Face Painting Ideas: Pirate Bandanna

Series Summary

Face painting has a long and illustrious history in state fairs, theme parks, and summer camps. You'll be hard-pressed to find a child who has not had their face painted at some point in their young lives or who would turn away the opportunity. It is amazing how face painting never gets old and how endless the possibilities are for face painting designs. From butterflies, peacocks, leopards, flags, cats, and dogs, you can paint anything that comes to mind. If you would like to learn how to face paint and create your own designs, here's your chance to learn the crafts from an expert!

In this free video series, get tips for painting faces! Our expert, Hannah Carlock, shows you the step by step process for making some classic face painting designs. Learn how to make a pirate. Also, learn how to make the famous batman signal. If you are looking for something scary to paint, learn how to make a Mardi Gras mask with red, black, and silver. For the girl's, learn how to make a beautiful swirly rainbow. There is always an occasion to paint your face. So, get some face painting ideas today!

Video Transcript

"So, now I'm going to be showing you how to paint a pirate. So, first things first, you want to start with a flat brush, a flat nylon brush and get some water on it and apply it to the red because I'm going to be drawing a bandanna on his forehead. So, just have him lean forward, pull up the hair a little bit, draw right across the top of the head, the red for the bandanna. You're going to be an awesome pirate. Now, just keep the brush very flat when you're painting on there because you don't want any clods of the paint. Now, this pant goes on pretty smooth, but just to be sure, leave an even arrangement of it. Now, I'm going to take a smaller brush and create the bandanna flaps, just like the tie in front of the pirate head. So, just draw two bulbs in the corner in the face, just like a wretched old pirate would wear. Feel free to use your fingers to clean up the lines as you need to, and that's the first part of the bandanna."