Face Painting at Surf Jam

Me, Rebecca & Naomi provided face painting at my children's school for their annual carnival called Surf Jam. Here is my booth, but not completely set-up yet, but at least you get the idea. We just did quick designs of half faces or masks for $5 and had a steady line the entire event. My friend Mary is a Heriatage Makers consultant and shared the booth with us. She took the photos of the finished faces, got the parent's email to send them a link of the photo gallery so they can purchase photos if they want. It was so helpful having her there and to take pictures and made for faster painting for us!

I also sold candy tubes which were a big hit with the kids. Plus, it gave them something to do while waiting to get face painted. Check out my website for the sandy candy at Colorful Candy Art.

Here is my "Cheater Cheetah" meaning it is my quick, three minute cheetah design:

Here the kids are making their candy tubes. Wow, look in the left side corner, behind the blonde boy - she is throwin' it back!

Thank You Jodi!

Jodi Carr's workshop was excellent! Here she is demonstrating her monster dragon on my son.

She taught us with her Wolfe split cakes how to quickly paint a flower, dragon, dolphin, sunset scene, and tiara. And since she is the only US distributor for Fantasy Worldwide face painting creams she showed us different designs how to use the Fantasy. Which I love the shimmer colors! Stop by her website and check out the products she has for sale.

From Russia With Love - Their Face Painting Class

My best friend has been visiting Russian orphanages with her church Capo Beach Calvary for the past three years. While they are making a circuit of visiting hundreds of orphaned children in orphanages, the team provides them with a fun day filled with candy, games, toys and face painting. Mind you, these children may only receive for their birthday one piece of chocolate. So when this team arrives, they love every minute of their visit!

Our famous Orange County photographer Joe Photo went last year to Russia, and took professional shots of of their visit (click here to view the Russian article - in the group pic, my friend is second from the left in the pink jacket). Please read the article, it will give you some realty of how blessed we are. From his photos, I noticed they were using acrylic paints to paint the children's faces with.

Y'all know how I feel about acrylic paints used for face painting. *eye twitching*

So I gently educated my friend about how there are many wonderful products just for face painting, and offered to conduct a class to show some of the team how to use them.

Here are some photos of my class for the Russia team:

It was a lot of fun, but it went by so fast and we ran out of time! Hopefully they will take their Snazaroo Rainbow palette and practice, practice, practice.

I appreciate all their commitment and efforts, and wish the team well. I will be praying for their trip - they leave on May 30th.

Newsworthy Face Painting

Yesterday Rebecca and I did face painting at the Silverado Childrens Center's Chili Cook-Off out at Irvine Lake. I had just finished face painting a boy and a guy starting snapping away, and he was from the Orange County Register.

I took a photo of him, taking a photo of the boy:

And this is the photographer's image that was used online at OC Register's photo slideshow of the reported event:

Photo by Jebb Harris, Orange County Register

I had just gotten my new shatterproof, child-friendly mirror and this was the first gig where I was able to use it. I love it! It is big, and crystal clear (not like other acrylic mirrors that are cloudy and warp their image) so the kids can look as long as they like and make faces with their new look!

Happy Keester!

Sorry, I am BEHIND on posting a Happy Easter wish!

F.A.B.A.I.C. Instructors Coming to Orange County

This year the Face & Body Art International Convention will be held May 21-26 in Orlando, FL.

Unfortunately, I won't be able to attend and really wish I could go (I'll gladly accept any sponsorships or barters)!

BUT, some of the world's best instructors will be taking it "On the Road" after the F.A.B.A.I.C. convention.

I have the great honor of being the point person and event planner for their stay in Orange County. I was thrilled when I was able to convince Marcela Murad, the producer of F.A.B.A.I.C. to come to OC, and to allow me to coordinate the location, set-up, A/V, food etc.

So we are excited to have the following international instructors visiting:

Lynne Jamieson (Australia)

Jinny (Canada)

Marcela Murad (USA)

Special guests: Fairy Emilie and Kelly Virgona (Australia)

Event Info:

June 4th - 5th, 2008 - Orange County, California

Best Western Laguna El Toro Inn

23702 Rockfield Blvd.

Lake Forest, California 92630-2878

(949) 458-1900

Mention F.A.B.A.I.C. or Romanza Events for the group rate discount on rooms

(Do not call Best Western's central, toll-free number or you will not get the discounted rate)

Free Shuttle service to John Wayne Airport during the week, call the hotel for the schedule.

Doors will open at 5:00pm on the first day, followed by a pizza party and a jam session. Jinny and Lynne will do a hands-on body painting jam while Emile and Marcela help with the ones that want to face paint.

World Face and Body Art Alliance certifications will be conducted at this time.
Jam session ends at 10:00pm.

The following day will start at 9:00am and go until 5:00pm with hands-on classes and demos by all of the instructors. Lunch is included.

Jam only $ 50.00

Class Only $ 175.00

Both $ 200.00

To register, go to the F.A.B.A.I.C. registration page (this does not include your hotel portion).

We hope to see you there, and be sure to find me at the event and say Hey!

Mark Reid's Face Painting Workshop

I haven't had the chance to update this blog in a while, so I wanted to post about the amazing face painting workshop I assisted with coordinating and attending mid-January. Mark Reid is an incredible and gifted face and body artist, and we had the pleasure of getting to see him in action. He taught approximately 14 face painters from this area. Here he is painting step-by-step a "hulk" monster design on my son who was one of the models.

We had such a great time, and Mark is just the funniest, sweetest guy and was so helpful in guiding us along to better our brush strokes, lines and blending etc. If you are a face painter and can take the opportunity to take Mark's class, I highly recommend it!