Feeling very intimidated by your talent

I am so grateful to all of you. Thank you.

Great advice Whitney! I love your mama!

Not everyone will be able to paint everything. I mean really if you could they need to build a FP shrine in your honor...lolol Plus there are somethings you are just not gonna have an interest in painting anyway.

Like for me I have absolutely no desire to do gorish designs...won't even attempt them. My limit on that would maybe be a ghostly looking figure or a typical mummy and I might paint something to look like a scratch or scrap but that's it. I don't do the really crazy looking eyeball hanging, guts/brains showing monsters either. It's just not my taste. So I don't condemn myself for not being good at doing them.

If you are thinking you have to be able to paint everything under the sun to be considered a good artist you will drive yourself batty.

Find what you like best to do and go with that

Here's some practicing that I am sure I will regret posting later but for now would like to show.

those are great and really pretty flowers!!! love the lil guy just too cute!

The practice looks great!

LOVE the Eeyore!

Thank you. I appreciate the feedback.

Face painting is an entertainment business. If people get out of your chair and are happy, and have been happily entertained, then you did a great job. Period no comparing.

And while I call my business (and was the first in the USA to do so - "Face Art" - really it's not always art, but most often craft.

You just get better with time. And we all paint differently there is beauty in that, in the differing styles.

Well said Whitney & Changing. I've really taken on board what you both have said.

Super practicing gr8ful love eeyore

Sweet Loretta wrote:Face painting is an entertainment business. If people get out of your chair and are happy, and have been happily entertained, then you did a great job. Period no comparing.

You are absolutely correct Sweet Loretta. The biggest lesson I have learned out of my uncertainty here and all the feedback is that I was defining myself by what I wasn't rather than what I am and will become. That is a lesson that has actually transformed my life yet again. It was an "aha!" moment for me and I am so grateful that I have such wonderful new aquaintences that will hopefully become good friends as well.

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I agree with everyone else. They've already said what I would have said, but add me to the list of feeling that way all the time! Ok, well I bounce back and forth. I think realistically, I'm somewhere like "better than average" for a face painter. Of course you have to remember that the painters on this forum that post pictures are all in the top tier of what is out there!!! My friend just told me she had to warn her daughter not to say anything rude after she got face painted by some "artsy" teenagers at the school BBQ. She told her daughter "remember that yesterday you were painted by a PROFESSIONAL face painter."

Gr8ful wrote:Here's some practicing that I am sure I will regret posting later but for now would like to show.

LOL - I've been painting for years and your roses beat the pants off mine... LOL

I hate my roses - and have vowed to practice and perfect them in 2011. I've got a long way to go.

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Wow! I feel like that all the time on this site, but I just love all the inspiration I get to try harder, to try new designs, and all the great advice!!

I respectfully disagree, but thank you DeannaB. That design looks lovely to me.

Hi Gr8tful


I also feel some times that I don't do as well as I wish I could but this time for you (and for me) is not the destination, but a step of the journey, and should be enJOYed!!!

I also teach oil painting as a Bob Ross "happy little trees? artist on PBS and Bob Ross has said on TV many times that he hopes people are plagued by some dissatisfaction all their lives,as it makes you work harder and improve. It is true. So moderately enjoy where you are and know that this time next year you will have improved so much. Maybe you will even jot a short note to those who are going to be new a year from now and encourage them.

Peace and Blessings
Evelyn

Just read your posts,..and to gr8ful...yes I feel the same way too. I am still learning and with the help of my sister who is a painter, and lotsa inspiration from here and video's.
If you are on fb,..you can send friend request , maybe we can inspire one another for more confidence and share ideas!
Have a great day

okay so here is my latest painting, and did it under 3 minutes!!
woo hoo...feedback anyone?....could use some feedback for a newbie...thx

Nicely done Mary! Nothing "newbie" bout that! Like how you placed the "highlights".

Wow! Very nice work Mary, and yes I am on fb so feel free to add me.

Thanks so much for the nice compliments, you guys ROCK, ...CC and gr8ful.....I will be happy to add you or any others on facebook.com.....Have a great day!!