Animal Face Painting update 2010

Animal face painting designs are really popular with the young children. Kids just love role play and pretending to be something else, especially if they can hide behind the face of an animal they love. I found these awesome Face Painting Videos and DVD's that teach the basics of face painting. Be a cat... a panda... or a butterfly. With a little face paint and imagination, your animal transformation can be quick and easy. Sharon Neilson demonstrates how to paint eight different full-face designs for face painting: Cat, Dog (2 variations), Panda, Monkey, Butterfly, Rabbit, and Tiger. Check out these great,

Advanced Tiger Face Paint - preview

This is a sneak peak at my new Tiger Face Paint Design for advanced face painters as opposed to the beginners (or standard) version revealed in my free face painting course and newsletter.

It doesn’t take any longer to paint than the standard version… once you get the forehead strips down! I will be announcing a full step-by-step break down of this advanced tiger face paint design some time, later this month.

In fact there is a simple trick to get those black stripes on super fast and still maintain that natural jagged line look that really makes this design work.

The big evolution in this design is not painting on the nose, instead I paint the tigers nose under the kids nose… a little impractical for endurance but this design is not meant for a festival gig where you have a long queue and the kids have a long day. It’s a tiger face paint for the birthday boy, photo opportunity, or those moments when you have no queue.

The nose and mouth is designed to be true to a real tiger look. The effect you’ll be trying to achieve is to project the upper lip forward.

I have noticed that a lot of my subscriber already know How to Face Paint and the tiger face is one of the staples of our industry, so if you have been pumping out that same old tiger face paint that every face painter produces and want to try something different, give it a go.

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face painting Butterflies and Eye Designs

This class combines popular designs that frame the eye and equally sought after butterflies - the lesser spotted as well as the spotted, and the simply stunning! Delicate sponging and linework are essential techniques to master for best effect, and that's exactly what we help you to acheive.

TIGER FACE PAINT DESIGNS

On this page we will try and show how to paint a tiger face step by step so that you can see how the various layers and details are built up. We will give you the colours of the paints used and details of the brushes and sponges used so you can practise this for yourselves, although obviously different colours can be used for different effects (see bottom of page for examples). Before you begin to paint you will need a supply of clean water, a dry towel (to place around the person being painted) and either some wet wipes or a damp flannel (to keep your hands clean).

Colours needed :

Step 1:

Using a sponge paint a white area around the mouth. This will help keep the whiskers white later on.

Step 2:

Using a clean sponge paint yellow around the eyes, cheeks and chin.

Step 3:

Using another sponge add orange around the outside of the face. Blend the orange and yellow together by going slightly over the edges of the yellow paint with the orange, if the paint is too dark you can keep blending using the yellow and orange sponges until you get the effect you like.

Step 4:

Using a medium thick brush, paint white eyebrows above the eyes. Use the line of the clients actual eyebrow as a guide, lifting the brush at the end of the stoke to create the point.

Step 5:

Paint another eyebrow onto the other side, it is sometimes easier to paint the side you feel least confident with first. Add brush strokes around the mouth creating the whiskers, if you lift the brush as you come to the end of the stroke and flick the tip of the brush slightly you can achieve the pointed look to your whiskers..
Step 6:

Add white stipes, start your brush strokes at the outer edge of the orange paint and drag in, if you lift the brush as you drag it it will create the tapered look to the stripes very easily. Still using the white place a thin line under each eye.

Using black paint add a nose, following the natural flare of the nosterals will help ensure both sides are even.

Step 7:

Using the black add a line from under the nose to the top lip, this should get larger as you go down to incorporate the top lip. Paint both lips black. Add black stripes in the same way as the white ones, the number of stripes is down to personal preference..

Step 8:

Using a thin brush add small dots above the top lip in black and outline the whiskers and eyebrows, this will give more definition.

The final touch is to add a sprikling of glitter, gold looks good with these colours, around the edge of the face, try not to go too near the eyes. If you have glitter gel, as opposed to loose glitter, this can be added in between the stripes creating extra glitter stripes.



Note: These colours were actually changed in an image editing programme, but they give you an idea of what can be done just by changing the colours used.

Many Faces Of Face Painting cat

Face painting is one of the cherished activities of festivals, carnivals, parades and events across the country. More and more holidays are beginning to use face painting as a great activity for kids. Schools can also incorporate it as a station on their annual field day. Halloween may boast the most face painting out of any holiday, but summer fairs and county festivals run close behind. The designs are too innumerable to count.




A face can be transformed in its entirety, into an animal, character or monster. Face painters often use stencils, which are painted and then stamped onto the face, and can be popular, too. Whatever designs the children, or even adult asks the face painter for, there are a hundred ways to go about getting a great design.

Face Painting Designs - - Easy Butterfly - - Getting Started

Paint the outline of the butterfly wings, trying to get both wings more or less symmetrical (this will get easier with practise). Paint from the side of the ridge of the nose, up and across the forehead, above the eyebrows. Then down from the nose past the mouth almost to the end of the jaw. Now 'join up' the two lines using as much of the cheek as possible. Don't worry too much about how much space you leave for the butterfly's body at the nose; you can always paint over part of the wings if necessary.

face painting design tiger

FACE PAINT DESIGNS - Tiger Face

On this page we will try and show how to paint a tiger face step by step so that you can see how the various layers and details are built up. We will give you the colours of the paints used and details of the brushes and sponges used so you can practise this for yourselves, although obviously different colours can be used for different effects (see bottom of page for examples). Before you begin to paint you will need a supply of clean water, a dry towel (to place around the person being painted) and either some wet wipes or a damp flannel (to keep your hands clean).


Step 1:

Using a sponge paint a white area around the mouth. This will help keep the whiskers white later on.

Step 2:

Using a clean sponge paint yellow around the eyes, cheeks and chin.

Step 3:

Using another sponge add orange around the outside of the face. Blend the orange and yellow together by going slightly over the edges of the yellow paint with the orange, if the paint is too dark you can keep blending using the yellow and orange sponges until you get the effect you like.

Step 4:

Using a medium thick brush, paint white eyebrows above the eyes. Use the line of the clients actual eyebrow as a guide, lifting the brush at the end of the stoke to create the point.

Step 5:

Paint another eyebrow onto the other side, it is sometimes easier to paint the side you feel least confident with first. Add brush strokes around the mouth creating the whiskers, if you lift the brush as you come to the end of the stroke and flick the tip of the brush slightly you can achieve the pointed look to your whiskers..

Step 6:

Add white stipes, start your brush strokes at the outer edge of the orange paint and drag in, if you lift the brush as you drag it it will create the tapered look to the stripes very easily. Still using the white place a thin line under each eye.

Using black paint add a nose, following the natural flare of the nosterals will help ensure both sides are even.

Step 7:

Using the black add a line from under the nose to the top lip, this should get larger as you go down to incorporate the top lip. Paint both lips black. Add black stripes in the same way as the white ones, the number of stripes is down to personal preference..

The Basics of Animal Face Painting

If you’d like to use the most popular designs you should definitely practice animal face painting. Animal themes vary extensively in design-you can create spots, stripes, whiskers, fangs, cat’s eyes, dog’s “black-eye”, pug nose, beaks and so much more! This article will show you the basics of animal face painting and how to further enhance your skills.

The first thing to do is to acquaint ourselves with some of the most basic animal designs. The most popular beginner’s design is the butterfly and bunny. Here are other animals you can portray in your animal face painting:

- Lion -Tiger -Cheetah -Cat -Dalmatian -Cow -Chicken -Owl -Sheep -Pig

With these samples you can already learn and create so many kinds of patterns. To get started, here are basic animal details:

1. Making Spots - use round brush to make dots and spots. With this simple animal face painting technique you can create Dalmatian spots. Try drawing a circle around one eye and filling it in with solid color to create a dog’s “black eye.” You can then move on to creating cheetah spots by making solid dots and then creating a circle around them.

2. Making Stripes - you can use stripes to make basic tiger and zebra designs. Create wavy lines across the face with a brush. There are many books available that can show you where to direct those lines.

3. Noses - creating noses are easy. You can simply apply a black, pink or red spot on the nose.

4. Beaks - learn how to paint on beaks that have the illusion of “sticking out” of the face from books or online information on animal face painting.

5. Eyes - animals’ eyes can vary. Paint on a vertical line that has a thicker middle and pointed ends for cat’s eyes.

6. Fur and feathers - there are many books that will provide you with information on how to create the illusion of furs and feathers using paint alone.

Now that you know the basic animal face painting designs and patterns, prepare yourself for actual face painting. Here is a basic procedure:

Step 1: Identify the color combination and make a palette of colors for your design. For example, a tiger is going to need a color palette of orange for the base, black for stripes, yellow for eyes and white for the lower eyelids.

Step 2: Find out how your model wants his or her face painted: partially or entirely. For those who don’t want the whole face to be painted, add some animal-like features only in a small area like the eyes or part of the cheek.

Step 3: Start painting! The typical animal face painting procedure is by first painting on the base with a moist sponge and placing the details or animal patterns with a brush last. Now that you have the basics on animal face painting, learn more about specific procedures on each animal and advanced techniques online.