THE Best Painting Sketchbooks

Different sizes and formats of sketchbook work best for different settings. A pocket-sized one is perfect for carrying about every day, while a large, hardback one is great for a dedicated outing to do some sketching for possible paintings. The most important thing, I believe, is that you need to like a particular sketchbook -- the way it feels in your hand, the quality of the paper, the cover -- or you won't feel like using it. This is a selection of sketchbooks I think are great for painting sketches or doing thumbnails to plan a painting.

1. Wire-Bound, Hardcover Sketchbooks by Daler Rowney
Photo © Marion Boddy-EvansIf I'm going somewhere with the intention of sketching, my A3-size version of Daler-Rowney's wire-bound, hardcover sketchbook is what I take, along with a permanent pen, watercolor sketching set, and waterbrush.

Having a stiff cover eliminates the need to take a board to support the paper, and being wire-bound means it folds completely open at any page. I can work in it in various ways, such as holding it in one arm or propping it up on my knees or against a daypack. The paper is 65lb (100gsm) so does buckle if it gets very wet with paint, but will stand up to acrylic paint as well as watercolor.

SKULL TATTOO THE MASK BODY PAINTING

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trip face painting Skull and scary

Simple face painting ideas for Halloween. The funny photo above shows a funny & scary face painting for halloween faces. That is a fast and Simple facepaint idea for Halloween faces and scary faces. The faces not a zombie, skull, skeleton or monster but, more of a simple and basic face painting of a scary face to paint your kids or yourself like for a fast and easy halloween face.

October shows and show times for october events on my cams are now listed for fun Halloween Shows and October Event schedule. Art Shows for live art and how to facepaint and bodypaint for halloween faces & costumes. Funny Costumes, scary costumes and cool costumes live painting of face and body by artist Hilary Leigh for Kid Safe Webcam Fun. Halloween faces for funny costumes and scary costumes. I show how to paint and make your own costumes for scary and cool faces for halloween face painting all year long. If you plan costume parties or plan halloween parties and day of the dead events or even plan a zombie walk and fun stuff for dressing up with theater makeup you may want to surf my cool websites pages for more scary faces & simple & art faces.

Cool Art & Face Art with body art photos below & on my main page of my cool websites fun games, free videos, weird and original face paintings.

make Face Painting Horror Faces

Kids and adults seem to be more and more interested in the faces depicting faces from horror movies, cartoon figures or Halloween themes. Horror face painting ideas have become more and more popular as it seems to be a sign of the times that generally there is a fascination with the dark and evil. Also there is a fun element as well in scaring people with a scary face. This next image is from the Simbu of Papua New Guinea. The skeleton type figures are hunting the wolf/bear looking creature.

technic Scary so good Face Painting for baby 2010

Almost everyone has attended an amusement park, county fair, or sporting event and had their face painted (don't forget Halloween). The designs are usually crude and simple, done by a friend, relative, or greasy haired teen who understands there are 10 others waiting their turn in line. In the examples below, all discovered on Flickr, the artists have done an exceptional job of taking face painting to the extreme. A precise hand and creative mind have brought these images to life; in some cases it's even a skewed expression. I found many of them to be downright creepy.