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Here are the details for face painting courses, classes and events that are happening around the world in January 2009. If you’re holding face painting courses and classes yourself or you know of face painting courses/classes that are coming up (that aren’t listed here), then email me and I’ll have them posted asap: i n f o (at) f a c e p a i n t i n g t i p s (dot) c o m

And if you want to learn face painting from home,
then download one of our face painting courses at
www.FacePaintingTips.com today! 

Sunday, January 4 2009 - Thursday, January 8 2009
Face Painting and Body Art Convention (FPBAC)
Orlando, Florida, USA

Face Painting, Body Painting, Airbrush, Henna, Glitter Tattoos, Marketing, Business and more! Beginner to Advanced Classes offered. Vendor sponsored welcome party Wednesday night, dozens of classes offered by dozens of talented and award winning instructors, face and body painting “JAMS”, most major manufacturers represented in vendor room, body painting fashion show luncheon on Friday, Saturday evening costumed competition banquet ALL included in your value packed $250 registration fee!

Additional Details can be found at Event Website www.fpbaconvention.com/

Contact Info
Name Cynthia
Phone 407-628-9998
eMail Cynthia@fpbaa.com

Event Location Info
Renaissance Orlando Hotel Airport
5445 Forbes Place
Orlando, Florida 32812 USA

Phone 407-240-1000

Thursday, January 15 2009 - Friday, January 16 2009
9:00am - 4:00pm
Mark Reid Workshop I
Round Hill, Virginia, USA

Drag blending, gem powders, abstract designs, 3 dimensional designs, use of the face. Turn basic faces into WOW designs. Rate of $300 includes food and lodging.

Additional Details can be found at Event Website none

Contact Info
Name Carol
Phone 703-508-0177
eMail caroltrumanva@aol.com

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Can’t find a class in your area?
Want Face Painting Courses that you can take in the comfort of your own home? Then Download The Comprehensive Guide to Face Painting at www.FacePaintingTips.com today!

Happy Face Painting

Philadelphia Tivoli
Face Painting Tips

Seasons greetings my face painting friends! Today I’m going to share with you a beautiful face painting design that Heather Banks (sillyfarm.com) created. Click play to watch the video tutorial, it’s a great face painting design for Christmas!

To learn more Christmas face painting designs download our Christmas Face Painting Guide - 20 face painting designs with step by step photos and instructions!

Click Here to Find Out More About The Christmas Face Painting Guide

Happy Face Painting and Merry Christmas

Philadelphia Tivoli
www.FacePaintingTips.com

Here are the details for face painting courses, classes and events that are happening around the world in December 2008. If you’re holding face painting courses and classes yourself or you know of face painting courses/classes that are coming up (that aren’t listed here), then email me and I’ll have them posted asap: i n f o (at) f a c e p a i n t i n g t i p s (dot) c o m

And if you want to learn face painting from home,
then download one of our face painting courses at
www.FacePaintingTips.com today!

Saturday-Sunday, December 6-7, 2008
Mark Reid Workshop
Denver, Colorado, USA

This is a great opportunity to meet Mark and to learn from him here in Denver. Mark will not be teaching anything that was taught at any other class or convention. He will be teaching drag blending, double loading sponge, creating designs, and creating a new design from an old design, abstract design, flowers, advance 3 dimensional flames, feathers and much more.

Name Bobbie Gleason
Phone 303 582 3233
eMail krystalwolf@q.com

Event Location Info
Casa Bonita
6715 W Colfax
Lakewood, Colorado

Friday-Saturday, December 12-13, 2008
Christina Davison Workshop #1
Madison, Connecticut, USA

Mark your calendars, folks…… The DIVINE Miss Christina Davison will be coming to teach her fabulous art at my home in Madison, Ct. It will a be a FULL 8 hour class each day…….9:00 AM- 6:00 PM each day!!

The cost is $275.00 and that includes 2 lunches and 1 dinner!!

A deposit of $75.00 is due now. This class is for seasoned artists and newbies alike! There will be something for everyone!

Name Christina Davison
Phone 806-463-7669
eMail christina@amadazzle.com

Friday, December 12, 2008
Face Painting Jam
San Jose, California USA

Jams are for people interested in balloon twisting, face painting & glitter tattoos, magic, and any other children/family/corporate entertainment; for beginners, seasoned professionals and everyone else in between. Bring your ideas and laughter. If you have supplies, bring them. If you are new, we have extra.

Name Cheryl
Phone 510-468-0931
eMail pockets@bayareastars.com

Round Table Pizza
4400 Stevens Creek Boulevard
San Jose, California 95129

Sunday-Monday, December 14-15, 2008
Christina Davison Workshop #2
Madison, Connecticut, USA

Mark your calendars, folks…… The DIVINE Miss Christina Davison will be coming to teach her fabulous art at my home in Madison, Ct. It will a be a FULL 8 hour class each day…….9:00 AM- 6:00 PM each day!!

The cost is $275.00 and that includes 2 lunches and 1 dinner!!

A deposit of $75.00 is due now. This class is for seasoned artists and newbies alike!!! There will be something for everyone!

Contact Info
Name Christina Davison
Phone 806-463-7669
eMail christina@amadazzle.com 

Monday, December 15, 2008
Face Painting Jam
Vienna, VA

We are having our 3rd Monday of the month face painting jam. Absolutely all skill levels are welcome. Please feel free to bring your children (they will probably be painted, too!). Don’t worry if you can’t be there exactly at 6:30.

Bring your kit or not. We will have those demonstrating the various designs set up their kits and go from one person to the next.

I hope to see many of you there.

Looking forward to seeing as many at the jam!

Name Carol “Dee Vinchey” Turman
Phone 703-821-8581
eMail CAROLTURMANVA@aol.com

Event Location Info
Fuddruckers
1587 Spring Hill Road
Vienna, Virginia 22182 USA
Monday, December 29, 2008
South Central Pennsylvania Face Painting Guild
York, Pennsylvania, USA

The South Central Pennsylvania Face Painting Guild is meeting.

The back room has been reserved for our face painting jam and of course you can order from the menu for dinner.

ALLERGY ALERT: We will keep the back room for face painting only. Please remember no balloons in the back room as some are allergic to latex. However, if you want an informal balloon twisting session then please feel free to keep that at the front of the restaurant

Contact Info
Name Karen “Skeeta” Sawyer

Event Location Info
Fudrucker’s Restaurant
2300 East Market Street
York, Pennsylvania 17402 USA
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Can’t find a class in your area?
Want Face Painting Courses that you can take in the comfort of your own home? Then Download The Comprehensive Guide to Face Painting at www.FacePaintingTips.com today!

Happy Face Painting

Philadelphia Tivoli
Face Painting Tips

Here are the competition winners:

The $50 Gift Certificate from Silly Farm Supplies for the Best Author goes to:

Nancy Gervais for “Networking in the Face Painting World” Congratulations Nancy …awesome work, keep it up, and we can’t wait to see more! You will be receiving your gift certificate within the next week.

The $10 Certificate from Silly Farm Supplies for the Best Commenter goes to:

Carrie Zamora! Great commentary and thank you very much for continuing to participate! You will be receiving your gift certificate within the next week!

Thank you all again for participating, your stories have been helpful to more people than you think! You can start sending in your entries for the October Competition and, of course, keep making comments right away!

To get all the info on the competition click on this link: Silly Farm Competition.

Happy Face Painting

Philadelphia Tivoli
Learn face painting designs by clicking here with step by step photos and instructions!

The following is an entry sent in for our monthly

Silly Farm Supplies Competition!

“Networking in the Face Painting World”
By Nancy Gervais

Hello Philadelphia!

I would like to share a story with you that was made possible because ofyour blog.  A couple of months ago after submitting an article for your Silly Farm competition, I received a comment from another local face painter, who as it turns out, lives quite close by. We got to chatting by email and eventually decided to meet up for coffee. It was a bit like going on a blind date!

We met at a local coffee shop, sat down with drinks in hand and started talking. Eventually our conversation turned to face painting (of course!) and we discussed how we had gotten started in face painting and where our businesses were going.

Most importantly, we decided between us that if we were ever in a situation where we could call on each other for help, we would. For example, if we were offered a face painting job that required 2 painters, we would call each other, or if we ever woke up one morning too sick to attend a job, we could always call the other as a substitute, providing they were free.

If we ever had to refuse a job because we were already booked, we would refer the customer to each other. I think the lesson to be learned from this story is that in the “business world,” anyone providing the same service as you and competing for the same customers is considered the competition.

But in the face painting world, chances are the “competition” is someone very much like yourself: ­ someone creative and talented who adores kids and loves what they do. Because we took a chance and met for coffee, we are both in a better position–we both have a potential “substitute” face painter in case we are ever ill, and we both have the option to accept larger events (i.e more kids than we couldhandle by ourselves!) as long as the other is free and able to paint on that date. I feel better just knowing that she is there in case I ever need to call her and most importantly, I have made a new friend who likes face painting as much as I do!

The old saying “it pays to know your competition” proved true in my case and I hope some of your readers can take something away from this story and maybe make a new face painting friend themselves!

Nancy Gervais
www.doodlebugfaces.com

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Thank you for sending this in Nancy! I couldn’t agree with you more, networkingis the best way to go if you want to grow and do well in the face painting industry. I’ll be posting the rest of the entries until the end of November when I announce the winner.

To find out more and enter the face painting Silly Farm contest go to:
http://www.facepaintingtips.com/blog/competitions

Please leave a comment if you want to ask questions, or just want to offer encouragement!

Happy Face Painting,

Philadelphia Tivoli
P.S Click here for face painting designs with step-by-step with photos and instructions!

The following is an entry sent in for our monthly
Silly Farm Supplies Competition!

“Have You Caught the Face Painting Bug?”
By Sarah Le Clus

Symptoms: pictures of colors, swirls, tear drops, spiders, monsters, sponges and brushes passing before your minds eye at frequent intervals during both waking and sleeping hours. 

Highly contagious!!!

Cure: Extensive research has so far not reached any conclusions!!!

I caught it and I’m loving it!So to all face painters! Keep at it!

Cheers,

Sarah
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Thank you for sending this in Sarah! Beautiful designs, well done. I think we’ve all got that bug around here! I’ll be posting the rest of the entries until the end of November when I announce the winner. To find out more and enter the face painting Silly Farm Supplies Competition.Please leave a comment if you want to ask questions, or just want to offer encouragement!

As always, click on any photo in these entry posts to see a full-size version.

Happy Face Painting,

Philadelphia Tivoli

P.S Click here for face painting designs  with step-by-step with photos and instructions!

Hey guys, I thought it about time to do another product review so here’s a video I made about Amerikan Body Arts Liquid Bling… one of my fav new products Its a glitter gel in an applicator bottle with a metal tip that makes it super easy to apply glitter gel with details! Watch the video to find out more about the product and to watch a short demo of me using Liquid Bling (such a cool name hey?!)…

Click here to leave a comment, ask questions or tell us what you think! 
(Sorry about the swirl, I didn’t realise I was in the way until I was editing the video…woops!!)

Happy Face Painting,

Philadelphia Tivoli
P.S Interested in learning more face painting designs? Click here now!

The following is an entry sent in for our monthly Silly Farm Supplies Competition!

“Find Your Brush!”
By Cheryl Henderson aka Mrs. Bunny, The Clown
I recently had the opportunity to do face painting for a one year old’s party. The birthday girl didn’t have a clue to what was going on, but the older kids and adults were scrambling to get into my chair. This is a far cry from my early days when the kids would take one look at my feeble designs and head for the high ground! Back then, I only did cheek art because I thought it was easier and safer for a non-artist like myself. Boy, was I wrong! A wonderful person named BeBe, The Clown opened my eyes to the world of the sponge and full face painting. I am forever grateful!

I always carry pictures of face painting designs to help me remember them. At the one year old’s party, the kids would look at the designs and want me to do their faces exactly like the picture. But since I had grown (a little!) as a face painter I was able to do the design, but in my own style. After they saw the finished product they forgot all about the picture! That taught me a valuable lesson: do it your own way! I can’t capture the style of someone else because, frankly, I’m not them! I can look at the design and make it my own by changing the stroke or color, by adding a line or tear drop or some glitter. The key thing is to face paint according to the picture you have found in your heart; your own heart! The more I tried to do a design exactly like Heather or Philly, the more frustrated I became. What made it worse was that I couldn’t remember everything they did so I would go back to the video and watch it over and over and I still couldn’t get it!

Then I remembered Heather said that we didn’t have to do it exactly like her, but to find a way that worked for us. That finally began to sink in. As I relaxed I began to “find my brush”. After this, ideas started forming and I was able to work more smoothly. Even my repeat customers could tell the difference! (I’ve attached some of my designs and a pix of me with my “Baby Bunny”. She loves to tickle!)

I did an outdoor festival recently. Although I was nervous, I saw it as a learning experience and an adventure because that’s what life is! I was concerned that I wouldn’t get many customers, but when the children (and some adults!) saw the designs the line formed and I worked about 3 hrs. straight! As I was leaving, a lady in the booth next to me jokingly said, “Maybe now the rest of us can make some money!” I guess I have arrived as a face painter. Yippeee!!!

Cheryl Henderson aka Mrs. Bunny, The Clown
http://www.mrsbunnytheclown.com

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Thank you for sending this in Mrs. Bunny The Clown, such an awesome lesson learnt here, I’m so glad you’ve ‘found your brush’ ! I’ll be posting the rest of the entries until the end of November when I announce the winner. To find out more and enter the face painting Silly Farm contest click here.

Please leave a comment if you want to ask questions, or just want to offer encouragement!

Happy Face Painting,

Philadelphia Tivoli
P.S Click here for face painting designs  with step-by-step with photos and instructions!

The following is an entry sent in for our monthly Silly Farm Supplies Competition!

“Halloween Face Painting!”
By June Thurston

Hi Philadelphia,

Had a great time this Halloween, I face painted at work all day to raise moneyfor Children in Need , it gave me a chance to practice every thing I havelearned and I had a lot of very happy children that day, with a lot of scaryfaces.

I managed to raise around £100 in the 7 hours I painted and I can’t waifor next year. Wished I had the time to take photo’s though, i thought you mightlike to see 1 face I did the night before for a Halloween party, he scaredeveryone in sight once he was dressed up as  a devil. And the other little’monster’ was a great hit.

June Thurston

http://www.freewebs.com/faeriefaces

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Thank you for sending this in June, those are some wicked Halloween face painting designs! I’ll be posting the rest of the entries until the end of November when I announce the winner. To find out more and enter the face painting Silly Farm contest click here.

Please leave a comment if you want to ask questions, or just want to offer encouragement!

Happy Face Painting,

Philadelphia Tivoli
P.S Click here for Halloween face painting designs  with step-by-step with photos and instructions!

Watch as Christopher Agostino (internationally renowned face painter) paints a simple design and tells an awesome traditional folktale about the “Rainbow Bat” at the same time. Story telling is something that everybody enjoys, even adults like to listen to childrens stories if they’re told in an entertaining way - I learnt that from Marcela Murad aka Mama Clown - she also knows how to captivate an audience let me tell you!!

Enjoy the video:

Click here to leave a comment, I’d love to hear what you think!

Happy Face Painting,

Philadelphia Tivoli 
Want to learn how to face paint fun face painting designs? Then Click Here.