During the New Year holidays, you can often see funny painted children's faces on the streets - this is New Year's face painting. We have this interesting, completely harmless to health technique for painting the face and body became fashionable a dozen years ago and quickly won the favor of adults and children.
What is face painting?
Face painting is a special, aquatic type of decorative makeup, a kind of watercolor paint. It is not difficult to apply and wash off paint, and the range of applications is huge. Without face painting, it is difficult to arrange theatrical entertainment shows, holidays, matinees in kindergartens and schools, to stage amateur performances. The greatest demand for the technique of applying watercolor masterpieces to the body is used by employees of the entertainment business, animators.
Decorators, creative people, people specially trained in the handling of paints, people who know their properties and character, professionally create images, help children transform into selected characters and have fun. Face painting for the New Year holidays is especially popular. New Year 2022 will be no exception, kids literally queue up to look like fairytale heroes, tigers, cats and dogs.
Technique and tricky nuances
There are several options for creating colorful images. Employees of stores selling aqua paints not only offer a wide range of them, but also acquaint with the basic rules for creating a pattern on the skin, paint application techniques. Face painting master classes, video tutorials and other training options are held so that you can create various images with your own hands.
Harmless dyes are easy to apply, easy to wash off and come in a variety of different ways:
- primary colors of the spectrum;
- neon;
- fluorescent;
- pearlescent.
For ease of use, splitcakes have been invented, making it possible to paint a face in one stroke. A special splitcake package contains paints arranged in a specific order, detailed and very simple instructions are attached.
Creative natures are acquired by professional brushes, sponges, sparkles, paint sets, all kinds of accessories and try themselves, using the faces and bodies of friends, relatives, acquaintances and strangers as a canvas. It is difficult to think of more fun entertainment for children!
Unlimited possibilities for creative people are presented by the coming year, the Year of the Tiger according to the Chinese calendar. The owner of the year, the Blue Water Tiger, loves a restrained range, in yellow-brown tones, but not against bright, juicy strokes. For boys and girls, the appropriate thematic images are suitable:
- gobies of "courageous" breeds;
- soft, "ladies'" muzzles of cows;
- images "for everyone"
Variety of colorful images in photos
You can expect a huge number of funny dog faces walking the streets and squares in late December - early January. Of course, in the Year of the Tiger, children's matinees, performances and New Year's quests will be devoted mainly to these animals. However, the New Year, as a winter holiday, will not be complete without Santa Claus and Snegurochka, Snowflakes, Snowstorms, Zimushka-winter - characters painted in a winter theme.
In print and online publications, photos of images are presented, among which children can pick up those close in spirit and mood. New Year face painting is:
- galleries of dog faces, funny and sad, funny and serious;
- characters of fairy tales and stories;
- familiar heroes of fairy tales for kids;
- bright butterflies, baleen cats, red foxes and spotted lynxes;
- familiar doll faces of Barbie, Mashenka, bully boys;
- pirates of all kinds and degrees of intimidation.
Pirates
Fairy tale characters
Butterflies
Cubs and kittens
Whatever image a child chooses, small or large, a schoolboy, student or even an adult, face painting guarantees a good mood and a joyful pastime.
Photo ideas for girls
Photo ideas for boys
