Painted Personalities Blog

I’ll be out in Crestline Saturday morning at the Norma Livingston Ovarian Cancer Foundation Motherwalk 2008 painting. I’ll be there from 8:00 AM until the race is done. I’ll be painting faces and painting glitter tattoos for cash. In addition to the face painting and glitter tattoos, I’ll have Mike out with the airbrush painting airbrush tattoos too! Part of what we make will go directly to the foundation to help fund research on ovarian cancer.
The color for ovarian cancer awareness is teal. I have teal paint, teal glitter, and teal airbrush tattoo ink!

One of my grandmothers passed away from ovarian cancer in 1999. I have anecdotal stories that other aunts and great aunts may have also died from this. Unfortunately information about their passing away is over 40 years old, and people didn’t talk about that kind of cancer. So I know that due to family, I may be at risk for ovarian cancer. Please come out, see us, participate, and help raise some money for ovarian cancer research!

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.

Welcome to 2008 and the people and places to paint! We look forward to seeing you at the festivals and parties this upcoming year.

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!

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!

After I made the previous festival posting, I confirmed another date for a festival.

I’ll be at the Birmingham Farmers Market, for their Friends and Family Festival, this Saturday, August 25th, from 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM. The Farmers Market is located at 344 Finley Avenue West, Birmingham, AL, 35204. I’ll be there with face paints, temporary tattoos, henna, and the airbrush temporary tattoos. Come out and see us, and get something good to eat!

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.

Come out and see us at Dog Daze in Trussville, on August 4th. I’ll be painting faces, and doing temporary tattoos for the attendees at the Church of the Holy Cross booth. I’ll be there from 9:00 AM until 4:00 PM painting. It’ll be hot, but that doesn’t matter, I’ll still be there. I’ve got some new designs to play with and the day will be lots of fun.

I’ll be out at the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum on Saturday an Sunday July 21 and 22 from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM. The Porsche 250 is this weekend! I’ll be offering face painting, henna, and temporary tattoos for folks there. If you come out to the race, stop in and say hello to me. Mike and I will be down in the atrium, at the food court.

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!

I received several compliments recently. I’m going to share an email that came the other day. The subject of the email was “compliments from a well known critic”
“Last year my daughter and I attended the Southern Women’s show in Birmingham.While we were there my daughter had her face painted by Elaine with Painted Personalities. Elaine painted a beautiful cascade of purple flowers that ran along the side of her face. It was breathtaking ! This same day the auditions for American Idol were going on next door at the Sheraton. As we were leaving, Simon Cowell was getting out of his limo. He saw Abbys face and stopped, pointed and said ” I like your face” . Good Job Elaine — you got Simons approval !” from Sandi.

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.