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Face Painting Cheek Art - Tips And Ideas For The Beginner

Face painting is one of those hobbies that is so enjoyable and so much fun. Whether at friends’ parties, charity events, fetes or other school functions, you will never be short of customers as children just love being painted. If you’re just venturing out as a face painter, then cheek designs are the perfect starting point for you. And, as Christmas is so close, there are lots of easy festive cheek ideas that you could kick off with. Let’s have a look at some ideas that you may find useful.

EASY CHEEK ART IDEAS

GIRLS: Hearts, flowers, dolphins, butterflies, spider’s web, stars
BOYS: Swords, snakes, spiders, fake wounds, footballs, flags, octopus
CHRISTMAS CHEEK ART: Christmas trees, snowmen, easy Santa face, stars, holly, snowflakes

There are many children’s face painting books in libraries, endless pictures you can look up online and all will help to inspire you.
Get a face painting practice pad and practise highlighting and shading. I believe that anyone who can doodle can create their own face paint design. Remember it can be just a few curly lines around the eyes pointing towards the hairline. Use colours that go well together. Purple, pinks, lilacs and blues look beautiful when combined. Add some silver and white highlights to make the most of the colours. It can be whatever you want it to be. Bring the colours to life and add some little dots and a touch of glitter and, hey presto, you have a design. Don’t be scared, have a go and have fun.

BUTTERFLIES: The butterfly is so popular. Even the most basic designs can look beautiful. You will need a small brush. Paint four coloured wings on the cheek then outline the wings in black. You will need to paint a line down the centre of the wings to represent the body and add the antennae with a fine brush. Look at butterfly pictures and try to copy the texture of the central line, making it thicker where needed. Think of matching colours you could use to fill in the wings, add a touch of glitter and give yourself a clap. And remember, no matter how basic your first designs are, the kiddies you will be painting will not be looking at your creation in the same critical way as you. They will be full of admiration for how beautiful it looks.

OCTOPUS: A great little fun design that boys seem to love. Start with the round head and, if you want to be a little adventurous, you could even paint some of the eight wriggly arms in all directions, some aimed towards the subject’s eyes, nose and mouth. Purple and blues are popular colours and you could also add different shades of blue down all sides for shading and fine white lines to bring the design alive. Don’t forget a couple of white dots for the eyes and, when they’re dry, a tiny black spot on top of each for a perfect finish.

Never be afraid to get creative! Why not make the eyes Extra Large and, with a very fine brush, add some long eyelashes? Paint on some very bright lips and a touch of red for the cheeks and you have a girly octopus! How about some large black rimmed glasses to make a brainbox octopus! There are so many ideas you could use to put your own stamp on this and you could end up with a whole range of funny girl and boy octopuses. As it is Christmas soon, add a Santa hat for fun and why not throw in a scarf and maybe even a pipe! Have a go and have fun.

When you look at the easy cheek designs, they don’t really look too difficult do they?

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