! I was concerned that I wouldn’t get many customers, but when the children (and some adults!) saw the designs the line formed and I worked about 3 hrs. straight! As I was leaving, a lady in the booth next to me jokingly said, “Maybe now the rest of us can make some money!” I guess I have arrived as a face painter. Yippeee!!!

Cheryl Henderson aka Mrs. Bunny, The Clown
http://www.mrsbunnytheclown.com

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Thank you for sending this in Mrs. Bunny The Clown, such an awesome lesson learnt here, I’m so glad you’ve ‘found your brush’ ! 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 contest click here.

Please leave a comment if you want to ask questions, or just want to offer encouragement!

Happy Face Painting,

Philadelphia Tivoli
P.S Click here for face painting designs  with step-by-step with photos and instructions!

“Halloween Face Painting!”
By June Thurston

Hi Philadelphia,

Had a great time this Halloween, I face painted at work all day to raise moneyfor Children in Need , it gave me a chance to practice every thing I havelearned and I had a lot of very happy children that day, with a lot of scaryfaces.

I managed to raise around £100 in the 7 hours I painted and I can’t waifor next year. Wished I had the time to take photo’s though, i thought you mightlike to see 1 face I did the night before for a Halloween party, he scaredeveryone in sight once he was dressed up as  a devil. And the other little’monster’ was a great hit.

June Thurston

http://www.freewebs.com/faeriefaces

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Thank you for sending this in June, those are some wicked Halloween face painting designs! 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 contest click here.

Please leave a comment if you want to ask questions, or just want to offer encouragement!

Happy Face Painting,

Philadelphia Tivoli
P.S Click here for Halloween face painting designs  with step-by-step with photos and instructions!

Enjoy the video:

Click here to leave a comment, I’d love to hear what you think!

Happy Face Painting,

Philadelphia Tivoli 
Want to learn how to face paint fun face painting designs? Then Click Here.

And if you want to learn face painting from home,
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Monday, November 3 2008
Face Painting Jam
San Jose, California, USA

Jams are for people interested in balloon twisting, face painting & glitter tattoos, magic, and any other children/family/corporate entertainment; for beginners, seasoned professionals and everyone else in between. Bring your ideas and laughter. If you have supplies, bring them. If you are new, we have extra.Contact Info
Name Cheryl
Phone 510-468-0931
eMail pockets@bayareastars.com

Event Location Info
Round Table Pizza
4400 Stevens Creek Boulevard
San Jose, California 95129

November 16th from 11:00-1:00
Face Painting Class 
Huntington Beach, California, USA.

I am teaching a face painting class at my home on Sunday morning November 16th from 11:00-1:00. Call for reservations 1-714-719-8273. Kari Ivey.

Thursday-Friday, November 6-7 2008
Face Painting Class
Round Hill, Virginia, USA

Hands on tutorial on line work, her set up, some fast faces. Hands on eye designs and highlights and shadows… where the black line should go and where you should and should not put swirls and teardrops. The second day will be hands on monster faces and other boy designs. Where to shade and highlight the face. How to paint angry eyes and horns. Re-create any face you have seen and not done. Business and marketing ideas will be kept to break times and towards the end of a section.

Contact Info

Name Kerry Ann Smith
Phone 540-554-2168
eMail carolturmanva@aol.com

Event Location Info
Round Hill, Virginia, USA

www.snazaroo.com

Friday, November 7 2008
Face Painting JAM
Westminster Maryland USA

We just recently started this jam (last month) and hope to meet some other artists from the area as we go along. We had an artist and a twister form Frederick last month come out and we all had a great time.

The space is not huge ( bring a smalll kit?) , but adequate, with room enough to set up on their tables and create. The clientele are generally up for being experimented on. We used to paint there regularly last summer so they are pretty amenable. You can bring henna/ jagua/glitter/mica tatts to practice too, they really love that. We were allowed to accept tips last time and we basically had whoever painted the tipper to keep their tips.

They have GREAT coffee and some lite sandwich fare (also really good), so come out if you can. We will be trying to do this the first Friday of each month.Contact Info
Name Terry
eMail masqueradefaceandbodyart@faith??

Event Location Info
The Pour House
233 E Main St
Westminster, Maryland, USA

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The $50 Gift Certificate from Silly Farm Supplies
for the Best Author goes to:

Lisa Leyes for her entry: “Make the Child Happy” SF-Comp Entry! Congratulations Lisa, great work!  Keep it up, and we can’t wait to see more! You will be receiving your gift certificate within the next week.

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

Mollie Stofan! Great commentary and thank you very much for continuing to participate! 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 November Competition and keep making those great comments!

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

Happy Face Painting

Philadelphia Tivoli
Learn face painting designs by clicking here with step by step photos and instructions!

And if you’re not sure about ‘what to paint’ this halloween then let us take care of that!

We’ve created some seriously scary and fun face painting designs for Halloween so click here to download our Halloween Make Up Guide – It has 20 fantastic face painting designs with easy step by step photos and instructions that kids and adults love!

But don’t take my word for it…Watch the video to find out what people are saying about “Halloween Make Up Guide”

Happy Halloween Face Painting

Philadelphia Tivoli
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You’ll find 20 fun Halloween face painting designs with easy step by step photo and instructions that you can download right now and start painting today!

You’ll have the best Halloween costume with our halloween face painting designs, ideas and tips… so you’ll be the envy of all of your friends so download The Halloween Make Up Guide ebook right now, right here:
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Happy Halloween Face Painting

Philadelphia Tivoli
P.s Learn some seriously spooky halloween face painting designs by clicking here!

–And remember if you want to create some seriously scary and fun face painting designs this Halloween then click here to download our Halloween Make Up Guide for 20 fantastic face painting designs with step by step photos and instructions!

Click here to leave comments!

Happy Halloween Face Painting

Philadelphia Tivoli
www.FacePaintingTips.com/halloween