Painted Personalities will be at the Cajun Steamer on Mardi Gras 2008 for the Parade and Party! Cajun Steamer is in the Patton Creek Shopping Center at 180 Main Street. The parade will be at 6:00 through the streets and around the shopping center. We’ll be there painting faces and offering masks that won’t get lost! Come out and see us there On Tuesday February 5th.
I’ll be painting faces at the Rocky Horror Masquerade at the Alabama Theater on October 26, 2007. If you need to become a Transylvanian, or just want something cool for the costume contest, let me know and I’ll make you up for it!
I just got this confirmed. I’ll be out tomorrow at the !Bravo! Birmingham Arts Festival in Caldwell Park on Highland Avenue. The festival runs from 11:00 AM until 5:00 PM. There’s going to be lots of things there to do, so be sure to come on out and have a great time!
The film that I help out with SFX makeup at the beginning of the year, Collection, had its premiere at the Sidewalk Film Festival. It took place Saturday night at the Alabama Power building on 18th Street North. Clint Till, the director, was there along with the principal actors, the other (real) makeup artist, and assorted family members. I was pleased withteh look of the film. It looked like what I had envisioned from reading the script and seeing several of the parts being filmed, so that was good. Friends of mine saw the online trailer, but weren’t able to make the showing Saturday night. If Clint is able to have a another showing in town, I’ll publicize it here so folks who want to see it can see it. If you are interested in seeing the trailer, you can see it and several of the making of previews on Par Entertainment’s myspace page.
Art in the Parking Lot in the Crestwood Shopping Center was postponed. The person who was organizing it had moved while she was trying to put it together, so she decided to to postpone the event until she had the time to organize it right.
The Magic City Blues Society is holding their 14th annual Blues Fest September 2nd. We’ll be there from open at Noon until 8:00 PM with face painting, henna, and temporary tattoos! The airbrush tattoos will be there as well. Its going to be a great day, with wonderful music. The music schedule is on the Blues Fest website and the lineup is superb. Come on out!
The Alabama Butterbean Festival is tomorrow! We’ll be in Pinson bright and early, with the festival there from 9:00 AM until 4:00 PM. There’s a BBQ competition, as well as an Elvis impersonator competition. And I have new designs to play with. Its going to be a fun day. Come say hello!
There are a number of upcoming festival in the area that Painted Personalities will be painting at.
The Alabama Butterbean Festival is September 1st in Pinson, AL. The festival runs from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM.
The Magic City Blues Society will hold their annual Blues Fest September 2nd at Sloss Furnace in Birmingham, AL. This festival will open the gates at 11:00 AM and run through 8:00 PM.
Art in the Parking Lot at Crestwood Shopping Center on September 8th.
The Barber Vintage Festival at the Barber Motorsports Park is October 20th & 21st. I’ll be inside the museum that weekend, so if you have the opportunity, come in! If nothing else, stop by the museum and see all 5 floors of motorcycles that they have on display there.
I’ll be painting faces, applying henna, and painting temporary tattoos at all three festivals. We’re also going to be doing airbrush temporary tattoos at the Blues Fest and the Art in the Parking Lot.
If you are looking at having Painted Personalities be an attraction at your birthday party, please call early! I’m booking dates several months in advance for birthday parties, and festivals are also taking time slots. So call and reserve your times today.
We’re going to be painting at 2 different events this Saturday. Both are open to the public, so come out and see us at either one.
The first event is a church carnival at Old St Paul Missionary Baptist Church in Bessemer. It is from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM. We’ll be offering face painting and hand painted temporary tattoos. There will be some picture taking with this carnival, and the church has also gotten some moonwalks for the kids to play in.
The next event is the the BBQ for the new rector at Church of the Holy Cross, Trussville. It starts at 4:00 PM, and goes until. I’ll be debuting the airbrush temporary tattoos. I’ve cut a custom stencil of the church’s cross to use on folks there, in addtion to the other tattoos stencils I have. In addtion to the face painting and temporary tattoos, there is also at least one moon walk scheduled to be set up. There’ll be lots of smoked BBQ, and the Band Drive South is going to play.
Rain or shine, it’ll be great!
And it was wonderful as usual. There were so many very helpful instructors and classes that choosing which one to attend in a given time period was difficult. The competitions were good,and the competitors were great! I competed at the masters level against people from around the world. I didn’t place in any of my specific competitions, but the experience was very worthwhile.Now the surprise I was talking about in the previous post was my taking part in the painted fashion show on Sunday morning. At the Fete in Louisiana, I participated in group body painting a model in a pyjama set. For all the painters to be very novice body painters and having never painted clothing before, we did a good job! We did a good job, and it was a credit to all three of us painting, as well as the model. Marcela Murad, who organizes the FABAI convention, was there at the Fete. She knew that I already had sent in my registration for FABAI, and she asked me to consider participating in the fashion show she was planning for Sunday morning in Orlando. I was completely astonished and pleased to be asked to participate.
So when I contacted Marcela about it in the weeks before convention, and she was willing to include me in the show on Sunday morning, I was over the moon. I told Marcela that I’d paint a model in motorcycle racing leathers. When I got to convention, I asked for some help, since I did know that I wouldn’t be able to finish it all by myself. I asked Bethany from Georgia to help me, since I know she does have experience body painting. I met my model, Kaz, Saturday night, and Bethany and I painted him early Sunday morning. Here’s the finished painting: 
More pictures from the fashion show:
It was a blast, a rush, and insane to do. Bethany and I walked into the room to paint and we looked at each other and asked what we were doing in the same room as the instructors? But we were pleased with how Kaz turned out and his reception at the show!
For the closing banquet, I dressed up as a faerie, but I didn’t end up getting a picture on my camera. Here’s a picture of Bethany at the closing banquet, she painted her face after she ended up painting the drumnmers who were entertaining at dinner.
My annual continuing education for this business is just a few days away! The FABAI Convention in Orlando is Thursday through Sunday, with a pre-convention class on Wednesday. I’m going to be taking a class with Emma Cammack on Wednesday. She’s a painter from the UK, who does marvelous work in may different formats. I saw a good bit of her work in the first issue of the new Illusions magazine, and was quite impressed.
Then the convention itself starts on Thursday! Demos and a party on Thursday, then classes and jam sessions on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday! There’s a closing banquet on Sunday night that is a fantastic party, and the creativity of everyone there feeds on itself and jumps out at the banquet. Not to mention the vendors of all the different products who are showing and selling new stuff and familiar items.
This will be my 5th convention. It is so worth it! I’m looking forward to seeing the friends that I only see there, and meeting new friends. The folks who are on my email lists who are able to make it are so good to see in person. And the ladies in charge of it all have lots of surprises planned! Marcela has asked me to help with one, and I’m so tickled to be able to do it. I’ll post some pictures from convention afterwards!
Hey y’all. Sorry I’ve been MIA lately. But I painted today in Mountain Brook, at the Norma Livingston Ovarian Cancer Foundation’s Motherwalk. It is one of the Foundation’s fund raisers, and this was the fourth year of the event. Registration for the walk started at 8:00 AM and the walk started at 9:00 AM. I painted some face, did some teal glitter tattoos, and even did a henna sunflower. It was a very good day!
The season is starting to pick up again. I painted at the Women of Helen in Motion’s Easter Egg Hunt first thing Saturday morning with Tara. Tara does makeup, and did the makeup for Clint’s movie. That’s how I met her. She is interested in learning face painting and was great to have join me there. She is going to be a very good face painter. She already has experience with other painting mediums.
Then later Saturday afternoon I had a Pirate birthday party to paint at. I had painted at his birthday party last year and when his Mom was showing him pictures from last year, he said that he really liked his party last year and wanted me to come back again! He had a pirate party. I took my pirate outfit and changed into it before the party. I have boots, a wonderful hat, a pirate shirt and vest/pseudo doublet. I found some great scarves with skulls and crossbones, which make fantastic head scarves for the pirate costume. Of course I painted the birthday boy as a pirate, complete with his own scarf, patch, handlebar moustache, beard stubble, and sword cut. There were several other pirate hands that I painted as well, along with princesses, a puppy, and two hello kitties! It was a very fun party for everyone!
Saturday April 7th we’ll be painting at the Birmingham Country Club’s Easter Egg Hunt! We may also be painting elsewhere at other egg hunts, it will depend on who contacts us before the weekend!
Well, I’ve downloaded some pictures from last weekend. The first picture is a mask that I painted in Mark Reid’s class. I was pleased with how it turned out. the colors worked and the flow of the design works. Thanks Mark for your help!
The next picture is of painting in the park on Friday afternoon in Lafayette. Lafayette has a concert in the park downtown on Fridays in March, April and May. The band playing was L’Angelus and we’ve seen them before in Birmingham at City Stages last year. We were warned that Lafayette has a very strict law against busking, so we were not to paint or henna anyone who wasn’t a part of our group. Fortunately, several people were able to talk to the folks from the city who organize the concerts and we got permission to paint the public for free.The organizers even got us a table to use. So the folks who had actually brought their kits were very kind and shared them with the rest of us. I set out my glitter gels for use by folks and we got to painting.
As you can tell, it was pretty nuts working there at the park, but it was lots of fun!
We’re back in Birmingham! The Fete was wonderful. We drove down to Lafayette Louisiana Wednesday after we got off work. We got into the hotel at 1:30AM. We unpacked and crashed for the night.
Thursday morning came very early, since we wanted to get breakfast at the hotel before it closed. And then into the room space to meet Susie for the first time and get registered. Susie, Christina, Missy, Rebecca, Lisa, Cat, Pam, Arla and several other painters were there. Other folks were coming in. After I got the packet with Mike’s and my name tags, I got my paints and came back down. Rebecca demonstrated blending. Then Christina demonstrated several neat full faced designs of horses and cows. Lunch was wonderful home made red beans and rice. After lunch Mark Reid had a class on masks.
More later with pictures!