Just in case you missed it...the Wolfe Bros. are teaching in Chicago!!!

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All you Chicagoland artists, join me and Randi (the organizing artist) for 2 days with the Wolfe Brothers.
$300 for 2 days from 9 am - 4 pm of hands on learning with the best! It's on the southwest side of Chicago and it will be cancelled if we don't get 10 artists on board. Soooo please sign up, I REALLY want to attend this class!

For more information, email Randi Naccarato at randinac@yahoo.com
Tell her Wina sent you!!!!

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Major disappointment! Today I SHOULD have been learning from the Wolfe Bros,
but not enough artists (only 10 were needed) signed up. Dang! I should be wearing black.
I am in deep mourning!!!!!

[Alison]

Oh Dear Wina ~
You did miss an excellent event.  I took an event with the Wolfe Bros a few years ago, and I was so impressed. 
It would have been an uplift for you even though you're work is already excellent.

You probably know about this stuff already, but I remember one of my favorite parts of my Wolfe-Brothers experience was that they taught us to look for places on the face as landmarks.  So instead of trying to match up a stroke on the left with a stroke on the right, I now just decide based on things like - how far away from the corner cheekbone

Alison

[Sherry]

Oh, good tip Alison!  I'll have to try that one out.  I took a Wolfe Bros. class, but they didn't get into that.  It was a dragon class.

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Hopefully, my friend will try to run this event in November, when the summer gigs have come and gone.

[Alison]

Oh I'm sure the Wolfe Bros would be great at dragons!
I was once at a Convention with Mama Clown in NJ.  I wish I could remember who did a fantastic dragon in the front of the room.  Used limited spots of netting at the end which made all the difference.  Do you know what I mean about netting?

Alison

[Sherry]

Putting a net or mesh on it and painting over?

[Alison]

Yes.  It's something that I've been doing for
Snakes
every since I started face-painting. 

I take the red plastic mesh that I get from buying a big box of clementines at the Super Market. 
Then, after I paint the curvng snake-stripe,
I place the mesh over the snake-shape.
Paint again in a darker color,
and Voila! 
Texture! 

The woman who painted the fantastic dragon-face used the same mesh-technique to put a few hints of texture onto the face.

Alison

[Maria]

Alison, you should post a pic

[Alison]

Yeah ~  I thought of that Maria.  
I think I MIGHT have a picture of 2 brothers with matching Snakes somewhere amongst the TENS OF THOUSANDS (LITERALLY) of photos that I have here.  And the boys I'm thinking of - I painted them SEVERAL YEARS AGO.  Soooooo

the best I can do here in the middle of the night after my super busy days is
to post a scan of my mesh.  I hope that helps



alison

[Maria]

Okay, so you paint on the base color, put the mesh on top of it the same you would do a stencil and just dab over it.  I will definately gave it a try.

Another use for the mesh that I saw n another site was the lady put the mesh over a cup, secured it with a rubber band and just put her brushes in it (each brush in a different hole) made a really cool brush cup.

[Alison]

neat.    :-)

[Sherry]

I used to use beads in the bottom of a cup to keep my brushes upright, but they'd start to flop over a lot, especially when I had too many in there.  Now I use the "Icetube Tray", which is great, but bulky.  I think half the size would be better.  The mesh over a cup, I might like to try out... clever idea.