a few new pictures posted today.
so many wonderful faces, legs, arms, backs,
so many wonderful people.

Here we go again. Posting photos I took with my phone.
I guestimated sort of squares to crop them in PhotoShop.
I hope they won't be too distorted here on the blog.

I've gotten real comfortable with this Face Painting thing.
I had no samples out for the Skeleton - I just flowed with the request.
And I'm not too confident yet with the Dragon,
but people liked what I did - I had been asked to do it again
Four Times during this gig!

I love this job.
I sure hope I remember to order more paint tomorrow.
(I'm too tired now.)

Well, it's not an exact science - I just guess the size to make the photos.
But they are looking better.

Egads. I didn't actually figure it out,
but I did figure out how to make the photos look better.
I wouldn't usually want to chop up the photos this way
(portraits are usually vertical format),
but I'll have to
in order to cut back on the distortion.

In order to post pictures on this blog,
I'll have to crop them to be slightly more horizontal than square
before bringing them here.

So now I'll try to repost the ones I put up yesterday.
Someday, I hope I find out how I used to be able to post vertical pictures.
But til then, you'll see horizontal pictures.

Dang! It happened again! The photos look stretched out when they're posted on this blog. I'll have to work on it again later. What could it beeee??? Can anybody write to me and explain it?

I got the photos printed!
I'm assuming that the leg photo will look better than the one that got all distorted when I tried to upload directly from my camera.

I'm also going to post some people that I enjoyed painting.
I'm so glad to have some photos - with Face Painting, the Artwork is all erased at the end of the day. But it's more interesting than painting on paper. Because the Artwork has different effects throughout the day as the person wearing it has different emotions and activities.

This was the first time I painted the cloud with the pink hearts.
And I made up the black swirls (that I called henna) on the spot.

The dragon was also made up on the spot - it took longer than most of the faces I paint - I guess it will go faster when I get used to it.
But I think the guests can tell if I'm having fun, and they respond to it.
It's fun for me when I try new things, take chances, match paintings to the actual people who show up. I like to play with the paint and I like to play with the people.

Fun is contagious, So I don't worry if a design takes a little longer.
As it is, people are usually amazed at how quickly I create the pictures.

I also got a few photos of Caricature balloons that I can put up.
Lol - I usually draw children on the balloons - figures that I'd finally get some photos when I'm drawing adults on the balloons. Que sera sera. People of all ages want to enjoy.

Ahah! The previous post - the one of the leg - that one came out all distorted.
Apparently I can't post directly from my camera.

So now I know. I hadn't realized that I had always been scanning in ready-printed pictures.

Voila! It worked!
The previous post was from a photograph that I scanned into the computer.
Now I'll try to post a picture of a nice leg that I painted on last weekend.
Picture taken directly from the camera - It hasn't yet been printed up at the store.

The last time I was here, the photos that I tried to post came out all distorted.
Scream? Only if I had time. Smile. I have been having so much fun. Parties, Street Work, Friends, Swimming, Yoga, Play.

But I want to try again. So I'm going to post a picture that made me laugh. The girl seemed all right, but in the photo, she looks like a mad dog.