Learning from Lucie

Saw Magna's post and yes, I am going to post my pix! (Which meant I totally forgot to write in your thread, haha...and I still have your memory card. Forgot to give it to you!)

So yes, Magna and I were lucky enough to have the fabulous Lucie Brouillard teach a 2 day workshop here in BC! I couldn't even form sentences by the end of today - that's how you know my brain is working

It's the first time I've taken a class with Lucie, and I decided it was comfort zone pushing time - so no painting a cheek unicorn when mine is similar - instead, I attempt a Lucie-abstract on our very own Magna:



Needs some work, was mildly terrifying , and immediately after I wish I'd done some things differently, but all in all, pretty pleased.

And today was my first attempt at anything larger than a belly - so much canvas to work with! I went to theatre school with my model. We both still act occasionally, and now I occasionally emcee, and she's a full time magician's assistant with her fiancé, so a theatre theme was a good choice! I don't know how Yvonne and Magna got so much body painted in that time - it took me forever to even do my blending, haha. Baby steps.



And a closeup of my cameo necklace attempt. It's no Ambah! (And why is my Snaz white so flaky?) but it's one body down, and many more to go!

Wow, you both did some amazing work.

Beautiful!

Love the mask! And the body design is great! Lucie is the best! She really helps to get your creative side working.

Beautiful work!! How lucky are you to get to work with Lucie!!

Awesome thanks for sharing - nice to wake yourself up with a step in a unsure direction. Just beautiful!

Wow - beautiful cristal!!! You should do a step by step of the necklace for the monthly challenge

Awesome! I love all the colors in the first one! ...and the body painting is amazing.

Awesome work Kristal! Thought I'd left a message last night, but I guess it didn't post. So tired today I took a nap and slept past my alarm so my kids had to call from the school and wake me up! It's our first 'snow day' too. I'm a BAD mom!

Thanks for making me look good during our facepainting workshop Kristal!
Here's another one Kristal did on me, plus what Lucie did on Kristal...she's a Pink Lion!

Kristal,
Can I tell you how jealous I am now?
Beautiful work girl....just beautiful!!

Wow. Great job guys!

great job, kristal!

Thanks, Lovelies!

(I was so pooped today, haha. Slept in, woke up with a headache (from oversleeping?!), then napped it off...)

You know, as I was doing the necklace, I did think about taking SBS pictures for the contest, but was on such a roll I didn't want to stop! I very well may re-do it.

Linda - you should have flown over and come to the class with us!

I'm still absorbing - but am already thinking of ways to use some of her techniques on my next belly.

I love our work

I was so exhausted today too! Slept through my alarm after taking a very rare nap and was late picking up my kids from school! Real bummer since we got our 1st major snowfall today and nearly didn't get out of my driveway. Not a good thing when you're in a rush.

I posted some pics on facebook Kristal

Beautiful stuff! I'm so happy you both got to have such an amazing teacher!
Kristal, I've heard others say snaz can be flaky....

...then what's a girl to do?! I'll give it a spray with a glycerin mix and see if that helps...I'm potentially doing a snow globe belly next week (though I'm kind of hoping she chooses the jungle one!), and don't want the snowmen to flake off like the fish bowl started to!

I need to get some pix up on FB; I've just been bogged down. I'm actually at work right now...haha. (No, not a party - can you imagine?)

Lucie says if you keep the paint layers thin, they don't flake. Hard to do with white though.

Exactly. I'll play and see what I can come up with...Maybe I'll crack open a Kryolan white too, and compare - then I'll have 3 whites kicking around

I haven't got the Kryolan, but I have the Paradise, DFX & Snaz. I guess I do have the pearl/silver Kryolan, and Fantasy Worldwide pearl white too...you can never have too much white!

Do you have paradise white? It's the best, won't flake & has awesome coverage. Kryolan is good, but is too creamy for me. I love the coverage & blending but, it takes longer to dry, so it smears. I'm using it right now because I could get it from my local costume shop & ran out of paradise.

You can never have too many whites