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

Testing, testing!

As those of you who know me are painfully aware - I love my iPhone - and this is just a little test to see how well I can update this blog from my phone. :)

Here is a picture of some henna that I did for a friend:


And here's the bruised and battered Tori who bravely assists me when Cats Whiskers do wounds workshops for the Merlin Theatre in Frome!!


If this works I'll have no excuses about updating the blog! Lol!!

Helen
Www.catswhiskers.biz

- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Workshop announcement - 10th October

Cats Whiskers will be running a face painting and Special FX wounds workshop on Saturday 10th October 2009 between 10 - 4:30 at the Downend Folk House, Bristol. Price will be £65 for the day including a buffet lunch.

We will be including face painting techniques, health & safety issues and covering designs for cats, butterflies, flower fairies and goblins as well as using the special effect wax to create gruesome wounds. Depending upon time available we may even get to do a Vampire to get you ready for Halloween!!

If you are interested in joining us, please contact the office on 0117 370 6147 or e-mail Sharon on sharon@catswhiskers.biz for a booking form.

So much fun, so little time!

A big thank you to everyone who booked us during the summer! The Cats Whiskers team have had SO much fun!! :) We've been to parties, festivals, summer camps, fun days and open days all over the area in Bristol, Bath and the South West. So, my apologies for taking so long to update the blog - but there has just been way too much fun going on for me to catch up until now.

So, the children are back at school, the tree's are turning colour, nights are drawing in and we're really looking forward to Halloween!!

But before we get carried away with the witches and vampires, here are some of the highlights of the summer:

Camp Xtra workshop -

Private commission for a fancy dress party - quote from the client, "Thanks very much, it was a great success and was cool how realistic it looked. I'm sure that I'll be in touch again if another opportunity arises to be painted for some reason. It was great fun and just made the costume come alive."

Henna design for a holiday:

From South Gloucestershire library workshops:

A Ben 10 party:

Freshers welcome weekend:

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

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

http://www.catswhiskers.biz/

Too busy face painting to take photos!!

We have had a fabulous couple of weeks working hard to entertain people and assist in promotions with face painting, balloon modelling, temporary tattoos, workshops and henna. So busy in fact that we've not been able to take many photographs to show you!

We have entertained at birthday parties with face painting, balloon modelling and even a casualty and wounds workshop!

We have face painted at promotional events for Clevedon Children's Centre, Tescos Metro Staple Hill and in Villa Park for the Aston Villa versus Hull match! The Villa Park football event was incredibly busy but really amazing fun!

We have partied with the students at the May Ball creating delicate eye masks for the girls and obviously painting one or two spidermen and tigers for the boys. ;)

We've undertaken a private Henna booking and private training workshops.

And we've had a slightly more cultural moment face painting at Cheltenham Jazz Festival.

Here are the three pictures the team have managed to take that were in focus! LOL!


Helen
http://www.catswhiskers.biz/

Blood and Gore workshop

Today I did a wounds & casualty make up workshop at the Merlin Theatre in Frome for a group of 8 - 14 year olds. They were a lovely group and we had a lot of fun as you can see from the pictures!

This young lady really went for it! And the fantastic story she came up with to explain her range of wounds and injuries kept us all entertained.

Helen

http://www.catswhiskers.biz/

Library Wounds Workshops

This week and the coming week we are working with the South Glos. Libraries providing some Blood and Gore workshops for teenagers! They have been loads of fun and the kids we've met so far have been loving the fake blood and the opportunity to create gruesome injuries without the pain!!



Here are some of the images so far:

Helen

http://www.catswhiskers.biz/

Wounds Training Night

It was a team training night tonight and we were recapping on bruising, wounds and general gore for the newer members of the team.





Here's a slashed wrist by Michelle!

And here's a burn that I did on my hand.

Great fun had by all!!

Helen
http://www.catswhiskers.biz/