Face Painting During Cold and Flu Season
Since hygiene should be a face painter’s top priority, face painting during the cold and flu season can be kind of tricky.
There are two issues that a Massachusetts face painter will run into during the cold and flu season: 1) turning away sick kids and 2) knowing when you are too sick to face paint. Read more
How Does Your Face Painting Style Differ From Mine?
We all have tigers, we all have dogs and cats but somehow we all manage to make our face painting designs seem a little different from everyone else’s. This is mainly because of our different face painting styles.
I think it’s really great that you can sit two painters down, give them the same supplies, and the same face painting design yet somehow the results are unique.
My face painting style relies heavily on powders such as Starblend. I use Starblend powders in just about every single face painting design that I do.
They mainly make up the base of my design but I also rely upon the Starblend for shading and highlighting.
Since powders go on dry, I find that they are an excellent way to paint small children… less for them to smear. This is why I also have begun using powders on some of my cheek art designs.
If you take a look at the picture of the lady but on this page, you may be surprised to find that I used Starblend powder for the body and the head of this design. I then detail and outline using wolfe brothers black. This technique calls for less drying time so it just makes sense when painting small children.
I would be interested to hear from anyone else out there that utilizes powders as much as I do in their face painting designs. I would also love to hear how your face painting style differs from mine.