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Ok, keeping in mind that I don't have any metallics, bling and the only glitter I have is snaz glitter gel... Here's my mardi gras creation (btw, I don't know the names of my brushes, so I took pictures of them):

first, I painted on a yellow and green basic mask shape using the red brush pictured below.


then, I outlined it using purple brush strokes from the blue brush.


I used this liner brush for the rest of it...

put some dots in the colours of the opposite sides around the edges....


Put some light purple around my eyes, made a light purple feather and some purple ribbons down the sides.


Last but definitely not least... added lots of gold glitter with a qtip.


sorry there's so much flash.

Wow! That was super fast. Nice Work!

Okay, here's my entry.

Supplies
Wolfe Paints: Dark Green, Red, Pink, Black, White, Purple, Yellow
Brushes: #1 Round, #2 Round, #6 Round
Glitter

#6 Round:green around one eye
#6 Round: mixed red and pink for around other eye

By ocfun, shot with NS-DSC7P09 at 2009-01-08

#1 Round: Black line
#1 Round: dots and feathers along black line


By ocfun, shot with NS-DSC7P09 at 2009-01-08

#2 Round: Purple and yellow small feathers on bottom of mask
#1 Round: Green, Pink and purple large feathers on top of mask

By ocfun, shot with NS-DSC7P09 at 2009-01-08

#1 Round: Black outlining
Then add glitter!!!!!

By ocfun, shot with NS-DSC7P09 at 2009-01-08

By ocfun, shot with NS-DSC7P09 at 2009-01-08

By ocfun, shot with NS-DSC7P09 at 2009-01-08

By ocfun, shot with NS-DSC7P09 at 2009-01-08

Very nice. I love it that you guys jumped in so quick. Your work will inspire others!

Wolfe yellow, purple, green, black, white
Sponge
#2 flat, #2 Round, #1 Round
Glitter



By ocfun, shot with NS-DSC7P09 at 2009-01-14
sponge yellow around eyes to form mask. Use #2 flat to paint purple feathers on bottom of mask and outlin top of mask

By ocfun, shot with NS-DSC7P09 at 2009-01-14
Use #2 Flat Green to paint feathers.

By ocfun, shot with NS-DSC7P09 at 2009-01-14
Use #2 Round Black to shadow in feathers.

By ocfun, shot with NS-DSC7P09 at 2009-01-14
Use #2 Round White to make curly's and tear drops

By ocfun, shot with NS-DSC7P09 at 2009-01-14

Use #2 Round Purple to make circles decreasing in size.
Use #2 Round Black to make tear drops.

By ocfun, shot with NS-DSC7P09 at 2009-01-14

Use #1 Round black to outline


By ocfun, shot with NS-DSC7P09 at 2009-01-14

Use #1 Round White to outline


By ocfun, shot with NS-DSC7P09 at 2009-01-14
By ocfun, shot with NS-DSC7P09 at 2009-01-14
By ocfun, shot with NS-DSC7P09 at 2009-01-14
Add Glitter

And one more Entry

Materials
Sponge
#2 Round

Wolfe White,yellow, green purple, black, red


By ocfun, shot with NS-DSC7P09 at 2009-01-14


By ocfun, shot with NS-DSC7P09 at 2009-01-14


By ocfun, shot with NS-DSC7P09 at 2009-01-14

Sponge on white. Use #2 Round to create yellow, green and purple feathers. Use #2 Round Black to outline eyes and to create thin line semi-parallel to feathers. Use #2 Round with red to resemble lipstick.

Very Nice OC. Lots of early submissions! Looks like this is going to be an interesting competition.

Supplies
Wolfe Bros: Metallic Blue, Black, White, Lime Green
Snazaroo: Pink, Orange
Round #3, Round #4, Large Filbert, Small Flat
Mehron Metallic Powder (Copper)

Step 1: Painted white and metallic blue base creating a mask using Paradise large filbert brush.


Step 2: Using same filbert brush, added pink, orange and lime green strokes to create more detail to the mask.


Step 3: With round #4 added detail with metallic blue around the eyes. Then added white to swirls with round #4.


Step 4: Outlined with metallic blue using the round #4.


Step 5: Added black detail around eyes to make a feather/boa look using the round #3 brush. Also added black for shadows to create a mask look using a small flat brush. Dusted with glitter (Mehron copper powder).

Great work ladies!

Jessica, OMG you totally remind me of Charlize Theron! I love your mask. Very sexy and beautiful details!! I especially love the black feathery 'boa' or long eyelash look. That's really cool! The soft black outlining really gives it a nice three dimentional look!

Wow! I am gobsmacked as the English would say. Terrific job!

Beautiful ! love the wolf metallic blue colour, very fun mask!

Kathy

Thank you guys! I get that a lot Heather. Charlize Theron and Michelle Pfeiffer.

ok ummm WOW!!!! is all I am going to say.

I love the mask Jessica. I too really like the black around the eyes. That is something I have never seen before.

Thanks for all of the positive feedback. That means a lot to me. Especially coming from other artists.
Here is another design.

Supplies:
Snaz Light purple, dark purple, and green.
WB black, yellow.
#4 Round, Large Filbert, small flat brush

Step 1: Painted base of mask with large filbert brush and Snaz light purple (lilac ?)


Step 2: I added shadowing with darker purple around the edge of the mask and around the eye.


Step 3: Using Snaz green and small flat brush, I added the middle part of the mask. Then with the #4 round I added "peacock feathers" at the top.


Step 4: I added light purple "peacock feathers" at the top. Then used the WB yellow to add more "peacock feathers" and details to the rest of the mask.


Final Step: I then added thin/soft black details. I added some black dots...then added some shadowing for my final touch.

Awesome! I love it!

Are you using a fairly dry brush and draggin in the shadows with black or another color, light brown? That shadowing is especially nice!

Another great look Heather. Do you use Detailz for your dots?

Oh me? heh. I just used the tip of a number 2 round.

I don't have any 'Detailz' yet. I have an eyeliner thing I bought but it's goopy and so I just use the brush.

supplies
#1 Round
#2 Flat
snazaroo white
wolfe pink, lght green, lght blue, purple, drk gren, drk blue, black.

use #1 round with snaz white to make mask around eyes.
Use #2 flat to make feathers with wolfe pink, lght green and lght blue
Use #2 Flat to make feathers with wolfe dark blue, drk green and purple
Use #1 with wolfe black to make outlining.
Paint lips pink.


By ocfun, shot with NS-DSC7P09 at 2009-01-21

By ocfun, shot with NS-DSC7P09 at 2009-01-21

By ocfun, shot with NS-DSC7P09 at 2009-01-21

By OCFUN at 2009-01-21

This is turning into a very fun and active challenge

Mardi Gras butterfly
Supplies used:
Paradise black
Wolf metallic purple
Ben Nye Lumiere mermaid green, cosmic violet, sun yellow, amethyst
Holographic gold glitter
No1 round paint brush
Various sponge applicators
I started with the lumiere powders. I used a sponge applicator (like a eye shadow sponge style) for each colour, to apply shapes of colour starting with a curved triangle in yellow over each eye for a kind of upper wing/antennae.
Then I added an underline in green, and I filled the just below the eyebrow with cosmic violet and brought the colour up to the green.
I used the violet again to make the lower wing shape.
I filled the upper eye lid with amethyst which I also used to outline the violet on the inside of the upper and lower wing shapes.
I added some more yellow to the inside edge of the bottom wing shapes.
I used the no 1 sized brush with paradise black to outline and add details to the butterfly shape.
I used the wolf purple with the #1 brush again to highlight some of the black details and colour the lips. Finish by liberally adding the gold glitter, mostly aiming for the yellow areas.

picture of finished face

Sweet Ladies! Very nice. I got to get busy and do one myself now! My eye isn't blood red anymore, so I can actually focus and paint now!

So many wonderful designs have been presented here! WTG!!

Love the butterfly too!

Didn't mean to be "annoying"

sorry

Bye everyone have fun.

That's cute! I LOVE those colors. Nice job!

The music scared the beejesus out of me. Had the speakers cranked up from doing the treadmill!