Since Easter is coming up quickly, I figured I would check YouTube for ideas…
Easter Bunny Face Painting Tutorial
By Arty Face and Body Painting
How To Facepaint a Bunny in 3 Easy Steps
By Rubie’s Costume Company
Easter Bunny Face Painting Tutorial
By Lisa Joy Young
Maybe a better title for this post would be, “How NOT to say, ‘No!'”. I have seen a lot of entertainers post to Facebook and other social media websites their frustration over customers who ask them to volunteer their services for an event or offer a discount from their normal prices. Usually, these posts are followed by various ways they could respond to the request. More often that not, I find the possible responses to be a poor choice. Although you may not want to accept their request, you should NOT use the contact as a way to slam the door in their face. People have a way of remembering the bad taste their contact with you left more than a simple, No. Show respect to your customers.
You may think you are being funny, but your potential customer may see it differently. It is NOT rude for someone to ask a business to donate a product or service to their event. Why should you be rude in your response? Many businesses are more than happy to donate to a good cause. It is a way to give back to the community and get some positive publicity. Local businesses will donate money to have their name listed at school events like a band performance or play. They will put their name on the back of a team jersey so the kids can have nice uniforms. They will donate food and water to marathons. They will donate prizes for auctions. But, heaven forbid they try to contact a balloon twister or face painter and invite them to the event. Entertainers with an attitude and who lack good judgement will often insult the caller for having the nerve to ask them to do an event for free or “exposure.”
Balloon Twister at a Festival
An important factor for me when considering offering a discount or donating my services is the location of the event. Is the event in an area close to my home and a place that I want to do more events? Most of the people at the event will likely be local to that area. They are the people I will reach and be giving my business card. If the event is 100 miles away, that means more people 100 miles away will call to see if I can come to their events. I would much rather do events close to home and it means getting more events close to home.
Another thing I try to find out is if they have hired other entertainers to be at their event. If they have hired a band, DJ, magician, etc. to attend their event, I know they have an entertainment budget. I don’t want to work for free when other entertainers are being paid, but if nobody is being paid, I am open to donating my services.
If they can’t pay me, it doesn’t always mean that I can’t get paid by someone… Festivals often have food vendors and other people selling stuff. If the organization doesn’t have the funds to pay for the face painter, maybe face painting can be offered for a fee. Can I put out a tip jar to help pay for my time and materials? If I am donating $500 worth of face painting time to their event, would they list me as an official event sponsor along side the other organizations they thank on their website, advertising, and t-shirts?
Whatever happens, at the end of the conversation, if I decide to do their event or not, I try my best to be polite during the entire conversation. I want to end on a positive note and leave the door open for their calling me again in the future. That is much better than finding out later they told all of their friends what a jerk I had been.
Ruby Red Paint Inc. shared this video on their Facebook page. I thought it was worth sharing.
Disney Parody explanation of Copyright Law and Fair Use
Synopsis:
Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University provides this humorous, yet informative, review of copyright principles delivered through the words of the very folks we can thank for nearly endless copyright terms.
A lot of face painters and balloon twisters are asked by kids to created designs based on popular cartoon characters, movie stars, or superheros. Questions often come up if this violates the copyrights and if someone could be sued. My usual answer is that painting a kid’s face or making a balloon that is intended to resemble a character is fine, but don’t try to use the character’s name on your website or ads. For example, don’t advertise that you can create all of the kid’s favorite Disney characters. The Disney name is protected and they can take legal action.
Lisa Joy Young offers tips, tricks, and techniques for painting children under 3 years old. Last three minutes includes tips for removing the paint from the kids faces.
Peter getting his face painted like a pirate at Disney
This is a good looking pirate design. I like the skull and cross bone design on the bandana.
ChiTwist Chicago Balloon Twisting shows how to make Mr. Peabody balloon animal.
Illusion Magazine Issue 25 – Spring 2014 Video Preview
Illusion Magazine issue 25 – Spring 2014 with the fabulous new cover by Jody Rife
Sophia Leadill Taylor has written a brilliant guide for you about using stencils and how they have revolutionised the way that we paint, while Tal Peleg will blow you away with her eye designs.We’re also seeing lots more cartoon-style designs emerging and our regular columnist Margi Kanter probably has a lot to do with that. And one-stroke is still gaining popularity so we’ve included lots of new products for you on the review page.
Take cover artist Jody Rife, who’s the Queen of the Quirgles, who paints the quirkiest creatures you’ll ever meet and the most unique face painting concept. Read about her new book, Quirgles the must-have book of the year.
We have 3 fabulous artists, Arjhay, Katja Kyd and Belinda Wurmitzer who have created fun designs especially to inspire the working face painter.
Of course there are also your regular favourites too including product reviews, galleries and an incredible 18 step-by-steps for you to try.
JestPaint shares their review of the new line of Ruby Red Face Paints. These are being marketed by Gary Cole, formerly the main distributor of Snazaroo face paints in the US.
This is our first review of Ruby Red Face Paints. In general we like the paint, as far as the rubbing off issue goes the manufacturer has suggested a few tricks to make the paint more resistant to touch (leaving the containers open for a day before using it, applying a thinner layer, sponging vs brushing for wide areas), and has said that they will be working on doing some changes to the formula to further improve it. This would be a product that we would use since not all colors are easy to smear, and the opacity and boldness of most colors are great.
This is a creative short video posted by Steven Paananen·
After 4 wonderfully long balloon filled days, 75 international artists with 55000 balloons complete the entire story of Jack and the Beanstock! It was truly wonderful to be part of the international team lead by Larry Moss and Kelly Cheatle of Airigami.
Can you find a Cat, a lady bug, a worm, a dragonfly, and a cardinal?
More photos from the experience can be found here: http://www.airigami.com/
Additional coverage of the event….
Time lapse
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