Living Canvas -- A Painter's Convention Sept. 21

I've had a couple of emails asking for more details about my sessions at Living Canvas next month in San Jose. Since I am an a detail person I actually do plan these things well ahead of time!

Here are descriptions of what my classes will cover for those who are interested (sorry if you get this message more than once if you are on multiple groups!):

Dinosaurs and Dragons - real designs for real gigs... stuff I do on the job, fast, easy and effective.

This will be a demonstration class but feel free to bring your kits and paint along! These are all designs I paint on real face painting jobs: Side Dino, Side Dragon, Full Face Chinese Dragon, Brow Dragon, Serpent, Arm Dragon, Arm Dino, T-Rex, Over the Nose, Dino Mask…

Not ANOTHER #*$&^%* Butterfly?!! How to amuse yourself painting 276 pink and purple butterflies in a row.
This is going to be a fun session! I’ll need volunteers to role play randomly assigned parts and then we can all get into character! I’ll be the hard working face painter and everyone else the nasty little kids with no imagination – everyone wants a butterfly!

Hecklers welcome but you’d better be able to take it as well as give it!

As well as being fun for all I’m going to cover as many ways to paint a butterfly as humanly possible – I’ll make use of any method I can, take suggestions from the spectators and even from the “kid” who is being painted… maybe.

After this everyone should be able to go home and have a little fun themselves at the next “nothing but butterflies” birthday party they are hired for!

Face Painting for Theatre - applying your skills to theatrical work, editorial and competition design. Designing characters and how products work on stage.

For this session I will explain the process I go through in meeting with the director/client and getting their instructions, creating a design, charting it, making notes, testing, and approval from the director/client.

There are considerations when designing for these purposes and you need to meet the requirements of each individual job. I hope to bring examples from productions I have worked on (luggage space permitting!)

I'm planning to review how I work to come up with this type of design fairly quickly and then do some class exercises where we will have actual characters from plays or themes and "inspirational" images to use to come up with concepts and specific ideas and then, get everyone to rough out some sketches as a base for building on their ideas. Handouts will be provided for this.

Hope this answers a few questions! If you have any more feel free to ask! I'm looking forward to the trip and meeting lots of new people!

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