Face Painting Techniques

Using Flat Brushes for Artybrush Cakes

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 [...]

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3 Tips for Your Face Painting Brushes Video

Hi  there, I got 3 great tips for storing brushes, cleaning brushes and rescuing old brushes! Buy Face Painting Supplies Right Here! Buy Face Painting Supplies Right Here! Click here to Leave a comment, tell us what you think, ask a question or offer your own tips! Tips for those of you who want to read them instead:

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Round Brush Brushstrokes Techniques Video

I found a great video by Donna Dewberry who will show you how to paint beautiful scroll work - curls, twirls, letters and leaves with a round brush. Now, she uses a canvas, but you can apply these techniques to face painting for fantastic looking princess and fairy masks. Watch the video, then practice the pressure/release exercises [...]

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How to Make Your Paintings Look 3D!

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Want to make your face painting designs look more 3D? They’ll instantly look more professional! Here’s the trick… it’s all about shadow and light. Practice with something simple, like say a red circle. Paint a red circle then think about where you want the light to be shining from, and where on the circle its shining. [...]

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How to Use Sponges for Face Painting Without the Streaks

Sponges are an amazing tool… when used correctly that is! Sponges are great for applying base coats with speed, but alot of face painters have the problem of not being able to apply the face paint without creating streaks. If you don’t want streaks, just follow these simple instructions: * First things first, you’ll get getter [...]

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Face Paint Designs Steps: Multi-Tone Flower

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Today I’m going to share with you a face painting technique that I really like to use, it’s a technique that will allow you to quickly paint simple face paint designs like a flower or a butterfly with a beautiful two toned effect! (Thanks to a lady named Jan who left a comment on our blog [...]

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How to Face Paint Curls and Swirls Video

Here’s another great video with some easy instructions on how to face paint a very popular face painting technique. It’ll show you how to face paint curls and swirls. This is a face painting technique that you can use in princess, fairy, even gothic face painting designs! Enjoy! (Youtube User: sillyheatherb) Click Here to Buy Face Paints! Tell me what [...]

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Animal Face Painting Techniques Video

Here’s a video that shows you a few different face painting techniques that you can use to make your animal face painting designs look amazing. Learn how to create a fur like effect, paint realistic looking cheetah spots and tiger stripes! Heather Banks Click Here to Buy Face Paints! I think these techniques are absolutely awesome, they’re [...]

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How to Apply Glitter to Your Face Painting Designs to Make Them Look Magical!

Using glitter is an inexpensive way to give your face painting designs the wow factor! They’re so simple to use and the absolutely kids love them. They’re are a few different types of glitter you can use on your face painting designs, so here’s a brief run down of each type of glitter and how to  apply them to [...]

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