Spiderman at the Grand Opening

Another Grand Opening Event at a Store tomorrow.  They hired me to do the Facepainting.  To make it Special for their first day's Customers. 

I turned my attention to Spiderman.  It's good to have more than one idea for Spiderman because that is requested at Almost every event. 



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American Beauties on the 4th of July

I'm getting ready for all those American Beauties that I will be Face Painting for Independence Day. 
Lol ~ I just love creating Roses.  I just painted a Lot of them in anticipation. 

Even looks great when I take a Black and White photo of it.  Perhaps I'll paint some in Black and White for some nighttime Adult Events too





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Introduction to Face Painting

An easy introduction to Face Painting for this young Party Guest. 
His Uncle brought him over for a 'Mike Tyson',
but I understood that the boy wouldn't know what to expect because he had never been Facepainted before.  So I took a few extra moments to talk to the boy.  And I showed him what it's like by First Facepainting a Spider on his Hand. 

It went like a charm.  Such a cutey.  From the moment he sat down through showing him the mirror.





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Just a Nice Day

So much turmoil in the News.  It's good to see that there is also good normal stuff going on.  Families simply coming out for a Fun Festival.

So many people are doing that.  Here are just a few of the Face Paintings that I did this time.  Just helping the people to Play: 























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Humility

It was an exercise in humility for me to take this job.  I'm better than that.  I'm an Arteest. 

I agreed to do cheap little Children's Tattoos for yet another Client who didn't understand the high quality FREEHAND TemporaryTattoos that I create. As per my website:

 http://caricatureexpress.com/tattoos-at-pool-party

Humility.  I'm accustomed to admiration for my Artwork.  But I had to remind myself that that's not what I'm hired for.  I'm not there to aggrandize myself.  I'm hired to help the Guests Enjoy the Party. 

Once I got there, I felt fine.  Not hired for my Art Skills This time, I used my People Skills.  My Party Skills.  Both Children And Adults were Happy with this simple activity.   They didn't know what else is out there.  They didn't know just how glamorous they could feel with the better Artwork.  So they were fine.  Happy with the Children.  Happy with each other.  Happily choosing which embellishment they wanted.  Hey ~ I remember a simpler time in my life too.  As a little girl when a grown-up would 'magically' transfer the image from the paper to my arm. 



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Whether it be Children's Temporary Tattoos like these, the edgier Freehand Temporary Tattoos, or

Face Painting

Caricatures

Digital Caricatures

Fashion Sketches

We can All Feel Pretty

Come on now ~ I can see that Joy in you

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Another Satisfied Guest

and here's another one.  a girl who was so enamored with the Facepainting that I designed for her







Oh there's nothing better.  Can't we all relate to how this girl is feeling?  Reminds me of the song I sing every time I'm taken by this feeling.  The song from West Side Story ~ I Feel Pretty:

I feel pretty
Oh, so pretty
I feel pretty and witty and bright!
And I pity
Any girl who isn't me tonight

I feel charming
Disenchanting
It's alarming how charming I feel!
And so pretty
That I hardly can believe I'm real

See the pretty girl in that mirror there
Who can that attractive girl be?
Such a pretty face
Such a pretty dress
Such a pretty life
Such a pretty me

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Quick Heart Connections

This little girl, barely 2 years old, didn't want to leave the chair.  She felt so enamored with My Face Painting.  She liked being with me, and she wasn't old enough to understand that it was the next person's turn.

Lol ~ I actually stood up and walked along with her and her parents for a few steps to say that "It's time to go now."

Isn't that Wonderful!  Precious ~ to be able to see so clearly how our actions can touch a person's heart ~















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Me ~ Face Painting at a Store's Grand Opening

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What else are legs for?

Practicing Face Painting

Unicorns

Time to pack up.  I've only been hired for 3 hours.  Times up and the Rough Music is So Loud.   But how can I go?  When these 3 little Unicorns popped up.

I did these Facepaintings so quickly.  Probably less than 2 minutes each.  I love it!







It's great to be a child.

Follow Up about a year later ~ I was Facepainting at other Parties where I did Not have Unicorns on the list.  But sure enough, the first Guest who sat down said that she wanted a Unicorn.

I remembered this post, and I want to post some of these new ones: 





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New Cellphone Camera

So excited with the new technology.  But the decisions! 

This is me ~ going to a last-minute FACEPAINTING Event ~
I was originally told that this was a High School Event. 

Focus.  Prepare.  Take a Selphie as I'm on my way. 
My Iphone Camera gives me lots of Options. 
Hmmm...  Natural Light?  Studio Light?  Portrait?  Vivid Warm?  Vivid Cool?.... etc

I feel like the Photo with the Black Background was better ~ for a Hight School Event. 

But when I arrived ~ hey!  This isn't a High School Event!  Turned out to be an Elementary School Event.  Well.....  I might have chosen a different Face Painting Design for an Elementary School Event, but this was okay. 

And the Photo with the Natural Background and Natural Lighting is now better ~ for an Elementary School Event. 

Just goes to show ~ there are always so many decisions to make about everything.  Yes ~ make a decision.  But don't agonize over it.  Good intentions are the way to make things work. 

Our decisions aren't Stopping points after which nothing else happens.  Things are always changing





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I know a Lot of Designs

9pm last night ~ I was contacted to do FACE PAINTING today.

10pm last night ~ Agreement and deposit arrived.

Midnight ~ still doing Prep work


My whole day revolved around this last-minute Event.  Loud music.  Comfortable Set Up under their tent.  And as usual, most of the Requests were for Designs that were Not on my list.

I felt so happy to see that I felt comfortable to swing in to Each Request!  Of course, I had to do them more Quickly and Simply than what I do here in my Studio.

Here's One of the Faces I painted.  Roses.  And look who was there.  It's Richard Thomas, the Mayor of Mount Vernon.  Quite pleasant ~ he gave me Two Thumbs Up!







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Cheerleaders

Special Request for one of this weekend's Parties.  Which I'm sure will come in handy for Both of this weekend's Facepainting Events.  It's to theme the Party for Cheerleaders and Zombies.  Like that's no surprise. 

Seems easy enough.  I could just do pretty Cheerleader Makeup for the Cheerleaders, and splotchy black/white with sunken eyes for the Zombies.  But I prefer to try out my ideas ahead of time.  Planning for the Party. 

I focused on the Cheerleaders tonight.  For a 5-year-old Girl's Party. 

I made 2 designs ~ figuring that one would be good for a cheek ~ and the other would be good for a forehead.  I learned the following ~ which will make my performance better at my events: 

1. Big head ~ Little body looks cuter.

2.  If I'm going to use the chunky glitter on the skirt, make sure to have a high-contrasting outline or background. 

3.  Maybe even save the pearly Colors for the Make-up Type faces.  And use the regular medium-light Colors for the backgrounds on designs like these. 



Whatever I do, I'm sure to Enjoy painting these designs.  I can paint different things each time.  Different sillouettes, Different types and different colors of curls and swirls using different brushes,  Many many different types of glitters

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