Re: Display board pictures

[BekahCat]

I only have my sister to paint and she's getting a little fed up with it if I'm honest... I mentioned on Facebook that I needed some cute kids to paint for photographs and now everyone's offering me their children/ siblings/ friends! Try hinting towards it around people you know have kids or siblings...

As for the actual display board, I don't have one yet but I'm planning on using a large piece of fabric and attaching laminated photos with velcro, that way it can roll up nicely and be transportable and the photos are interchangable. Just an idea.

[ChaCha]

Great idea Ottergirl!

[vegas mom]

Not sure where to post this, but I was looking at walmart to get some prints developed of my face painting that Ive done. When I selected which photos, they offered an 8x10 collage that they design with those pics for about 2-3$. I thought it was really neat to see the designs all collaged together. Mind you I only had about 15 pics lol. The only thing I found frustrating was the fact I couldnt move any of the pics, but they did offer a rearrange button.

[shadnee]

How funny, I just came up with the same idea yesterday! I wanted something that would last longer than one event, that could be cleaned off easily, and that had a bit more weight to it than foam-core board. I got my poster frame at hobby lobby for only about $10.00 (it was regular $15.99, and I used a 40% coupon), and got 3 sheets of poster board (which was on sale), the background is bright pink, and the other two colors are the "skin" colors that I used for the faces (by the way, poster board is pretty good for painting). And I'm able to get 16 of the faces that I'm using. I'm not done yet, but here's what it looks like so far:

[skjfunny]

Check out the auto department in Walmart or any car store....find a black bendable windshield screen. They are used to keep the sun out of cars, bend into a shape the size of a dinner plate fits easy in your kit and just have the painted person stand in front of it for photo. Used one for years, like black backgrounds best myself.
If you contact an after school program and explain what you want they will often put you in a room by yourself and you can do the faces YOU need done and then I always send the school the developed photos for the families. The facilities I've used have been very thankful.

[MelodyFPL]

The way I get faces for my boards is to announce to all my friends/family on facebook/email/etc. that I am doing a "free face day." I have a list of the faces I need and let people pick from there. I take pictures as I go. I've also done this in a local park. When a random kid approaches me, I tell them to bring their mom over and have her sign a photo release form. The moms are usually happy to do it in exchange for the free face painting. In this way, my board has over 40 designs and no repeat faces. I also tell everyone that I will post the photos on my blog, and that drives a lot of traffic to my site. Hand out business cards at the same time and you may even get some gigs out of it.

This is exactly what I do and it works.

[MelodyFPL]

Oh and my menu board is a recycled 5 foot vinyl window shade, with a clear shower curtain on top, sewn down to make pockets. I can roll it up, photos and all. WAY easier than trying to carry a frame or other rigid sign.

[Griffinblue]

I got a ton of photos by offering to paint for a friends preschool class. Send the photo release/permission slip ahead of time, and bam! I had 2 classes of 18 kids! Did a few duplicates, but then was able to choose my best work;)

[barbb919]

i can take my banner off the frame to transport..but i usually leave it on..it fits in my suv just like it is...
it is only 3feet by 5 feet..holds 36 pictures and I can change them out when I want

[Gretchen]

I too would stay clear of glass. I've been tweaking my display for the past 16 yrs and am loving it! I also design retail displays as my "main" job so that has helped me find some unique products. For my boards I use snap frames...they are plastic extrusions that pop open and snap shut from the front to change out designs SUPER easy. Here's one site that sells them but you can Google it: http://www.triodisplay.com/catalog/plastic-wall-snap-frames-c-415_2683_2599.html
Then they have a clear plastic "lense" in the front as opposed to glass, and are lightweight and unbreakable. Inside the frame I use a sheet of white magnetic-receptive peel-&-stick vinyl (previously I used steel sheets), then I have turned all of my cheek art designs (hand drawn with markers and then scanned and saved digitally for backups) into magnets themselves using sticky-backed magnetic sheet. So my designs are mainly hand drawn and cut out of magnet sheet, but I do sprinkle in some nice color photos of some designs. That way you can show how they look in real life, and people can see how some designs compare to the drawings. It takes some time to turn the designs into magnets, but once that part is done it is SOOOO fast and easy to swap things out! I suppose the time factor is a toss-up though, compared to painting and photographing and editing and printing photos of every design though.

[vegas mom]

Shadnee. Did you design the blank faces that you painted on?

[shadnee]

Shadnee. Did you design the blank faces that you painted on?

No, I got them from a print-out that I found on here, I just blew them up a bit on cardstock (so I'd be able to trace them) and tweeked the faces a bit (the eyes were open, but I didn't want to mess with all that detail, I simplified the mouth, and removed the eyebrows).

[shadnee]

[PerfectlyPaintedFaces]

Wow you guys dug up my old thread LOL!

And shadnee, those are the templates I use. I vectorized them and I paint on them in Illustrator:

[vegas mom]

Thanks I am sooo computer illiterate,it took me 2 day to figure out how to upload pics here lol and they are still sideways...