I have questions

First of all hello all...Happy Holidays from Bayou Storytellers and Face Painting in Louisiana. Glad to be here...I have a couple questions for veteran Face Painters...

1) Do you create your own contracts? If so, give me tips please and if not where did you find yours?

2) I require a $50.00 dep. for larger parties. I have a party in February and the last couple of emails I have sent have not been answered. They have a couple weeks before the $50.00 deadline is due and it is the Holidays, but should I be concerned?

3) At what point do you bring in an additional face painter...do you go by number of kids? Amount of time for the booking?

Thank you...appreciated...

Welcome to the forum.

Helpful FYI - question posts like these will get a lot more attention in the Frequently Asked Questions, General Face Painting, or New To Face Painting area's of the forum.

To answer your questions

1. I modified my contract based on the one found on Gig Salad. I more or less used it like a template and changed it up a bit. Always good to have a place to start.

2. I require a deposit for ALL bookings. $50 for small, and $100+ for larger bookings. Never hold the date unless there is a deposit, because if something else comes along you are then SOL. 
Weeks? Wow. I give them 3 days to give me the deposit. You sort out the serious ones from the ones wasting your time pretty quickly that way. I hold the date for 3 days after the invoice is sent. No deposit after that I email them to ask if they still want to book, but the date then becomes free game until i get the deposit.

3. 1 artist jobs are anything that is 12-15 kids or less. Those can be done in an hour. If it's more then that and time is tight and they can't book another hour with 1 artist i recommend booking 2 artists for 1 hour (which is the same as booking 1 artist for 2 hours). If it's over 15 kids I tell them I cannot guarantee everyone gets a turn unless the book another hour or an additional artist.

I've done public events by my self, but the high volume ones it's always better to have a partner. There is less pressure on you, you can paint more faces, shorter lines for the public, and more money in your pocket.

Thank you so much for your input...much appreciated!

Dear Bayou Face Paint:
Welcome to the Forum!
Forest_Fairy is right on point regarding her answers to some of your queries. F_F is in the field, so she has some pretty down-to-earth, simple and deadly accurate advice for whatever is ailing you!
I love reading F_F's responses!
Come over and join us in a game of Face Paint Tag in the thread Tag! You Are It!
Post and Share your work to a kind and warm, non-judgemental audience in the thread "Show and Tell". If you WOULD like your work critiqued.... you have to ASK for it.
Happy Painting!

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