Tips for Getting Started with Face Painting

Series Summary

Face painting has a long and illustrious history in state fairs, theme parks, and summer camps. Rarely can you 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 are the possibilities of 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 learn from one of our experts.

In this free online video series learn face painting from body art specialist Kathleen Wright. She will give you tips for getting started with face painting, what brushes you should buy, a what paint to buy. Learn how to paint around the eyes, how to add glitter to your face paint, how to add jewels to your face painting design, how to add detail to your face painting motif, how to use a face painting marker, how to face paint with a sponge. Let creativity abound from your brush as you develop your face painting skills and paint new creative designs.

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is Kathleen Wright from Kathleen Wright Body Art, Miami Beach, Florida and New York City, hennaparties.com. On behalf of expertvillage.com we welcome you. Today I come to you for face painting tips and techniques. Just wanted to introduce some real basic things on face painting today. The first thing I wanted to mention to everybody is don’t get nervous when you do face painting. The best thing to do is just do it and have fun with it. You’re going to be doing it on small children, adults everybody loves to get their face painted so whether or not you’re an expert of just starting out you can really have a lot of fun with it. I want to start by telling you about tools, the first tool that’s your key ingredient of course to face painting is your tools your brushes. My experience is flexible brushes, natural brushes work great, instead of sometimes buying brushes separately you want to also get them in a package like this. "