Watch Beth as she gives her essential strategies in face painting for a high volume of clients in events.
If you're at an event, and it's a super high volume event, with thousands of people and you know you just need to go as quickly as possible, but you don't want to compromise your quality, you need to think strategically.
Use Split Cakes
I have two split cakes here. They are both TAG - one is Dragon and the other one is Flame. So in looking at these two, if a child asks for a dragon, I'm going to use the dragon one. And the reason I'm going to do that, is because there is black on this already. So when I load my brush from the split cake, I'm going to make sure that the black is where I want it to be, and I won't have to add a black outline. So that speeds things up!
This Flame split cake is great for flames, but if I'm going to use it for a dragon, it might not look as intense without that black outline to make it pop. So I really suggest for you to think carefully, and the same thing applies to green for snakes - pick one that's got a little black on the outside because then you don't have to add that extra definition or outline.
Sometimes when people want you to do super high volumes, say for a school event, church event, or some public event, they think cheek art is going to be your friend. But that's not really true. Cheek art is usually difficult to do quickly, primarily because it's small, you have to work with tiny little brushes to do details, the kids move, and that makes it harder, especially with younger children, so cheek art is usually not the best choice.
What you're going to want to do for super high volume, is you're going to want to have split cakes. This is my favorite rainbow split cake at the moment, and it's Ibiza from Global. With split cakes, you can apply several colors all at once very quickly with a wide brush, and then come in with a color like white or black and finish up.
Use Large Split Cakes
In addition to the small split cakes, it's also really important to have a good array of large split cakes, because these are going to allow you to move very quickly. When I do butterflies, I don't ask the kids a lot of questions. I might ask "what's your favorite color?' or "do you like rainbows?", and if they say "I like pink!", I'll pick a pink split cake or one that has pink on it. So I load it very quickly, I can do a butterfly that way, I can use it for flowers, for princesses and fairies, and monsters. It doesn't matter what I'm creating, the colors are all there.
If I'm doing butterflies and I'm trying to move very quickly, all I do is get the shape out with the split cake and I use white to outline.
Use Stencils
One of the other things you're going to need as far as equpiment, when you're doing something that's high volume, you're going to need some good stencils. Stencils allow you to add texture and detail very quickly without having to take that extra time to do everything with a brush. They are not cheating - it's a tool that allows you to go fast, or to add texture that you otherwise couldn't add very easily just with a brush.
Don't Give Too Many Options
One of the final things that you have to hink about as a painter when it comes to ultra high volume, is the options you're going to give children to choose from. I wouldn't make it a very large assortment of options, especially if you're trying to go unusually fast. By unusually fast, I'm talking about designs that take less than a minute to paint.
So this is one of my fast menus, but this is not for that kind of high volume .So these are fairly quick, but if I had to go really, really fast, I would probably offer a rainbow, some sport things, like a basketball, and I'd probably use stencils for those because doing the detail on a soccer ball, for example, will take you time.
Speed Tools:
• Small Split Cakes
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• Large split cakes
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• Sponges
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• Brushes
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• Stencils
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• Menus
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