Super fast face paint designs

Hey there,
I could use some help in finding some more super fast designs for kids faces.
There is one place where I only get 1,5 hour, but there will be 40 kids walking around. I already said that I am not going to make that (since they do want real facepainting, and not very small simple things) but they cannot or do not want to hire me for more time.
I want to make as much kids as possible happy with something, so are there any good idea`s about nice designs that are super fast? Like two minutes/three minutes.

The best way is to only offer designs that you are VERY familiar with and can paint quickly. Speed is just something that comes from practice. Almost any face can be a fast face if you have painted it enough times to be able to do it without even thinking.
It often really just comes down to painting what you know and are comfortable with. I can paint ANY face on my festival board in under 3 minutes easily. I can even cut that in half if I am really swamped and need to amp things up a notch.

RAINBOW CAKES!!!! they make life so much easier :


Also the smaller cakes (video up on silly farm):


This is from silly Farm's actual dvd i think its from "follow the rainbow" that uses smaller cakes for the snake and leaves:


1/2 spiderman:


Dolphin quicky:


Brontosaurus:


Kitty:


A few quickies:

there's a puppy, vampire, mask, and dragon in there

A Phoenix/bird:

I am strictly a beginner, but my daughter's face in my avatar (which I consider to be a base design with no details) took me about 4 minutes. If you are familiar with face painting I am sure you can cut that time by half!

I did this design (found it somewhere on the net) because I was also trying to find ideas that were quick enough for me to do if in a time crunch that still looked decent. Usually a face takes me about *cough* 8-10 minutes *cough*. I figure I'll get better with experience.

Also, here is another super easy face to do. It is the door mouse. It came out of either the Snaz book or the Usbourne book:

I did a version of this sheet at an event last night. I might modify a few things yet, but it can give you some ideas hopefully.

The angel took a little longer than I liked. And The blue mask too. So I might alter those into something else.


The rainbow arm was by far the most popular.



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Wow, thanks! You al remind me of how many designs there are that are ok for two/three minute work. This is going to work out fine. I think I was just a bit nervous, working really fast is not my strongest point.

Some designs you can get away with no base at all - like a bunny or a cat, or a spotty dog. Pirates are heaps quick too.
You might also consider limiting yourself to say 6-8 simple designs.
Like a spidy mask a simple tiger, batman and a monster mask or pirate.
And for the girls - rainbow with hearts or flowers, princess crown, butterfly and a fairy or mermaid design. By the end of the gig you will have mastered those and will be able to add to your "quick" faces list.
Good Luck and remember you can't keep everyone happy all the time!

Tash

if you go to my web site
www.artybrushstrokes.com look in the gallery section
most of my princess faces are 2 min or less.

using the arty brush cakes...mini rainbow cakes will really speed up your line
also...when i do an event like yours...i make up a board of 8 designs they can chose from...also helps speed thing up.

good luck!
rebecca

These are all super-duper fast. Of course like anything you have to practice them or make a version that works for you and you remember on the fly. I like the top one, it's really popular and fast...it uses a home made rainbow palette .5inx.5in then quick stars with white.

This face painting job was on last friday, and it went 'ok'. I painted about 16 children in the end, which for me is ok. Its about 5 minutes per child but also some chatting with parents, water cleaning moments, re-painting a child that had fallen on his knees and had a messed up face (from crying I mean).
So I guess it was ok. Painting all of the 45 kids is impossible for me at the moment. Its two minutes per child, but then I do not count all the other things that happen next to painting. Like saying some things, cleaning some brushes/water, answering a question of a parent, keeping the kids in line from creating a big and bumby party ( because its hard to wait). Things like this also take time, so it was less then two.. unrealistic I think.
They should hire two people or someone that does airbrush tattoo`s or such things.

they where happy by the way, no complaints at all about the number of kids.

if someone asked me to paint 40 kids in one and a half hours, I immediately would say that it would be near impossible...
as you say...all the things in between take time too...and you're not a robot...I painted about 20 kids in 2 hours...but not very quick designs though...everyone was happy...had no more than 5 kids in the row...

I don't think I could rubber stamp 45 kids in 1 hour. I would have told the client it was impossible & not a good idea to only paint 1/2 the kids. I'm glad they were happy w/ it, but I wouldn't have been
I hate unhappy kids when it's the adults fault.