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Me with a very satisfied paintee
Monday, August 29, 2011
My first SLIDE SHOW
Here is my first attempt at inserting a slide show of my work. Just loke on "All Images". and it should link you to my SLIDE show page.
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Thanks!
Welcome to my blog!
Hello to all, face painters and non-painters alike.
It is very interesting living as face and body artist. The people I meet, the comments I get after I paint someone, the unique events and locales I paint at.
I guess I should start at the begining of my face and body painting career...soooo long ago. It started when I grew-up and lived for over 40 years, southern California. Redondo Beach to be exact. How did a beach-baby end up in the mountains of Utah. That will be another post.
My first face painting was on myself...copying the hippies flowers (it was the late '70's) that I saw on the weekly t.v. show of "Rowin and Martin's Laugh-In"..starring a bikini clad Goldie Hawn with her body painted every week with love signs, peace signs and flowers. Every hippie around always had some kind of flower painted on their face and I wanted to be a hippie too. So I painted my face with little flowers every now and then when not in high school (strict dress code back then).
My painting career really didn't get going full force tho until I got to Heber over 11 years ago. So what happened during the years in between? Painting flowers when I was asked by friends includiing a former boyfriend of mine when I was 30 yrs old (good sport huh?). I never knew back then there was actually a profession of face painting!
fast forward to 11 years ago when I moved here, I was still doing oil painting (on canvas, not people). One day I saw in the paper, The Wave, an article about the Heber Farmer's market...hummm. I went to the park, and I honestly don't remeber how or what spurred to ask the coordinator of the market if I could paint during the market.
Picture it, 6 vendors at the park, including a girl with two lawn chairs, 6 colors of paint (the right stuff..make-up that I use today..more on this later as well) and a little hand letter sign that said "Face Painting $2.00. I actually painted three willing little subjects (a young girl, her friend and brother). I still have thos photos..I will post later.
Well that started my obsession with face painting..not for the money but for the pleasure of making kids smile (of course getting paid for doing something I LOVE to do is great and does pay some bills).
So how did the following week at the market go? Tune in again and will tell you :)
toddles for now ... the future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses!
Dana the face painter
even adults love to be transformed
It is very interesting living as face and body artist. The people I meet, the comments I get after I paint someone, the unique events and locales I paint at.
I guess I should start at the begining of my face and body painting career...soooo long ago. It started when I grew-up and lived for over 40 years, southern California. Redondo Beach to be exact. How did a beach-baby end up in the mountains of Utah. That will be another post.
My first face painting was on myself...copying the hippies flowers (it was the late '70's) that I saw on the weekly t.v. show of "Rowin and Martin's Laugh-In"..starring a bikini clad Goldie Hawn with her body painted every week with love signs, peace signs and flowers. Every hippie around always had some kind of flower painted on their face and I wanted to be a hippie too. So I painted my face with little flowers every now and then when not in high school (strict dress code back then).
My painting career really didn't get going full force tho until I got to Heber over 11 years ago. So what happened during the years in between? Painting flowers when I was asked by friends includiing a former boyfriend of mine when I was 30 yrs old (good sport huh?). I never knew back then there was actually a profession of face painting!
fast forward to 11 years ago when I moved here, I was still doing oil painting (on canvas, not people). One day I saw in the paper, The Wave, an article about the Heber Farmer's market...hummm. I went to the park, and I honestly don't remeber how or what spurred to ask the coordinator of the market if I could paint during the market.
Picture it, 6 vendors at the park, including a girl with two lawn chairs, 6 colors of paint (the right stuff..make-up that I use today..more on this later as well) and a little hand letter sign that said "Face Painting $2.00. I actually painted three willing little subjects (a young girl, her friend and brother). I still have thos photos..I will post later.
Well that started my obsession with face painting..not for the money but for the pleasure of making kids smile (of course getting paid for doing something I LOVE to do is great and does pay some bills).
So how did the following week at the market go? Tune in again and will tell you :)
toddles for now ... the future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses!
Dana the face painter
even adults love to be transformed
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