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Love them all!!!

Awesome design, you are all so talented!!!

Creative fun faces, your designs are awesome!!!

I just love all the designs to be honest it's so creative!

Celtic Mermaids.. My 5 year old daughter was such an angel sitting for me!! Hope you like it

That is so cute! love it

Beeve that is great!!! What a great idea to integrate the celtic knot that way!!!love it!!

my second entry



step1: use a flat brush to create the 4 shamrock leaves with cameleon colourblock Shamrock
step2: use a small chisel brush to create a celticknot around the leaves in gold and add goldglitter rightaway
step3: use a smaller flat brush to create a rim around the leaves with red-range-yellow-green of the cameleon colourblock Rainbow wow
step4: with a round brush 3 make an outline in blakc around the knot
step5: add black teardrops and black outlines around the mask with that same round brush
step6: with a dotterwand add an edge to the mask
step7: with a linerbrush add a thin line in the rim
step8: with a shadowing brush add shadow to the innerparts of the leaves and around the mask with the drybrush technique
step9: with a dotterwand and a liner brush add white dots, hashmarks and starbursts and done!

Oooh...Celtic knot turned shamrock...super clever, Michelle!!

It looks amazing Michelle!!

Here is my entry
I used Wolfe Fx neon rainbow, dark and light green, gold, black and white

and here is the final image with added glitter

Very nice Laura!!!! i like how you used the rainbow great idea!!!and the pot of gold!!!

love the star effect and shadowing

Thank you!
I must say there is some tough competition here. All the designs are wonderful.
I haven't been on the forum much lately and thought: "What better way is there than to jump right back in by entering this months' challenge?"

That was a hell of a plunge redStar great job! I love how you placed the pot of gold in the middle of the forehead/rainbow rather than at the bottom.

I wish I had done the "steps" for this one I just did for my St. Patty's Day board for my gig I have, but didn't think of it till too late! But sharing anyway, even though it can't be in the contest!

Redstar...that's beautiful!

Here is my entry. It's been a while. I'm glad I happened to do a step by step of this.





Step 1: Use a green one stroke to add a petal to the forehead and dramatic swoops to the eyes and under the eyes.
Step 2: Use a gold or metallic split to add another tier of petals and some color at the corners of the eyes.
Step 3: Add one last tier of petals to the top of the forehead.
Step 4: Using dark green, paint in a Celtic knot and some long tear drops around the eyes.
Step 5: Use black and white to add outlines and highlights to the knot.
Step 6: Embellish as desired with black and white.

I used Tag leaf yellow one stroke, Tag old gold/copper split, Wolfe black and white, a 3/4" flat and a #3 round.

I'm on a roll! Here is my second entry:
Materials used: Wolfe FX gold, light and dark green, skin colour, orange, yellow, white and black; no 2 and 4 round brush, 1/4inch flat brush, no 0 round brush for details in face

step 1- sponge on gold on the forehead and metallic green on the eyelids
step 2- use a 1/4 inch flat brush to paint the hat in the middle of the forehead, then paint squiggely lines down from the hat to each cheekbone using a no 2 round brush and dark and light green. End the lines in a teardrop shape.
step 3- using a 1/4 inch flat brush paint 3 4-leaf clover over the squiggely lines to each side of the hat. Then add the band and buckle to the hat.
step 4- outline the hat and the clover with thin lines using a dark green and add the face with orange hair and a beard
step 5- add detail to the face and hair using a no 0 round brush
step 6- add highlights to the clover, the hat and hair and beard
step 7- add white and orange dots in the empty spaces between the clover
step 8- finish your design by adding glitter!!!
Taa-daaa you're done!
And here is the final result again

Wow redstar! love your leprechaun! All the entries are so good! and thankyou Paolasunglow for the nice comments, this is my first time sharing my facepainting, felt a bit nervous sharing with the wide world of facepainters! Lucky your all such a lovely bunch!

beevee wrote:Wow redstar! love your leprechaun! All the entries are so good! and thankyou Paolasunglow for the nice comments, this is my first time sharing my facepainting, felt a bit nervous sharing with the wide world of facepainters! Lucky your all such a lovely bunch!

Thank you! Your meermaids are pretty neat, too.
I know how you feel. Everytime we share our work, we make ourselves vulnerable but we also need to remember, that we are all at different points of our journey. Some have decades of experience, others just a couple of month, for those, that have not been doing it for too long, it can be intimidating to share their work, when clearly others are better. And for those that have been doing it for a while, it can be easy to forget how their work was when they started out. But in the end what matters is that we are proud of our progress. And there is always the possibility that what you think is not your best work, might for other people be the best work they have seen.

very pretty Melissa and Laura!

So much talent here ...

My thinking exactly!!! Well done to all!!!

WOW! All the entries are so amazing! Great job!!