How To Do Childrens Face Painting

Hello! My name is Kat Sinclair, I'm a professional face painter. I've been painting for 8 years and I'm going to show you some tips, tricks, and techniques for doing your own face painting at home. I'm going to show you how to do some children's face painting, and I'm going to show you how to blend two colors together so you get a lovely effect for a lot of girls designs like the tiger, the butterfly, the fairy, the pussy cat and the lion all use very nice blending, and it brings out the design and makes it look much more professional.

We're going to take this lovely ladies arm, and load up our brush with two colors. I'm going to use purple and light pink. The reason why I'm doing it on one sponge is that it makes it much quicker to blend the colors together.

As you can see already in the middle of the sponge, they're starting to blend, so when we start to do it on the arm, it will be much easier. You can start with one end of the arm, and just start with the purple. Using the shape of the sponge as you go down, slowly start to roll the sponge, so that you're getting more than one color coming out, then start from the other end from the other color, again rolling sponge so that the two colors are blending together in the middle.

You can continue to go backwards and forwards until you are happy with your blend in the middle there. You can see you have a nice even blend going from purple to pink. Now, what I'm going to show you is how to do some of the basic brush strokes on top of that, so you'll need a different color black and a medium brush.

You'll load your brush with water and mix up some of the paint, and as you're loading the brush, make sure to always go in the direction of the bristles of the brush. This stops the bristles from breaking. If you went from side to side, they would get bent and broken, and that would ruin your brush, so you need to always make sure that you go in the directions of your bristles.

When you've got a nice amount of creamy paint, then you can use that to start doing brush strokes on the arm. I'll show you the first one which is the tear drop shape. You start with the brush at right angles to the skin, then slowly push the brush down to the skin so you end up with a tear drop.

Then you do that again, start off at right angles, and then push the brush down to get the tear drop. Start at the point of the brush, push the brush down, get a tear drop. The next brush stroke you can do is to elongate the tear drop and bring it down into a curve, then as you come back up, you twist the brush so it comes back into a point.

You may need to go back over it. Then you end up with a nice curl. Another brush stroke to do is the tiger stripe, as you can see on the face.

You start off with a point, come down, push the brush down, then twist and pull the brush up and that's a tiger stripe. I'll just show you that again. Start off with a point, push the brush down and twist, and pull the brush up, so that's a tiger stripe.

You can also use the brush to just create dots. Just load the brush up with paint, as much as you can get on it so that it's got a blob on the end. You can use that to just create spots.

Then you can do a leopard, which would be like that, a leopard spot, which is like a tiger stripe but you do a u-turn, and then twist the other way. So those are the basic brush strokes, and that's how to do children's face painting! .