Ideas for Clown Faces
Painting your face to look like a clown is fun, especially when you are planning to participate in a kid's birthday party, community fair, parade or circus. Although there are some basic guidelines for clown face painting, feel free to experiment with different types and styles of clown faces until you find a design that feels right to you.
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Traditional Clown
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A traditional clown face involves covering all exposed flesh on the face, neck and ears with white face paint. Then, paint over your normal facial features with exaggerated features, including a large red smile, big eye lashes and huge eyebrows. Outline the features in black, then fill them in with a color and perhaps glitter. Put a red ball on your nose, a wig on your head and you're ready to go.
Sad Clown
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There are two types of sad clowns. The first is made similarly to the traditional clown, except that the mouth and eyebrows turn sharply down to look sad. The second type of sad clown is designed to look like a distraught vagabond. This clown face should be painted using darker makeup that may resemble soot, although adding white makeup near the eye and mouth can be useful to exaggerate the contrast of the dark makeup to the light.
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Mixed-Color Clown
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Clown faces don't have to always be white with red mouths and noses. You can experiment by designing a clown face that uses a different set of primary colors. For example, the nose can be yellow or green instead of red. Also experiment with the shapes and lines, such as by drawing a heart on the lips instead of painting them wide. Feel free to be creative and don't forget to add glitter.
Character Clown
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A character clown is the most difficult kind of clown face to paint but also often the funniest. It resembles an identifiable character or occupation, such as a fireman, nurse, doctor, policeman, pirate or a specific famous person. To make a character clown, think about the most prominent features of the face of the type of person you are trying to portray. Then, exaggerate them a lot and combine them with some features of a traditional clown so it is clear you are doing a clown version of the character rather than an ordinary copy of the character.
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