Category: TEACHING AND LEARNING

Post about events, workshops, and conventions that Paintertainment has been a part of, whether teaching or being taught

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#InspiredByPam

Yesterday our industry lost one of our own. If you’re a professional face painter and have been to any convention or are on social media at all, you know what a talented artist Pam Kinneberg was. If you were fortunate enough to have met her, you also know what a kind, genuine, and humble person she was. You may even have a pair or two or five of her fabulous hand made earrings! Pam’s bold and unwavering faith was as inspiring as her art!

While Pam has been promoted from an earthly angel to a Heavenly one, and is likely creating unimaginable beauty in paradise right now, we will all miss seeing her beautiful work! But that doesn’t mean we can’t keep her legacy and influence alive!

I happened to have a local paint jam scheduled today, and in honor of Pam, we decided to do a few paintings inspired by her work! My social media has been FLOODED these past couple days with photos of Pam! I got to thinking, not all of us were lucky enough to get selfies with Pam, but SO many more of us have been inspired by her work. So let’s show Pam’s beloved family and friends just how far and wide her inspiration goes! Join me in posting photos of your work inspired by Pam, with the hashtag “#InspiredByPam!” But don’t forget to include a picture of YOU! While we want to see the work she’s inspired, we want to see how many ARTISTS she has inspired too! So, whether you paint a design on your own face, or hold up a practice board, be sure to include the inspired artist behind the work!

I hope that you will join us in spreading Pam’s inspiration far as a tribute to all she’s done for our industry! Here are the paintings we all did today, all inspired by Pam’s work at the Glitter Glamper or from her social pages! Click HERE to download a free .png photo frame for your own pics, or on the icon at the top of this post!

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Two Jewelry Webinars This Month!

I’m very excited to announce that I have TWO webinars coming up next week on the topic of realistic jewelry, one of my favorite things to paint!! Each one will cover different topics and different jewelry pieces. The first one on Monday will be available free through FacePaint.com, but you do have to register to be a part of it! The second webinar on Thursday is for the FAM club for the Facade Academy in the UK! In order to watch this one, you must be a registered member of the FAM club! Read below for more info and links to register for both!

Monday, September 16 – Facepaint.com Live Webinar

On Monday, September 16, 2024 at 5:30 PM EST Gretchen will be doing a live webinar via Zoom and/or Facebook Live! This is a free webinar, but you do need to sign up to get the link! Click here to register for this free webinar and interact with us live! In THIS webinar for FacePaint.com viewers, Gretchen will walk you step by step through some realistic gemstones, and turn them into jewelry that pops right off the skin! While painting a realistic gemstone, Gretchen will demonstrate realistic lighting and shadow placement, and as she turns the gemstone into a piece of jewelry, she will help you to identify some of the most common mistakes people make when painting realistic jewelry. Gretchen will walk you through the gem itself, a setting, and a chain to turn it into a piece of jewelry, and how to create a realistic drop shadow underneath. Time permitting, Gretchen will also create a decolletage design while demonstrating some tools and tricks that help to paint gems, lace and beads/pearls more quickly!

Thursday, Sept 19 – FAM Club for Facade Academy Webinar

On Thursday, September 19th, 2024 Gretchen will be a guest instructor for the FAM Club by Facade Academy, based in the UK! This webinar will be live via Zoom at 8:00 PM UK time (2:00 PM CDT). In order to participate in this webinar, you must be a subscribing member of the FAM Club! Click here to find out more about the FAM club and how to join! In this special webinar tailored for FAM Club members, Gretchen will be applying the lighting and shadow principles that FAM club members have already been learning in September to jewelry designs. She will be combining these principles with the tools that face painters have on hand to create realistic designs that can be done quickly on-the-job, including a wrist/cuff design that incorporates a gem, a decolletage design that includes stones and different bead shapes, and time permitting, a forehead/tiara design that uses other speed enhancing tricks and tools!

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Tuesday Tips @ 10: Stencil Trick!

Happy Tuesday! Here’s a little trick I used when painting a Christmas sweater on my son a couple days ago for my Christmas cards! I love that he still lets me do this! This year I used a lot of fun stencils to speed up the process, and finished it all in 1 hour and 20 minutes (photo below). Have a happy Thanksgiving everyone!

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Tuesday Tips @ 10: Glitter Bottle Display/Storage

Happy Tuesday! Today I’m going to share a cool tip that I learned from my friend Anita Beal! This cool trick makes it so much easier to see what glitter colors are in the poof bottles!

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Tuesday Tips @ Ten: Super Easy Snowflakes!

Happy Tuesday! Today I’d like to share a great tip that I learned from my artist friend Linda John! I’ll show you her cool trick for making super easy snowflakes without using any stencils or even a brush!

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Tuesday Tips @ 10: 6 Ways to paint Fireworks!

Happy Tuesday and happy independence day!! Today I thought it would be fitting to show you 6 different ways to paint fireworks!

I hope you have a fun filled day of painting patriotic designs…please feel free to comment and share what YOU painted this year!

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Tuesday Tips @ 10: Painting Feathers

Happy Tuesday! Since my team and I will be painting some fun feather designs to complement our owl bling this week at the MN State Fairgrounds, I thought I’d do a little tutorial on painting feathers! How do you use feathers in your designs? Please feel free to comment and share your own feather related designs and tips! Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Tuesday Tips at Ten: How to Paint a Perfect Yin & Yang!

It’s Tuesday! Today I am frantically prepping to run my Glitter Glamper booth at the Kickoff to Summer event at the MN State Fairgrounds, so I decided to resurrect an old video! Check out this video for my tips to create a perfect Yin and Yang…they are much harder than they look and people often ask me how I paint them. Watch to see what I do!

Last week my website host was malfunctioning and I was not able to share my tip here on my blog, so below is last week’s tip. Unfortunately WordPress seems to let me down often, so if you check my blog again and find nothing on Tuesday at 10, be sure to check out my Facebook page as I’ve had the best luck so far getting my scheduled posts to show there! Thanks so much for watching!