Face Painting at Party on the Hill

Claudia from the Cats Whiskers team was captured by a press photographer whilst face painting at the Party on the Hill, St Micheal's Hill, Bristol this year.  We've been painting at this event for six years and it is always a really fun event with a fantastic atmosphere and great music.

Best wishes

Helen
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Face Painting at Keynsham Music Festival

This morning I received a page from the Evening Post in the mail.  I'm assuming one of the team has posted it as it came with no note!!  Anyhow, it's the article from the Evening Post on 4th July all about the success of the Keynsham Music Festival and shows Louise from the Cats Whiskers Face Painting team with a rather smart Spiderman! :)

Best wishes
Helen
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Snazaroo Face Painting Sticks

Snazaroo have recently launched their face painting sticks, aimed at Mum's and children who want to have a go at face painting for fun.  The sticks are used dry without adding water so are safe for the children to use without creating a mess - and they wash of easily.  Just like all of Snazaroo's products.

Last August I worked with the team at Snazaroo to develop a series of designs that could be created using the sticks and here are a few:

For more information about the sticks go to:

http://www.snazaroo.com/products/face-paint-sticks/

and for the full range of design guides that I helped create, go to: http://www.snazaroo.com/beginners-guide/guides/pf-sticks/ 

Best wishes

Helen

http://www.catswhiskers.biz/

Face Painting Training Workshop for Beginners in May

Cat Whiskers will be holding a Face Painting Training Workshop for Beginners open to all on Sunday 15th May from 10am - 4pm in Downend, Bristol.  Cost is £75 incuding a light lunch.

The course will go through face painting techniques, health & safety and several designs will be taught step by step.

For more information or to book a place on the workshop, please contact Sharon on either 0117 370 6147 or sharon@catswhiskers.biz

Best wishes
Helen

http://www.catswhiskers.biz/

Our Face Painting designs are in the Chuggington Summer Annual!

The Chuggington Summer Annual was released today and now I can finally tell you all that our face painting designs for this popular CBBC programme are included on pages 124 & 125!

This project was an interesting one, with the challenge of meeting the design brief for the Chuggington Trainees - Koko, Wilson and Brewster, using only the colours blue, red, yellow and green. 

Here are the final designs from the Annual:

All photography was done at the studios of our friends Blueskies Photography. (http://www.blueskiesphotography.co.uk/)

Best wishes
Helen Eyre
http://www.catswhiskers.biz/

Face Painting at Croydon House Community Event

In February, Becky from the Cats Whiskers team took part in a community painting event at Croydon House, Bristol.

Here are some pictures from the event along with words of thanks from Mark Kelleher, Customer and Community Officer.

"I would like to say thanks to everybody that came to Croydon House yesterday to help out with our Fun Painting Day.
The day went as well as planned with the children painting on the pre made boards (and the walls, thanks Kath) and the Face Painter from Cats Whiskers managing to keep up with the constant demands from roughly 30-40 children."

Best wishes
Helen
http://www.catswhiskers.biz/

Face Painted British Flags - Step by steps

In February I worked with Snazaroo, the UK face paint manufacturer, to create some step by steps and photographic images for British flags. 

Some of these images are now being used on http://www.snazaroo.com/

To follow the step by step for a full face Union Jack have a look at this link: http://www.snazaroo.com/assets/cpcms/painting_guides/Union_Jack.pdf

To follow the step by step for a cheek art Union Jack design have a look at my beautiful daughter at this link:
http://www.snazaroo.com/assets/cpcms/painting_guides/Union_Jack_Cheek_Art.pdf

For the Scottish Flag or Saltire:
http://www.snazaroo.com/assets/cpcms/painting_guides/Scotland_Saltire.pdf

Here's the step by step for the St George flag:

Create the outline for the flag using a fine brush and white paint.




Fill in the white sections of the flag using a flat brush.



Complete the flag by filling in the cross with red paint.



Best wishes

Helen

http://www.catswhiskers.biz/





Happy New Year & Cats Whiskers Face Painting training day.

Yes, I know we are already well into February so this is a little bit late - but in my defence we've had a really busy January! :)

We've been involved with several interesting and exciting face painting and body art projects, all of which will be revealed at a later date!  It's very frustrating to keep it a secret but as soon as our hard work is in the public domain, I will certainly upload it for all to see!!

So, for now let me tell you all about our Cats Whiskers Face Painting team training day that we took part in yesterday.  We have some fantastic new face painting designs being added into the design books for the new face painting season and had fun learning them all yesterday.

This face painting design is our Sweet Heart Mask - all ready for Valentines Day!

We were also playing with our cheek art offerings for our younger clients and came up with a range of designs for Peppa Pig and Dora the Explorer fans.

Another huge event to hit the Cats Whiskers face painting calendar this year will of course be the Royal Wedding!  So here are a few new designs for the patriotic amongst us.

All the best
Helen
www.catswhiskers.biz

Face Painting pictures from last weekend

Just a few pictures to show you what we were up to at the weekend!

Best wishes
Helen

http://www.catswhiskers.biz/

Face Painting at Weddings

We received a lovely e-mail today from one of our clients that we'd like to share with you.  It was expressing why she uses our services for her Wedding Planning business - Happy Every After Weddings (http://happyeverafterweddings.com/index.html).

I write in regards my daughter`s wedding - you provided services for her at the Tewkesbury Park Hotel in April 2007. For myself, as a wedding planner I know the importance of filling the gap when the room is turned round and photos are taken, we therefore booked with you to cover this time. The price was very reasonable and the guests talked about it for months afterwards.The children waiting to have their faces painted were fascinated and also were able to look through an endless number of photos to give them ideas of what they wanted.



I can truly say that the finished faces were the best I have ever seen.I was amazed at the detail, and that the full face was painted in a really quick time so the children were never bored.Eventually the Bride had her name in sparkly writing and other guests had small sparkly images for the evening.The children enjoyed the rest of the day playing together acting out what they were, it was so much fun for them.

I have since recommended your company to all my brides.Thank you for such a fantastic service, the lady on the day was truly very gifted and the following are just a few of the many comments from guests which I would be happy for you to use;


My little boy had his face painted as a pirate - the result was unbelievable. He had his full face painted very quickly but it looked like an artist had done it and taken hours.


What a fantastic idea! I will use this service for my own wedding next year!


My 2 girls were at first a little hesitant about having it done but the lady asked my 7 year old what her favourite thing was so she had a lion`s face, then my 5 year old had a fairy face with beautifully blended colours and sparkle and was truly stunning.They looked ready to go on stage at a theatre yet it only took a few minutes. They will never forget it.

I would never have thought that this was a service that could be provided for a wedding - it was lovely to watch the young - and old - ones have such a great time. No-one wanted her to leave!

From Lauren,my daughter and the Bride - my mum planned my wedding and when she mentioned this idea I thought it would be good - a little like a stand at a shopping centre. On the day I was totally amazed at the children`s painted faces - I have never seen anything like it before or since. My only regret is that I wish we had booked her to stay all evening too ! I want a party so that I can book them again - a huge thank you xxx

Best wishes
Helen
http://www.catswhiskers.biz/

Pictures from a Summer Holiday Workshop

I've been looking back through some of the images from the Summer and came across these from a Summer Camp where we ran a theatrical makeup workshop for a week. It covered amongst other things - face painting, aging, wounds & special effects. The pictures made me chuckle so I thought I'd share. I particularly love the old ladies in their wigs!

All the best,

Helen

www.catswhiskers.biz

Pictures from Lacock Abbey Witches & Wizards Day

The lovely Len! I think it might have been cold working outside ;o)

The Count - (http://www.fezthejezter.co.uk/)
A little potion!

It doesn't matter where we go, the pink kittens always find us. ;o)

Ouch!

Nasty!

Blue Batterfly.

All the best,

Helen

http://www.catswhiskers.biz/

Face Painting supplier to the National Trust

Cats Whiskers Face Painting is now an official supplier to the National Trust. We've face painted at many of their locations across the UK over the past few years but have only recently completed the paperwork to become a regular supplier with an official vendor ID number!

Most recently we provided face painting and special effects wounds makeup at Lacock Abbey for their Autumn School Holiday activities. They have kindly provided us with a reference that we'd love to share with you.

“We held a Witches and Wizards Day at Lacock Abbey. The Cats Whiskers team provided face painting and casualty make up. They were fab.

Really friendly and easy to work with, sitting in an outside marquee at the end of October and staying there all day with total professionalism. Their face paintings were excellent and they had a great manner with the children. The face paintings also did not take that long per child, which was ideal and kept the queue at a manageable length.”
~ R Holtom, Assistant Visitor Services Manager, Lacock Abbey

Sharon and Len had a wonderful time painting everyone at Lacock Abbey and I'm hoping that they may have even had a chance to take a few pictures that I'll be able to share with you next week.

Have a good weekend.
Helen
www.catswhiskers.biz

Face painting humour

Practising face painted rabbits at our last training night - spot the difference ;o)

Helen

www.catswhiskers.biz

FACE Conference - Monster Award

Last weekend the FACE (Face Painting Association) Conference was held in Dawlish, Devon. The conference starts with the associations AGM and then involves the members in many demos, business seminars and competitions.

On the Friday evening after dinner we have a quiz and play face painting games and I also got to paint my friend and fellow entertainer, Dave Hickory. http://www.davehickory.co.uk/
Dave had spent most of the day creating a stunning Balloon Portcullis.

I was asked to do a demo on Clown's and Jesters - to keep with the weekends theme of the Medieval.

I came second in the Monster Competition which was sponsored by Dauphines of Bristol and received an engraved plate, a certificate and a voucher to go shopping! :)
Thanks for Sam from Charles Fox who was my lovely model!

On the Saturday evening we had a Medieval Gala with amazing entertainment and everyone in costume. Here I am in my Medieval Gown and I also painted Adrian from Snazaroo as an Evil Jester!



On Sunday we painted most of the children who came to the hotel for Mothers Day lunch. This young lady challenged me to paint a goth style face that matched her black, white and teal outfit so we settled for a skelebat design which she was really pleased with.



All in all a fantastic weekend with lots of new ideas shared!

Helen
www.catswhiskers.biz

Face Painting & Balloon Modelling fun at UWE

Below are just a few of our face painting & balloon modelling pictures from the Freshers weekend at UWE. As usual this was a really great booking with lots of laughs. We saw the return of the Aled hat challenge, as well as a request for a wearable duck balloon for the student's beach party later in the week! Sharon demonstrated her skills with some of our new eye designs. These eye designs will be making an appearance on our newly revamped face painting design sheets in 2010.



Helen
http://www.catswhiskers.biz/