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
www.catswhiskers.biz

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
http://www.catswhiskers.biz/

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/

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/

Get into Biz TV interview with Cats Whiskers Face Painting

Here is a clip from an interview I took part in with Richard from Get into Biz TV (http://www.gibz.tv/) at Leigh Court which was organised by Carol from Coaching 4 Results (http://www.coaching4rslts.com/). The aim was to provide interesting busniess tips to other businesses and to share your busniess story - very tricky in a minute and a half!!

It was a really interesting event - although I may have to stick to radio from here on in ;o)



Helen
http://www.catswhiskers.biz/

Womens Own article for Cancer Research UK & Do Crafts

This week I'm in Womens Own magazine supporting the Cancer Research UK & Do Crafts campaign to make cards for sale in the Cancer Research UK shops to raise funds for this worthy charity. Here's the article:



Helen
http://www.catswhiskers.biz/

Face & Body Art International Convention (FABAIC) 2009 Cover Girl!

In 2008 I travelled over to FABAIC in Florida to teach at the convention (See my blog entry about the trip:http://helen-at-cats-whiskers.blogspot.com/2008/06/body-painting-for-bodies-alive-at.html#links) and whilst I was there I took part in a spectacular performance organised by Christopher Agostino. The team I worked with painted seven girls for the "Dragon Dance". (Here's a link to the video of the performance of the Dragon Dance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hua8L_tQoto)


Imagine my surprise when in July this year at the World Body Painting Championships in Austria, I bumped into one of the lovely models we'd painted and she mentioned that our photograph with our body painted models had been used for the front cover of the FABAIC 2009 brochure!


So, although the event happened in May of this year, I have finally tracked down a copy of the brochure and here it is!! Click on it to get a bigger view.

Unfortunately I don't know the names of all the models, but the painters are from the left Pam Trent, me, Karen Sawyer, Ginny C, Fairy Emily, Susie Pierce and Katie Hunt.

So, amazingly - I'm a cover girl!! ;)

Helen

http://www.catswhiskers.biz/

Face Painting for Children in Need at BBC Bristol & meeting Anthony Head

Friday 20th November was BBC Children in Need and the Cats Whiskers team supported the event in two different venues. Half of us were entertaining the wonderful volunteers who answer the phones and take the donations and the other half of us were invited to the canteen at BBC Bristol where the regional portion of the BBC Children in Need broadcast was taking place.

BBC Points West presenter Alex Lovell and actor Anthony Head were this years presenters. Great fun was had by everyone visiting as well as the whole of the Cats Whiskers team. Becky, a HUGE Wallace & Gromit fan, was allowed to hold the real Gromit! In her own wors, it was like her own personal Jim'll Fix It!! The team also had their photo's taken with Pudsey and Anthony Head and I was lucky enough to paint a Pudsey on his cheek and have a little moment on the TV with the presenters. :)

Here are some pictures from the evening from the BBC website and here are some of ours:



Helen
http://www.catswhiskers.biz/

Body Painting & Get Technical in Illusion Magazine Issue 10

The eagerly anticipate issue 10 of Illusion magazine (www.illusionmagazine.co.uk) has finally arrived on my doorstep!

In this edition Snazaroo (www.snazaroo.com) have once again chosen one of my body paintings to advertise their wonderful brand of paint, which we at Cats Whiskers use for all our face and body painting work. The editing team have done an amazing job translating my technical page from the random scribbles I send them into a beautifully polished and professional piece of work. My thanks to them!!

Now to grab a cup of tea and sit back to read the rest of the magazine. :)

Helen
www.catswhiskers.biz

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

http://www.catswhiskers.biz/

Bristol City New Kit Article from BCFC web site

Here's the article with Edd body painted with the new kit from the BCFC web site - just for Sharon. ;)

Helen

http://www.catswhiskers.biz/

The new Bristol City football kit in body paint!

Yesterday Sharon and I body painted Bristol City Football Club fan, Edd Parsons, with the latest club strip for a photoshoot with Liam Fontaine. Edd was a great model and game for a laugh! I particularly like the picture of him stood in the stands cheering on his team!

Here's a link to the article on the Bristol City Football Club website: http://www.bcfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10327~1634137,00.html

And here's a link to the gallery of images showing the new kit and our bodypainted version:
http://www.bcfc.co.uk/page/Gallery/0,,10327~1634123,00.html

Helen
http://www.catswhiskers.biz/

Cover Artists!

OK, so it's been a while since I've blogged but it certainly isn't because there's been nothing to blog about! We've been really busy with work, exciting projects and taking orders. :)

I've also gotten quite obsessed with Twitter, so if you follow my feed (CatsWhiskersFP), you'll get a snap shot of the madness and mayhem that we exist in!!

One of the most recent events to get really excited about was that Sharon and I became cover artists!! We recently worked with Bristol City Football Club to body paint midfielder Marvin Elliott for his focus piece in their match programme and it was used as the cover image as well. :D
Here are some more pictures from the shoot:

As you can see it was a really fun shoot to do.

And here is the finished article: (click on the pics to make them big enough to read)

Enjoy! :)

Helen

http://www.catswhiskers.biz/

Web article and pictures from the Evening Post

Here's the article from the Bristol City website about the Comic Relief body painting and the picture from the Bristol Evening Post. :)

Helen

http://www.catswhiskers.biz/

Snazaroo advert using our Body Painting!!

Snazaroo (http://www.snazaroo.com/), the face & body paint manufacturer based in Minehead, Somerset has used one of my body painting images for their advertising in the latest edition of Illusion Magazine (http://www.illusionmagazine.co.uk/1.html)!

I also have a face painting techniques article in the magazine.

Happy day!

Helen
http://www.catswhiskers.biz/

The Evening Post Article

The press release about the body painting made it into the Evening Post on Friday whilst we were away at the convention and I've finally got my hands on a copy! LOL!



Helen
http://www.catswhiskers.biz/

We're in the Western Daily Press today!

Last week I did a body painting on a wonderful lady called Jo on behalf of Cancer Research UK. She was body painted with the latest t-shirt design for the "All girls together" campaign for Breast Cancer Awareness.

Today the article and a picture of the body painting made it into the Western Daily Press. We've both been interviewed today and hopefully there will be a bigger feature in next Wednesday's edition too. :)

Here's one of the original pictures from the session, taken by Simon from Blue Skies Photography. (http://www.blueskiesphotography.co.uk/)




Helen
http://www.catswhiskers.biz/