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Tash: LOVE LOVE LOVE the halloween fleshy butterfly w/blood! awesome!

@ PandoraNoir: The skeleton butterfly is great!!!

@ ChangingFaceDesigns: The turkeys are also great!!!

So many great butterfly entries!!! WOW!!!

Oh my goodness, voting is going to be so hard!

it's going to be nearly impossible!

LisaJoyYoung wrote:Dia de los Muertos Sugar Skull Butterfly

So loving the sugar skull masks you do Lisa! So inspiring.

I have a silly one... a new year butterfly- made from champagne glasses... the whole vision was better in my mind...
oh well- I tried & learned- that's all I wanted. Everone's submission is sooo amazing- great job everybody!!!!!
(I spelled champagne wrong-whoops!)

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I need to do mine tomorrow if there is still time.

too cute

Mardi Gras Butterfly

Tools used:
Sponge
Size 2 round brush
Size 0 round brush

Paints Used
Fardel Liquid Facepaint, Metallic Green/Gold
DFX Metallic Yellow, Blue and Green
Snaz Turquoise
TAG black and white
Gold Glitter

Steps:
1. Outline the eye and the edge of the butterfly in the Fardel Metallic Green/Gold.
2. Fill in just under and above the eyelashes with the fardel Metallic Green/Gold,
3. Using a sponge blend the green out to fill out the wing
4. Using the size 2 round brush paint the lines down the center of the feather, 3 on the top wing and 2 on the bottom, all heading toward the inside corner of the eye.
4. At the tip of each line paint a circle using the DFX Metallic Yellow, varying the sizes. The largest spot on the center top feather towards the tip of the wing.
5. Inside the yellow spots paint a smaller spot using the Snaz Turquoise.
6. And inside the turquoise spot paint an even smaller spot or half circle using the DFX Metallic Blue. Also add a few dark blue feather strokes off the stem.
7. Using the DFX Metallic Green and the size 0 round, finish the feathers. (Lots of quick fine S shapes heading up) Also add some green dots around the bottom and middle of the wings, as well as varying dots on the nose to create the body and antennae.
8. Using the TAG Black and the size 0, add some shaddows to the feathers and bottom of the spots.
9. Using the TAG White and size 2 brush, add your highlights. A highlight dot on each of the yellow and blue feather tips, and each of the green dots.
Also add some extra dots along some of the feather strokes and a few star bursts.

Here is one for christmas

Tools used #1 #2 #3 &#5 rounds and sponge
Colors used DFX met. blue, silver, white, black, red, green

Step 1 Sponge DFX met blue white and silver

Step 2 Add Santa's sleigh and outline of reindeer

Step 3 Add toy bag, reigns, santa's body, antlers and stars

Step 4 Add santa's head and hat, add tear drops in dark blue and highlight with white



Final look

Here is my Mardi Gras - fly

Tools used sponge #3 round 3/4" flat
Colors used DFX homemade metallic mardi gras split cake, met purple, met green, silver and gold, black

Step 1 Sponge on purple in opposite position

Step 2 Sponge on gold and green in opposite positions

Step 3 Outline wings in black. With split cake make butterfly anntenae and body and for accent at the corner of the eyes

Step 4 Add comedy/tradgedy expressions in black add star in purple. Outline butterfly and wing accents in met purple

Step 6 Add details in black and second star in met purple and green ribbons


Final look

You all are so talented! This one looks fun, I'll definately give it a try. :}

Wow! So many good submissions this time.

okay changing face, im cutting you off....lol j/k!!

awweeeee now my feewins is hurt....sniff sniff
<----------going to da corner and packing up my crayons

wow... these are all so impressive! You're churning them out!

I think they are all wonderful designs but sometimes I miss that butterfly effect.
Than it seems more like a eye design to me.

Heres my attempt. It's nowhere near as good as others, but its something different, and I was tyring to think out of the bag etc. It's my first time entering a competition, and so hopefully I'll enter more. This is a way of me remembering just hnow bad I was in months to come too haha

Its a Diwali Elephant - with ears formed from the shape of a butterfly. Diwali is the hindu festival of light and considered a holiday in their culture. The blue elphant (Ganesh) is popular in more than one religion, and he symbolises New Beginnings, which I though was quite fitting for me as well. So here is my Diwali Festival Butterfly





Colours used - All Snaz, Sparkle Turquiose, Sky Blue, Turqouise, White, Black. no sponges just one flat brush, the others are being replaced as they got left in water :'(

Eventertainments,
Try using the boiling water method on your old brushes, (it works!) you might be able to save a couple that way.
http://www.facepaintforum.com/general-face-painting-f1/help-brushes-bended-t2455.htm?highlight=bolied+water+for+brushes

Very cool event!!!

Linda Adams wrote:Eventertainments,
Try using the boiling water method on your old brushes, (it works!) you might be able to save a couple that way.

Thansk for the hint! Will give it a try tomorrow

This contest is now closed.

Love the "Holiday Butterfly" theme. But with Christmas soon approaching. I would love to see something devoted to "Christmas Butterflies"