Please join us on the "Weekly Animal Challenge"

Maggie, your work is always great! I'm loving that mermaid. I always find eyes to be difficult too.

Daizy, I've always adored your fairies. I even tried it once.

I love, love love those fairies! I'm going to have to figure out how to use split cakes. I'd never heard of them til finding this site! I guess I have way more to learn than I thought and I sure am looking forward to it.

Thanks Gina!
Thank you Gr8, I never heard of them until I joined this site either lol I always saw the rainbow designs and thought WOW, how do they blend all those colors and how long does that takes lol

Wow Maggie! LOVE that mermaid, you did not disappoint! I think the eyes look great, they add a peaceful feel to the design, I'd say keep 'em.

maggie your mermaid is beautiful!! wow! i like the eyes as well as everything else. ok, you now officially rock at doing fairies and mermaids!!

Thanks Punky and Rae! Although I see a little problem on the shoulder area I am very happy with the results, Love that the hair can cover most of the defects LOL

Gina, just noticed you posted a link to a pic, your fairy is adorable, love how she is spreading fairy dust

maggie wrote:Awww, thank you!
Ruth, when are you leaving to PR? When you come back we can set up a date when we can meet

I just painted this mermaid, looks much better than the 1st one I painted LOL
I think I am going to skip the eyes next time.

That would be great.

And this mermaid is the best!!! bella, bella, bella. Girl u got talent

btw, i love the sea weed in her hand...gosh I just love everything about her.

oooo..I had such a hard time when a little girl asked me to paint Ariel..I think I'm gonna try using this as the inspiration for Ariel. I may have to practice tonight!

Thank you Ruth, you are a doll

Thanks Shawna! I feel so honored to inspire such a talented painter as yourself

I did a party and about 5 girls, including the birthday girl, asked for Ariel. Luckily, at least there was an invitation (to another party) nearby that I used as a reference and the kids loved it. But, I wasn't really happy with it. I found that same picture around my house and decided to practice some more. I'm sure it will be very popular if I actually offer it.

maggie wrote:Okay, here is my take on Daizye's fairy, I think I might have the shapes down. Now I need to make it my own

That is beautiful!!! So elegant, it would look perfect floating around the eye and across the forehead!

I love seeing everyones attempts at the fairies.. they are so cute!

I only wished mine would turn out as well when at an event, for some reason they never look quite right.

Thank you Daizy! means a lot to me coming from you "the queen of the fairies"
I adore your work.
BTW I am loving your new profile picture, so darn cute! The expression is the best

I've been away for the weekend,, practicing lots!! It is so neat to see you guys practicing on line and seeing the process. great fairies everyone!! I left all of my brushes at my face painting workshop.. I am gutted and feel very bare... I have many new beautiful colours to try but no brushes!
Hopefully the postman will not be slow..I'm almost tempted to go and buy new ones!! I so want to try those fairies!

Oh man! As impatience as I am i would of run to the store and got new brushes lol

Okay, so this week we said Bunnies or amphibians ???
Anyone??

which one? or is it both?

Just one but want to see which one everyone else picks.

I don't mind. I still have to make something in the 'fantasy' category. I'm behind.

How about we go with rabbits? I mean, what with Easter coming up and all.

Sounds good to me!
Nancy, you can still post picture for fantasy Can't wait to see what you do.

Roger that! Okay, here a couple of cheek/arm art rabbits I do... I don't have a full face one I really like, so not posting that, lol.

For easter:


And what's easter without a chocolate bunny??


And okay... there's a backstory to go with these next two...
I used to show rabbits when I was in 4-H and every year at the end of the fair all of the different livestock barns (rabbits, poultry, swine, goats, sheep, horses, beef, and dairy) would have a "Battle of the Barns" competition where we'd do all kinds of mini games and whichever barn won the most, won that year and got its name up on the giant plaque that we had. Well, last year at fair, a bunch of my former rabbit mates came asking for face painting for the competition... and here are a couple of the results... lol

Punky, funny rabbits you did. You are very good at drawing.

Maggie, if I do a fantasy rabbit, I'm done for this week too ha ha.

Those are adorable Punky, I really like the chocolate bunny, yummm!
And those scary rabbits are so much fun, wicked cool!

Nancy, I supposed you can do that.
Hey maybe I can paint a fairy bunny, that would cover the bug challenge I missed, the fantasy and the bunny all together ha!