Step-by-Step Revisited - 2003 Contest

Back by popular demand we are having another Step by Step contest. These are very helpful for the beginner face painters. We suggest you send in three to five photos along with a text description of each step. Contest closed Sept 2005.

Contests ends when we have a total of 25 step-by-step entries.

1: Add a back drop of color then do dots for your roses. I use my fingers; saves time and the paint dries quicker because it is on thin. 1b: Starting from the top, work down bringing the brush towards the center. You should get the flicks done with one load of paint.	2: Once you have mastered that flick action you can do a rose in seconds. Place different colored dots and still use the same white for all buds. Do different size dots. I use a thin liner but if I want the roses chubbier, I use a standard round #2.	3: You're just about there and the crowd goes wild; such a great affect in such little time. I use a standard #5 round; load green than a touch of black. Use the very tip of the brush with a flick action. Make sure the paint is not to dry. This takes a lot of practice.	4: Add some dots and you are done. After doing this a few times you can pump roses out by the bucket load. For a bolder look, I use a bright rose color e.g. red and the outline is done in black. This gives a dramatic effect.	5: Add swirls and glitter. On most roses I do on the cheek do not have the shading behind. They look just as good plain. If you would like more examples please e-mail me and I'll show you more. email
Lynne Jamieson, Werribee Victoria Australia, link Sept 21, 2005 For your enjoyment, not for votes.
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Step 1:    Load a sponge with white paint so that the sponge and paint are damp not wet.  Sponge this white paint around the eye area as shown in the shape of the mask outline and the jewel.  If there are any wet patches of white paint blend them out with a dry sponge.  This will stop the other colours blending with the white when they are applied.  Load a little silver onto the white sponge and apply to the centre of the jewel.	Step 2:    With the child's eyes closed, use a flat brush well loaded with black paint to outline the shape of the eye mask.  Then use just the corner of a dry sponge to drag the wet black paint over the eye area and fill in the mask.  Load only a very small amount of black paint onto the corner of the sponge to add more black paint if required.	Step 3:    Load the flat brush with sky blue and outline the jewel and the top of the mask.  Again use a sponge loaded with a little sky blue to drag the colour out and fill in the forehead.	Step 4:    Repeat with the flat brush and sponge to outline the lower edge of the mask and fill in the bottom part of the face.  Load a medium round brush with electric blue and add the mask detail.
HONORABLE MENTION
Helen Eyre - Cats Whiskers; Bristol, UK; link #1
1: Outline and colour unicorn's head and part of it's body in white or other preferred colour.	2: With sweeping strokes, surround the head with a full coloured mane and tail.	3: Highlight mane with complimenting tones, here blue and pink are used on a purple base.	4: Outline unicorn in black, add colour to eye and highlight mane with thin white strokes.	5: Add shine to eye with a small white dot and lots of glitter to mane and horn, to bring this magical unicorn to life!
SECOND PLACE
Carley Taylor - Indowiz Art, NSW Australia, Sept 21, 2005 #2
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Take a piece of special effect wax about .75 inch in diameter and form it into a snake shape. Press it firmly on the location on the body where you want it. It is best to place it over a harder, less flexible part of the body like the forehead.	With your fingers blend the edges into the skin to help it stick better as well as look more like a real open wound. For best hold results you can wipe the skin surface with alcohol to remove oils.	With a plastic spatula or other tool, slice down the wax to form an open cut. As another hint you can wet your fingers or spatula with a little water to prevent it from sticking to you or the spatula.	With a stipple sponge and black and then red add some bruising. Paint black down in the cut to show depth as well as keeping the cut from sticking together. If needed also add some flesh color.	Drip some blood gel to make it look like blood is oozing out of the cut. Take some black thread and a tooth pick or paper clip and poke little pieces of thread on either side of the cut to show stitches.
HONORABLE MENTION
Gary Cole, Dallas, TX link Aug 23, 2005 #3
With a sponge paint a base with ochre yellow, light beige or yellow. Then add a light brown to the outer rim under the eyebrow and on the edges of the nose.	With the light brown add the edges for the muzzle. With your brush and green paint the lips and start to paint the stripes.	Continue to add more stripes. Use some lighter or darker greens to give the stripes some character	With your sponge and some white add lightness under the nose. White a fine round brush and white add some whisker dots and further define some of the shapes on the face.	Finish off your face with some extra details such as black around the white whisker dots.
Erin (10 yrs old), Whitby, Ontario #4
1) You will need the following items to do this effect: Red and Black face paint, a gel product (a special effects gelatine, Vaseline, Tuplast®, dissolved food grade gelatine, etc.), Liquid Latex (professional latex or latex based false eyelash adhesive), Tissue (face or toilet) separated to single ply, with edges torn and jagged, a couple single use cosmetic wedge sponges with one torn into chunks for applying latex, and a sharp  implement (toothpick, brush handle, fork, or scissors…) First, apply a red base with a sponge and blend out the edges well.	2) Apply gelatine or whatever you are using to the centre of the red area.  Do not apply all the way to the edge of the red area, keep it to the centre or in separate spots and leave it lumpy.	3) Place one layer of tissue over the gel, covering it totally, but leaving the edges of the red exposed.  Using the torn sponges dab the latex over all of the tissue sealing it down.  Start on the outer edges and work your way to the centre.  Make sure all the tissue has been covered.  It should look lumpy in spots.  Let latex dry – it will be clear when dry.  If you want you can speed this up with a blow-dryer!	4) Apply black paint over the dry latex, making sure to cover all the tissue.  Leave the edges red for the edge of the burn – add more red if needed.  Blend the edge of the black paint into the red.	5) Using the sharp tool, rip up the tissue where the gel is lumpy, tear it open making holes so the oozy gel shows through.  If any tissue shows apply a little more red or black colour to it.  Vaseline can be added to make the burn ooze, which is always a nice effect. You can create very real looking burns very easily!
HONORABLE MENTION
Shannon Fennell,  Grande Prairie, Alberta  July 13, 2005  link  #5
1. Start with a red base.	2. With a medium flat brush, draw a triangle at the top of the forehead, paint a thin line down the centre of the nose, then add diamond shapes, then paint the end of the nose & triangle under nose, then shapes on bottom lip.	3. Draw a line from corner of mouth to ear on both sides of face, adding a step in the line on each side. Fill in below this with black, shaping round chin as shown. Add black to top lip.	4. Paint round eyes as shown.	5. Finally, add strokes on cheeks and above eyes. Now wasn't that a lot easier than you thought?! Where did I leave my light saber...
Katriona Sinclair June 23, 2005 #6
1. Lay down a soft green base all over the center of the face. Blend in a slightly darker green along the edges giving it the alien shape.	2. Now outline very large eyes with black, and fill in a large red circle for eye ball.	3. Add white to the eyes. Put a black stripe down the red eye ball and add a white dot to highlight the eye.	4. Now add a black oval covering the mouth. Encircle the black mouth with a red-pink oval. Then add the sharp fanged teeth coming from the cheeks into the mouth area as well as from under the mouth area in white. Make these extend to give a bony fanged look.	5. Highlight all the fangs with black. Add depth to the teeth by adding brown to bases of teeth. Add yellow "veins" on the forehead and coming down from eyes. Add glitter to eyes. Looks cool with eyes closed, or looks like a double eyed Alien with eyes open.
Meryl Hall,  Bancroft, Ontario, Canada,     link   June 1, 2005     #7
Step 1: Choose your colors. Start with white on eyes and muzzle area. Add a contrasting color on forehead, by eyes, and at chin.	Step 2: Start adding your black lines. Start on forehead and then work down - this way you won't smudge. Tiger lines are start thin and then lay your brush down so that it spreads and then lift to get small line to finish. Add spots. Add nose.	Step 3: Add tiger lines under eye. Add muzzle. Make sure that the line from the nose to the upper lip forms a thin triangle. Make whiskers by skipping your brush to make dots and finish by laying it down.	Step 4: Add your spots on chin, color lip with contrasting color and add glitter to entire face. You can also add dots to various areas of the face to accent.	Step 5: Finished, beautiful tiger.
FIRST PLACE
Pam Trent - Way Wicked Art - Albuquerque NM email  Mar 15, 2005 #8
Note: Use a double brush or Scroll brush for this dragon - or you can simply use two lines. Make one and follow with second. Step 1: Make your head suing the double brush or with two lines.	Step 2: Make your body. Give the body a snake effect with curves.	Step 3: Add flares by nose and under jaw. Also add red on belly of the beast. You can also add fire at this point.	Step 4: Add teeth and an eye. You can use yellow or lime green for the eye.	Step 5: You may add green (man glitter), or just leave it as is. It is a crowd pleaser!
HONORABLE MENTION
Pam Trent - Way Wicked Art - Albuquerque NM email  Mar 15, 2005 #9
Step 1: Put down your blue background and with very bright orange make your commas, but elongated. Use a #6 round or larger.	Step 2: With bright yellow add side fins top fins and tail fins.	Step 3: Add white for eyes. You can also add small scales if you wish.	Step 4: Add your black to outline. Use a fine detail brush to outline. You can also outline scales if you have put them on the backs of the fish.	Step 5: Add your water with white - add glitter and you have beautiful Koi fish.
HONORABLE MENTION
Pam Trent - Way Wicked Art - Albuquerque NM email  Feb 10, 2005 #10
Step 1. Using White, paint a circle and outline the yin yang design, colour one side with white as shown.	Step 2. Fill in the other side with black and add the smaller circles, black on white and white on black. Basic Yin Yang design	Step 3. Add some flames around border, alternatively you can use arcs, triangles, whatever shape and colour as you like!	Step 4. Start outlining the border, layer by layer with different colours.	Step 5. Finally, outline with black and 'garnish' with glitter, glitter, glitter.
HONORABLE MENTION
Carley Taylor, NSW Australia,  email  Jan 20, 2005 #11
1) Sponge Sparkle yellow on either side of nose using outwards strokes.	2) Sponge sparkle turquoise on outside of face and drag inwards over yellow, turn sponge and drag yellow back to make a green blend.	3) Using a fine round white brush, draw butterfly wings and add white dots.	4) Add detail to nose and wings with electric blue and black.	5) Add electric purple on lips, add glitter gel dots down nose and onto detail, add sprinkly glitter dust.
HONORABLE MENTION
Tracey Robinson, Faces Galore, UK Jan 13, 2005 #12
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Step 1: You will need a fan brush, small scissors and hair styling gel. Put the gel on the bristles and allow to set. This makes it easier to trim.	Step 2: Hold the bristles as close to the ends as possible. Trim small amounts at a time to the desired shape. I like mine rounded at the top and down to a point.	Step 3: Load your new butterfly brush with the lightest color all the way to the metal ferrule, the middle shade about half way, and the darkest only on the outer edges.	Step 4: Use your brush like you would a stamp. Lay one side straight down flat and lift straight up, flip and do the other wing. Add a body, antennas and glitter.	Step 5: Depending on how much paint you load on the brush, sometimes you can get two or three butterflies out of the same loaded brush.
HONORABLE MENTION
Ruth Schoner, USA, August 13, 2004 email   #13
Step 1:  This ethnic mask design is very easy to do, brilliant for beginners and has a striking effect when its finished! Begin by painting a thick zig-zag across the middle of the forehead, a stripe down the bridge of the nose and a fat triangle over the bottom of the chin in bright yellow. Also paint two squares in the centre of the cheeks using a bright red and thickly outline them with yellow.	Step 2: Outline the zig-zag, the stripe on the nose and the triangle on the chin with red. Make the outline on the nose slightly wavy. Then paint a fishtail shape next to the squares on the cheeks in a bright green and fill in the green around the forehead and nose as shown in the picture. To complete this stage, paint a white hexagon with a wide top and bottom around the triangle on the chin.	Step 3: Paint a white zig-zag across the top of the red on the forehead following the shape you have already created. Also outline the shapes on the cheeks with white.	Step 4: Fill in all the remaining unpainted areas with black. It is best to use a brush rather than a sponge to do this so that your coverage will be thicker and more even. Allow the black to overlap the bottom inner side of the shapes on the cheeks. Use a thin brush for the spirals on the cheeks. Paint three small black notches on the yellow part of the zigzag and then add a shape like a bird footprint on the green space between the eyebrows. Also add some black squiggles along the bridge of the nose.	Step 5: Finally, line the bottom of the eyes with red. You will need to load your brush quite heavily with paint in order to make the red bright enough. Using a dry brush can also help to make the coverage thicker.
Emma Bates (19), Coventry, UK, May 3, 2004, email    #14
"Underwater Scene"  Step 1: Begin by sponging the sea bed in a nice bright yellow and top with a vibrant sea blue. Try to make the coverage as even as possible. Using a muddy green and a thin brush held lightly between your fingers, sweep upwards from just below the bottom of the blue, wavering from side to side. Repeat twice more and join together at the bottom to form the seaweed.	Step 2: Using a pale bubblegum pink, paint a large wiggly-lined asterisk (*) or star shape next to the seaweed and continue to add more tendrils until you have an anemone like this one. Keep the paint quite thin to allow the background blue to show through the pink, creating a translucent effect.	Step 3: For the Blue Tang fish, start with a long dark blue diamond and round off the corners. Keep bottom left corner pointed to form the nose. Paint a yellow square over top right corner and add 2 small triangles to form the tips of the tail fin. Add a yellow fin in the centre. Outline whole fish in black, painting a thick black oval around the fin and then connect it to the top Add a dot for the eye and lines on the tail.	Step 4: For the Clownfish, paint a bright orange basic fish shape, making the top quite fat and adding a little point to form a nose. Add a large arch shape in the centre at the top and then a smaller one to the left to form the fins (make sure you do the same at the bottom but smaller). In white, paint 3 lines along the fish and add white to the tips of the fins and tail. Outline the stripes and the edges of the fins in black with a dot for the eye.	Step 5: Finally, blend some black lines through the tendrils of the anemone and seaweed using a wet brush and semi-watery paint to create texture and there you are! A small version of "Finding Nemo" right before your eyes!
Emma Victoria (19), Coventry, UK, May 3, 2004, email - #15
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Step 1: First paint a large white egg in the centre of the forehead. Either side of this paint two smaller white egg shapes, above the eyebrows.	Step 2: Use bold colours (blue, red, yellow, pink) to paint zig zag lines across the eggs. Use white to paint ribbon shapes between the eggs and down the side of the cheeks.	Step 3: Use the yellow to add to the ribbon shapes.	Step 4: Paint the lips pink.
Gill O'Neill  - Luton, UK  - email , Apr 23, 2004 #16
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Step 1: With a medium sized brush and red paint, paint several red hearts around the face. Use a finer brush to include one or two smaller hearts. Paint the lips red.	Step 2. With a medium brush paint some swirly lines between the hearts in red. Then take the fine brush and white again to paint around the outline of the larger hearts, and paint white lines alongside the red swirls.	Step 3: Use the same brush to paint little white dots just inside the edge of three of the larger hearts, and along the opposite sides of the red swirly lines.
Gill O'Neill Luton, UK Feb 20, 2004, #17
Lay down your foundation colours	Add in lines with brush and leopard  markings with a sponge wrapped with  an elastic	Add in more detail outlining	Add Glitter	Finished Product with Accessories
Sheri Gundry,  link ,  Feb 20, 2004, #18
Step 1: Sponge the entire face lightly with white paint. With a clean sponge, blend pink around the outside of the face and paint the eyelids with pale blue paint.	Step 2: With a medium brush and dark blue paint, paint swirls from the top of the nose onto the forehead.	Step 3: Paint blue swirls coming from the eyes down onto the cheeks.	Step 4: Use pink paint to add swirls above the eye brow and on the cheeks.	Step 5: Use a fine brush with purple and white to add small dots to accentuate the lines of some of the swirls.
Gill O'Neill, Luton, England email -   Jan 12, 2004   #19
1: I find this butterfly to be both easy to paint and pretty as well.  I begin by using a round brush to paint the head and body of the butterfly down the bridge of the nose using black paint.	2: Next I take my fan brush and load it with the first of the three wing colors I have chosen to work with, in this case pink.  The paint should be of medium to thin consistency.  Working out from the nose begin to paint the base of each of the four butterfly wings.  Leave the brush marks at the far edge uneven, as you will want the colors to overlap.	3. Now load the brush with the second color, yellow and work out from the first color but overlap slightly.  In other words you will start the yellow on top of the pink.  The overlapping strokes should be light, you don't want to cover the pink completely just mingle the colors together. (This picture shows this especially well at the upper right side of the photo).	4: I complete the wings using the fan brush and the final color, using the same technique as in step three.  I then outline the wings with a round brush using the first wing color.	5: Using a round brush add the antenna.  At this point you are on your own to do as little or as much to embellish the butterfly. Sometimes I just add glitter, usually in a contrasting color in dots at the ends of the wings. You can add lines, dots, curls whatever inspires you at the time.  I always add glitter at the end however no matter what I decide to add to the design. This always brings a smile; I hope you have fun with it.
Katie Sullivan, Wethersfield, CT - email -   Jan 12, 2004   #20
1: This is just an example of a very simple fairy that will be just an upper body and wings. I usually put down a white base, followed by the barest hint of orange to get a peachy flesh-tone color (which is why it blends in with my arm so well), and then the blue blob beside the base will be the wings later.	2: Now I've shaded in the outside of the arms and hands, as well as the face, with brown. Use the end of your brush-handle on the wet makeup to blend easily into the base. I used a bit of bluish-purple to outline the wings, and I've put in some white where the eyes will be.	3: Long, flowing hair can help obscure the fact that the fairy isn't wearing anything, ;) I just gave her yellow hair, and mixed some white into my yellow for highlights. I've also added some white highlights to the wings.	4: Now the black outlines. I outlined everything at one go, so that's why the change is so drastic from the previous picture. You want to make sure the face is at least well-proportioned, because that's the main draw to a fairy (a pretty face), and then that the wings are pretty. The hair can be as wild as you please because it's helping keep the fairy somewhat PG-rated as well as quick (stopping to add clothing is just going to drag your speed out...)	5: Dots! More highlights! Blue eyes, red lips, pretty flowers! Add glitter to taste, and voila! A fairy any teen would be happy to have on their arm or cheek. I would usually add swirls going up the side of the face onto the forehead, or swirls going up and down the arm to complete the design, or what-have-you. The entire thing should take you no more than five minutes, with practice.
THIRD PLACE
Des from Orlando, FL - email  - Jan 12, 2004        #21
Step 1:  I've found that both boys and girls, kids and adults love to have flames painted on them.  The flames can be look good painted on the face or the arm. First I start with a nice bright orange. I find it is easier to start at the top and work myself down. I make a nice fat 'u' shape with one side a little higher than the other.	Step 2:  I work myself down the flame keeping in mind the "u" shapes that the most popular "race car type" flames have.  Be careful not to make it too symmetrical. You want it to have a wild shape.	Step 3:  Then I take a wide chisel brush and load one side with the orange and the other side with a nice bright yellow. then I fill in the flame alternating the colors so that there are yellow highlights.	Step 4:  Using the same brush, I do a side load of red.  Meaning I load just one side of the brush.  I  put in some red shading, being careful not to do too much, so I don't cover up my other colors. I find it is better to paint as dry as possible because the colors seem to blend better. You can also use a sponge or dry brush to blend if you need to.	Step 5:  Then I  take my # 6 round brush and outline the flame with blue. I use electric blue, it gives it a little sparkle. Then I put a few dabs of sparkles on here and there. (not pictured because the sparkles don't photograph well)
HONORABLE MENTION
Amy Leichty, Sun City CA. email Oct 16, 2003         #22
Step 1 - Prepare feathers in advance. Using hot glue join two feathers, add sequins / gems. Spray feathers with a little hairspray and sprinkle with Glitter. Using restickable / repositionable adhesive "prestick" by applying glue on to the tape and covering with a piece of sticker backing paper. "Jim Howles restickable adhesive" works wonderfully, check out clown nose suppliers (silly farm, proknows) for other adhesives.	Step 2 - Attach a small piece of tape to back of feather, this provides a better surface for your adhesive. (If the tape does not stick well use a little hot glue). If you are using spirit gum or latex adhesives go to step	Step 3 - Store feather for future use. Pocket photo albums work well. Feathers can be slipped into photo sleeve and pages of coordinating gems / sequins / shapes, prestuck to sticker backing paper, can be taped to opposite page.	Step 4- For a quick and effective face design- If your feather is not "prestuck" apply adhesive. Sponge a crescent of colour onto forehead and opposite cheek. Paint two "s" shaped lines, starting near hairline and curling onto cheek, leave space between them at forehead and cheek for sponged colour to show through.	Step 5 - Add glitter/shimmer. Attach feather at top of "s". Accent with painted or stuck-on stars / flowers / hearts / butterflies... whatever you like.
Belinda "Jellybeans" Roals, Newcastle, NSW, Australia, link, Sept 24, 2003 -  #23
Step 1: Using a sponge add white paint as a base coat to the perimeter of the face.	Step 2: Using a sponge, add stripes of color about the width of the sponge, from the perimeter of the face to the center. Start at the chin line and work in a semicircle toward the forehead. The nose and area around the mouth need not be painted. Do the same on the other side of the face. Don’t worry about finishing the ends of the stripes near the mouth as they will be covered with brown paint for the body later. The other ends of the stripes can be adjusted somewhat when you use the black to outline at the end.	Step 3: With a brush, add brown paint for the body forming a bowling pin shape starting in the center of the forehead, down the nose and around the mouth and chin area.	Step 4: Almost finished look, add the orange beak and the red snood.	Step 5: With a black fine brush add outlines to all the feathers. Add lines inside the feathers for details. Using the black fine brush draw the neck of the turkey by following the contour of the tip of the nose. Add the arms by starting at the edge of the underside of the nose and draw them on the upper lip area under the nose. Add the eyes. (Perfect for the self stick wiggly eyes!)
Kris Rhoades, McKeesport, PA - link - Sept 17, 2002 #24
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1) With yellow and the brush of your choice paint a large circle, followed by an oval under it. Add also the base coat for the two ears.	2 ) With a medium brush and orange paint add the back ground to the upper face.	3) Using light pink add the nose and inside of the mouth.	4) Now comes the hard part. Using a fine round brush and black paint, outline the nose, mouth, upper and lower jaw area, add detail to the ears, encircle the eyes but do not forget to add the eye brows, eye balls and whiskers.
HONORABLE MENTION
Tracey Robinson from the U.K.- Aug 20, 2003 - #25

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