crow mask or face

Has anyone done a crow face or mask before. I have been looking for one for this halloween but haven't come across one.

Any suggestions would be great.

Thanks

I did this 'Crow' Face (from the Movie, The Crow) for a girl at our 4th of July Town Parade. I guess she only ever asks for this design. She flipped out and loved it. Thankfully the white went on really smooth and even and I hadn't had any caffeine yet! She was my first customer of the day! She paid me $20 bucks for it (most of that tip).

Paradise White and Wolfe Black...so simple, just 'clean' line work and even sponging technique. I was tempted to dust the white with some Mehron 'Diamond Dust' to make her sparkle in the sunlight...but she was definitely a 'Goth Girl' and didn't want any sparklies!

I hope you don't mean an actual 'Crow' as in the bird face! haha..... but oh well. This could be a Halloween face for sure!

I've done faces from the Crow movie as well.. though you could do a bird version of a crow as well, just have the paintee's eye be the crows eye and then draw in the crows body. Check out the Snaz contest for bird so see examples.

Actually I was meaning a crow as in the bird. lol

I was thinking of a mask type design to look like a crow (the bird)

I have an idea in my head...but no time to draw it tonight! But I'd do fat and long teardrops and a yellow beak on the nose.....work something 'curly' around the eyes....kinda exotic. Highlight the black 'feathers' with blue and white to give them that 'really dark blue/black' look to them.

I don't know if I'm picturing what Heather is picturing, but it sounds really pretty.

Crows are all black, with an almost iridescent blue quality.... but that's about it. So, you could play it up stylistically. Depending on what you had in mind, maybe you could to do a tribally-eye mask design in all black that has metallic blue highlights. Maybe research Native American diptions of crows? It's too late for me attemtpt something, but I have a couple of mental images.

that's a fun idea! I'll play around with it and post a picture if I can figure it out on here...

I'd recommend making the person's eyes the crow mask eyes, doing the beak yellow or black depending on crow/raven (with that scaly looking area to join the beak to the feathers) and maybe doing heavy feathers around the eye area and dispersing to a few ornamental/decorative feathers to frame the mask (like a mardi gras mask) with black as the main color and blues/greys/sparkle for the accents with very little white to give definition to the feathers?

Or maybe you could do a mask where the outstretched wings were the "mask" and the middle is the crow's body and beak?...

... not sure if I'm explaining this correctly.
I'm new to the realm of face painting but have painted for a long time on other types of canvas, so my head is bursting with ideas...

GREAT idea though!

The Crow is my favorite movie and I absolutely love the mask he models his face painting after. I haven't been able to find a replica, but the actual face painting is just as awesome. Thank you for posting your picture and tips on this one.

I'm doing a ton of Raven designs for an event... all based on arctic aboriginal motifs and legends. Stylized and tribal... should be pretty cool. Can't share them yet unfortunately. Once the committee decides on the final designs I can share the rejected ones...