Face painting can include elaborate designs or simple patterns.
Face painting involves using special paints to draw pictures on people's faces. It is often used on children during special events, or as part of costumes--particularly for Halloween. Face painting is also used on adults at costume parties or during theater productions. Designs can can range from a tiny heart on the cheek to elaborate artwork that uses the whole face as a canvas. Such designs often involve multiple colors and glitter. This tutorial will explain paint a child's face to resemble a tigers. This design is commonly used for Halloween and suits both boys and girls.
Instructions
1. Wash your child's face and make sure you have your supplies handy. Use black, white, yellow and orange paint to do a traditional tiger, but remember--you're only limited by your imagination. Have your child put on her costume before her face is painted, so none of the paint rubs off afterward.
2. Squeeze some white paint onto a plastic tray or plate. Paint a white area across the child's upper lip and just below the lower lip using a sponge.
3. Dampen another sponge and use the yellow paint to cover your child's face, excepting the forehead, eyebrows and white areas around the lips. Take care not to paint too close to your child's eyes.
4. Dab orange paint on a clean sponge and color the forehead and around the edge of the face just before the hairline. Blend the yellow and orange paint together where it meets on the child's face so there aren't any harsh lines.
5. Use a thick, soft, brush to paint white eyebrows with at least three prongs branching out above them. Start the bottom of the painted eyebrow below the child's actual eyebrow. Paint it on the top of the nose, curving up and around the natural eyebrow. Extend the prongs from the top curve. Repeat on the other eyebrow, making both look as similar as possible.
6. Add whiskers to the upper and lower lips using white paint by extending prongs or lines from the white section you blocked out around the mouth. Paint four or five prongs that branch out on either side. The lower lip can include whiskers that are painted on like half a sun with a round half circle and spiky rays pointing down.
Add some thick lines to the cheeks while you have white paint on your brush: two on either side. These will be tiger stripes.
7. Paint the nostrils black using a finer brush. Follow the natural line of the nostrils and extend the paint out onto the outer edges. Outline the white areas around the mouth and the eyebrows with a fine brush and black paint to make them stand out.
Using the same brush, paint the lips black and make a black triangle above the upper lip. Start the triangle at the corners of the mouth and extend upward, peaking just below the nose.
Use the fine brush and black paint to add dots to the white whisker area. This should be a cluster of eight to 10 dots below each nostril and extending out on either side of the lips.
Add a black stripe between each of the white stripes on the child's cheeks to add more tiger stripes.
8. Sprinkle gold glitter onto the face for the final touch.
