Fun at the Bristol Harbour Festival 2009

On the 1st & 2nd August 2009 the Cats Whiskers face painting team participated in the Bristol Harbour Festival in the children's area on Queen's Square. Although the weather looked a little suspect for the Saturday the crowds still came and we all had great fun painting the children's and adults faces during the weekend as well as doing some temporary tattoos. Here are some of the pictures taken at the event showing the team at work and play and some of the lovely people we met:

Helen

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World Body Painting Festival

Between the 17th & 19th July I was lucky enough to be in Seeboden, Austria for the World Body Painting Festival (http://www.bodypainting-festival.com/). It has been going now for over ten years and attracts body painting artists from all over the world, as well as photographers and suppliers. Thousands of spectators also come along to enjoy watching the artists work as well as the stage presentations, music and amazing firework display on the last night.

On Friday the weather was hot as we all worked under canvas on the first day of the brush and sponge competition. It was my first year there and it was an amazing experience - I learnt such a lot. I hadn't realised quite how many people utilised the option of having an "assistant" help them to create their body art, so working on my own I was really pleased to get 46th place.

The theme was "Poetry - the power of words". It’s based on the concept that the power of poetry is the emotional response and being set free into your imagination. There is a play on words with the tree on the back also being the poet – poet-tree.

My model was the very lovely and utterly talented Tina Hörmann from Austria.

We were also included on Bodypaint City TV's Friday highlights:

On Saturday I worked with the Snazaroo team. Snazaroo is a face & body paint manufacturer based in Minehead, UK (http://www.snazaroo.com/) and obviously the Cats Whiskers team use their face & body paint for all our work!!

The weather changed completely in the morning with a huge downpour of rain, so it was a slow start! Some of the competitions that were being held were delayed or did not go ahead quite as planned but after lunch the sun shone, the day warmed up and the festival ground sprung back into life. We had a busy afternoon on the Snazaroo stand and Luc Bec, a talented face painter and Snazaroo reseller from Belgium, and myself had fun face painting on the Snazaroo stand for the festival goers. I even managed to paint a pregnant tummy!! :)

I may not have gotten into the finals of the brush and sponge competition, but I had planned my design so on Sunday I body painted Tina again but this time in the Snazaroo stand as a demonstration. Sunday's theme was "Spirituality - beyond the visible eye". The idea behind it is the third eye and inner spirituality which are represented by the seven chakras. The path of spiritual enlightenment requires balance which is represented by the yin & yang. The white tiger is yin and the green dragon is yang in Chinese teachings.

When we went to the photo area to take photo's taken of the design, Tina was spotted by one of Gigi D'Agostino's stage crew (he is apparently a really huge DJ in Italy!?) and invited to dance on stage whilst he performed!! :)

It was a fantastic weekend where I met loads of old friends from the face & body art world and made some new ones; learnt loads and laughed even more. I'm looking forward to next year!!

Helen

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Pictures from our Summer adventures

We're fully into the swing of events and fun days at the moment! It's very busy and loads of fun. :) Here are some pictures from our events.

We also had a lovely Thank You note from one of our clients: "Face Painting is one of the top tens of school children and no matter what idea they come up with, you make them look, and feel as special and unique as all children should feel. Thank you." ~Brockeridge Infant School PTA & all the children.

Other comments from Clients: "Nina was great with the children and our adult guests! She was patient, friendly, professional and really skilled. Almost everyone comment on her super work, and Rob and I would like to thank her for helping to make our wedding reception so memorable." ~Mr & Mrs Taylor.

"Thank you. Helen was friendly, well prepared, great with the children & all of them enjoyed themselves." ~ Stagecoach, Trowbridge - Wounds workshop.

Keep enjoying the Summer sun! Hopefully we'll see you at an event soon. :)

Helen

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Harley Quinn body art used for Snazaroo Advert.

Here's the latest body painting advert in Illusion Magazine for Snazaroo which is using my art work!! :)

Helen

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Quotes from our clients and pictures from recent events.

"I just wanted to say a BIG thank you to your team who attended the Dobbies Shepton Mallet opening yesterday. The feedback has been very positive and I was very impressed with your team. All the children looked fantastic and all very happy with their face paint and balloons.
It was a very busy store opening and your team handled the queue of children extremely well. Even after painting all those faces they were still smiling." Amanda Mason, PR & Events Assistant, Dobbies Garden Centres.

"Lovely work, Sharon. Thank you for emailing the photos over. It’s really nice to see the work that is done. I don’t get into the field much myself.
Some nice words from the client: 'Firstly can I just say how absolutely wonderful Sharon was (again!) Her face painting is wonderful and she is also the loveliest girl. An absolute pleasure to see her again and I hope we can use her again next year!" Nicole, Entertainment Manager, Sitech Creations

The photos are all from Sharon. Some are from a 21st birthday party and others are from a Bar-be-que at the Royal British Legion Long Ashton. :)

Enjoy the sunshine.

Helen

http://www.catswhiskers.biz/

Too busy to write at the moment...

... so here are some pictures of what we've been up to and what others have been saying about us!

"Everyone was impressed and amazed by the quality of the work. Very impressive and one of our guests exclaimed it was the "best party ever" after being turned into Spiderman!" Mrs Rawle.

A promotion in Bristol City Centre

Pants in the Park event at Ashton Court.

This is my favourite picture!! We did a balloon modelling workshop for our friends at Frampton Cotterell WI and they loved it! Much amusement. :)

"Firstly thank you so much for the course last Monday, Not only did I learn a lot about face painting I picked up many other tips of the trade as well, Please give Tracey my love !!!!!!. you will be glad to know that I had a party for 12 girls this weekend and manage to beautifully paint them in about 15mins. Butterfly brush was a godsend.
Well thank you once again and I am sure I will be in touch very soon for an upgrade in my face painting repertoire.
Much love to you both
Donna
http://www.bejewelledparties.co.uk/ "

Helen

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Business Clinic Information

If you are woman running a business in or around Bristol, come along to the Business Inspired business clinics running on Thursday 21st May, Wednesday 24th June and Wednesday 22nd July at Playspace, Details are given in the poster attached to this post so click on it and have a read to help your business.

Helen

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