Archive for June, 2009

Jet Plane goes vroooom

Posted on Jun 30, 2009 11:35:00 PM

This morning I was experimenting with my shiny new DiamondFx palette, as you do, and my wee boy says “I want an aeroplane.” Vehicles are not my favourite thing, but you can’t say no. To my surprise, I was very pleased with the end result, so todays post, is a quick “jet plane how-to”.

Load a small flat brush with metallic blue paint. Hold it on a 45 degree angle and stroke up and then across the hand. Flick up vertically at the end for the tail. Fill in underneath your up stroke with another horizontal stroke to fill in the body of the plane. Brush the wings out on a steep angle using just the tip of your flat brush then colour in.

Using black and a small round brush, draw in small oblongs for the jet engines and a window at the front for the pilot. Shade under the body and wings.

Switch to white paint, highlight along the top of the body and wings. Draw “m” shapes for clouds and drag the paint downwards to fill in the clouds. If you want, add small white lines from the back of the engines.  Simple and effective for cheek or hand.

 

 

 

 

 

Face Painting and Body Painting, there’s a difference

Posted on Jun 29, 2009 09:34:00 PM

 

I entered the New Zealand Body Art Awards! So of course, now I’m panicking. It’s what I do. Last weekend I was at a workshop on body painting by the lovely Yolanda from BodyFx. I got some very handy hints, and somehow became convinced that I can switch from painting small faces to painting entire grown up people! Ack!

I found some brilliant new products to play with. I decided against the glue on loose velvet tattoos (photo right, because it’s pretty) just because of the time involved in waiting for the glue to dry. For some reason I’m usually going flat tack when I’m working so I only want things that can go on immediately, no waiting. It’s a shame because I can see kids loving the soft fuzzy texture. If you can keep it dry, it lasts for several days too. Most people who touched the flower tattoo I did on myself thought it was neat, only one friend went “ewwww, you feel mouldy! Like old cheese” I figure there’s a girl needs to clean out her fridge more often.

I ended up buying the DiamondFX palette BodyFx sells. It’s gorgeous. The gold, blue and green especially. Vibrant, metallic and iridescent. Beautiful colors. The red is more of a dark pink. It’s gonna be great for butterflies, flowers and princesses at parties. Unfortunately, it won’t work for my Body Art Awards idea. For that I need the proper Chinese bright red, which is a yellow base red, I think. Hmmmm… problems problems.