How to Face Paint

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Here’s an article from the Sunderland Echo that I thought you’d like about a new face painting course at the Open College Network in the UK.

Chance to Brush Up on Face Painting

Karen Routledge looks over the work of student Jeanett Chapman.

By Sue Watson
Fancy a qualification in painting funny faces?

The country’s first accredited course in face painting has been set up on Wearside for students to brush up their skills.

Washington woman Karen Routledge, an education and funding consultant, has teamed up with Sunderland Community Voluntary Service (CVS), to deliver the course for the Open College Network.

Karen, who has been face painting for fun for 20 years, was holding a training course in fund-raising when one of the women asked if she would go along to a community group.

She said: “I thought she meant would I go along and do some face painting for an event, but then she said that actually she wanted me to teach the others how to face paint.”

Since then Karen has held several sessions in the region, which have always been fully booked and has held courses in other parts of the country. (more…)

Hi there, I found this interesting article on an amazing face painter called Christopher Agostino and hope that it could inspire to do things slightly different with your face painting. ***Would you like to be a featured face painter on our blog? Then send us an email with your details and you could be promoted on our blog!***

Don’t wear the face, be the face
How a Baldwin Artist Works his Magic
BY DANA KLOSNER-WEHNER| Special to Newsday Oct 14, 2007

Jay Hugues of Baldwin became a Japanese demon. Jeannea Whitely of Port Washington was transformed into a beautiful bird, and 9-year-old John Jerome of Queens became a monkey king - an image from ancient Chinese opera masks. All it took was some skillful brushstrokes and about three minutes each.

These are just three of the hundreds of faces painted at Port Washington’s recent Bar Beach FamilyFest by Christopher Agostino, his wife, Lorraine, and two employees of his company, Transformation FacePainting.

The words “face painting” usually conjure images of rainbows and butterflies on the cheek. Not so of Transformation Facepainting, where every face is a full-face work of art and every face is different.

“We think of face painting as an art and not a decoration,” said Agostino, of Baldwin, founder and artistic director of the 15-person company. “I don’t want to put something on somebody that only is a decoration, that doesn’t actually change their appearance dramatically enough that you see them as somebody different, or it doesn’t actually change the way they feel about themselves.” (more…)