How To Follow Designs For Face Painting

Hello. My name is Kat Sinclair. I am a professional facepainter.

I've been painting for 8 years. I'm going to show some tips, tricks and techniques for doing your own facepainting at home. I'm going to show you how to follow facepainting designs.

You can buy books in art shops for facepainting. They will have step-by-step instructions for how to create the faces within them, but what do you do if you have a face and you don't know how it was painted? What I'm going to do is the Joker from Batman. You may have seen the film, so you will know what it's going to end up looking like.

So how do I paint this face? I normally start of with the lightest colour which will be white and then I will paint the red and finally the black at the end. So hopefully, it should look exactly as it does in the film. So the first colour I'm going to paint is white.

So I need a nice big sponge for that. I'm going to use the cake-white. It's a lot easier to put on and you can see the skin through it.

So load up the sponge, the cake-white and then start applying it to the face. We're not going to go into the eyes with this, we're just going to go around the rest of the face first. Now, I'm going to leave a gap for the mouth which is going to be a crescent shape coming upwards.

Then come to the eyes, 'can you just look upwards for me.' Then go under there. So I've left a gap there for the mouth and I've left the eyes without any paint.

So I can do them back in a second. I'm going to get another sponge and then wet that and for this I'm going to load with cake-black. It's a bit less cloggy than the normal black so it will be easy for him to wash off afterwards as well.

Get your sponge and squeeze the edges until you've got a round surface there and 'close your eyes for me' and make a nice round shape around the eyes. You can come out a little bit at the outside edges. That's the basic shape round there.

Then you do the other side as well, coming into the corner and then keep going till you've done both eyes. And then finally, we're going to do the mouth. But this isn't the same as the normal clown's make-up because his mouth is more blood-coloured.

So instead of the bright-red, I'm going to use quite a dark red which is the colour of blood and I'm going to do that, just do a jagged smile coming down right from up there down on to the lips. And because it's going to be very messy, what I'm going to do now is just wet a brush without putting any paint on it. I'm going to use this flap brush with no paint on and just drag the colour from the eyes.

'Turn your head'. And make it look very messy as if the paint is running into the creases on the face. You can go all the way down into the red then do it on the forehead too.

Create lines on the forehead as well. You might want just a little touch of brown, just to give the impression that you can see the skin through the paint. And even if you want to, is wet your hands a little bit, you just smooth it.

With this face, the more smudged, the dirty it looks the better because it does look very scary. And that's how to follow a facepainting design. .