First two gigs Booked! YAY and YIKES! [pic heavy]

Yeah. I just got my business license last week and I have two bookings. One for two hours at a birthday party. And a restaurant PPF deal for a local irish restaurant for four hours. Both are on St.Patrick's Day (this saturday)! The restaurant owner said he's gonna just hook me up with a section in his restaurant, I can put out a tip jar, and he's gonna feed me. He says that his customers will tip really well. I'm soo excited but at the same time a bit FREAKED!

Hopefully all goes well.

Still have that, happy and scared at the same time!
Yay for your first gigs!

YAY, Mika! You'll do great. Congrats and Have Fun!

That's awesome Mika! Let's see those St. Patty's day designs!

You're gonna do great .

Stacia wrote:That's awesome Mika! Let's see those St. Patty's day designs!

You're gonna do great .

I'll post the ones that I have. A couple I saw somewhere on the forum and thought I'd try them. Please post if you guys have any.

I have a few more but I have to put the black background on them. I could do with some more designs for boys and men.
I'm working on a simple celtic triangle knot. So much running through my mind.

Those look great!

You need a green beer, too!

Mika,
how exciting, good luck!
Check this snazaroo contest page :
http://www.snazaroo.us/09/9stpatricks.htm

Definitely after these two gigs I'll have samples where it's not just my son that's the model.

Doe wrote:Those look great!

You need a green beer, too!

Thanx.

katerra77 wrote:Mika,
how exciting, good luck!
Check this snazaroo contest page :
http://www.snazaroo.us/09/9stpatricks.htm

Thank you so much for that link! I love the I-R- cloversign -S-H design!

nice designs - the leprechaun is very cute

Congratulations! Have fun!!!

helena wrote:nice designs - the leprechaun is very cute

Congratulations! Have fun!!!

Thanx. I totally can't take credit for the full face clover and the leprechaun. I think I saw those on another st.patrick's day thread!

New video from Heather:
http://www.fabablog.com/2012/03/12/lucky-lady-a-st-pattys-face-painting-tutorial/

Fantastic! It's wonderful that you have taken the step to make a business out of it, quite often you will get at least one or two gigs off of most of the bookings you get.

Hope its all good from here in.

Totally off the subject, how do you get your name over the top of the photo without it having a background behind it?

I used gimp for all of my pictures. I just clicked the text tool clicked where I wanted my text and typed it in. thanx for your support! : flower:

Thanks!
I cant say I've ever heard of that (gimp)!
Is it a professional product or something you can download off the net?

Beeja wrote:Thanks!
I cant say I've ever heard of that (gimp)!
Is it a professional product or something you can download off the net?

It's almost identical to photoshop but it's free! You can download it for free online.

http://www.gimp.org/

I've only been using it for a couple months and i got the hang of it already. There's lots of tutorials on YouTube that'll help you out to. I use it to make advertisement flyers and to darken around my designs like the pictures above.

I'm so nervous! Gosh I want it to be over. EEEP. *woosah*

Thanks! re the gimp

Once you get started your nerves will go away!

Is the avatar your little one? Such a cutie!

Beeja wrote:Thanks! re the gimp

Once you get started your nerves will go away!

Is the avatar your little one? Such a cutie!

that's my one and only cutie pie.