Newbie from Australia

Hi all!

I'm really new to face painting - just bought my first face paints a couple weeks ago. Before that I've not painted anything at all, and am generally hopeless at painting. ...But I'm loving the colours, and am finding it hard to restrain myself from overinvesting in paints!!

I have NO grand aspirations to paint professionally one day or anything like that - this is just a hobby for me. My other hobby is cake decorating, and I have always wanted to be able to paint so I could paint directly onto cakes in food colouring. So would love to pick up some basic painting skills. (With cakes I mostly sculpt figurines for decoration)

Anyway...will see if I have a couple pics of my very first attempts at face painting to show you - be warned though: they won't be great - I'm brand new at this and brand new at painting anything at all!

Cheers!
~Coral

Okay, so a few pics of my very first attempts:













And one pic of my other hobby, just for interest sake:

For some reason my first tiger there turned out looking like a really tired, OLD tiger...not sure if that's just because it's on me(!), or quite where I went wrong with it-? (and I KNOW the nose is terrible!... )

Welcome! I like your tiger

Welcome to our world! You paint really well IMO.

Nice work. I can see why you're enjoying it so much, you're good at it! The cake is fabulous too. Obviously you aren't bad at painting afterall. What one-stroke are you using for that blue butterfly? The red/purple looks like TAG berry, is that right?
Welcome

welcome....from holland

Welcome. Where in Australia are you from? Love your pics BTW.

WOW did you say your hopeless at painting you must be kidding from all your pic that you have posted they all look awesome, I LOVE the pink and purple butterfly design by the way welcome to the forum you will love it everyone is nice and helpful if you need help

JBM wrote:Welcome. Where in Australia are you from? Love your pics BTW.

I'm in TAS

Fun2Play wrote:Nice work. I can see why you're enjoying it so much, you're good at it! The cake is fabulous too. Obviously you aren't bad at painting afterall. What one-stroke are you using for that blue butterfly? The red/purple looks like TAG berry, is that right?
Welcome

The blue butterfly(arm) was painted with TAG Dolphin. And you're right...the pink/red/purple butterfly was TAG berry. I have to say I'm loving the one strokes and split cakes...I'm like a kid in a candy store at the moment - I want one of everything!! (...and I have NO self control - not a good combo for my bank balance! )

Thanks all for your lovely comments & welcome! It's nice to have somewhere I can share my beginner face painting pics - am really glad I stumbled across this forum. I had started putting some pics of my FP attempts on my Facebook page, but then deleted them all after some brutally honest comments from a family member. I figured I'd just have to keep my FP efforts to myself after that (like a dirty little secret, haha). So it's nice to have somewhere like this where there are other beginners too, and where people generally get that these things take practice, and that hey, you have to start somewhere!

Welcome!

Coral3 wrote:Thanks all for your lovely comments & welcome! It's nice to have somewhere I can share my beginner face painting pics - am really glad I stumbled across this forum. I had started putting some pics of my FP attempts on my Facebook page, but then deleted them all after some brutally honest comments from a family member. I figured I'd just have to keep my FP efforts to myself after that (like a dirty little secret, haha). So it's nice to have somewhere like this where there are other beginners too, and where people generally get that these things take practice, and that hey, you have to start somewhere!

Don't know what the "brutally honest" family member said but they obviously have no clue. Your are a natural with it girl! Keep up the practice and beware the addictive power of the paint!