Face painting a bird does not have to be a complicated task.
Whether it's for a play, a Halloween costume or a new addition to your face-painting repertoire, learning how to create a bird-inspired face paint design offers a fun and unique skill. Although it does take some practice, once you get the hang of a few basic face-painting techniques, you'll be able to face paint bird designs with ease.
Instructions
Flying in the Sunset
1. Dip the edge of a face-painting sponge in water, and then rotate the sponge in water-based white face paint to pick up a good amount of paint. Cover the entire face with white paint.
2. Load your wide, soft-bristled brush with yellow face paint by dipping the brush in water and then rotating it in the face paint. Paint a semi-circle on the chin. The wide, flat part of the semi-circle should face downward on the bottom of the chin, along the jawline. Paint the arch of the semi-circle so that it reaches up to the indent of the chin. This is the sun setting.
3. Dip your fan brush in water and then rotate it in the pink paint. Use the fan brush to paint horizontal, pink lines across the white base coat. Follow this with violet and orange wispy lines painted horizontally across the face.
4. Paint small birds randomly on the face with a small, round detail brush loaded with black paint. Do this by painting wide M shapes on the face, as if they are seagulls flying across the horizon.
Blackbird Face
5. Use a sponge to paint an orange diamond over the mouth reaching to the corners of the mouth horizontally and up to the nose and below the chin vertically. Then, load the sponge with yellow paint, and lightly dab it over the orange diamond to highlight it. This forms the beak of the bird. Paint the rest of the face black, also using a sponge.
6. Load a small, round detail brush with white paint. Paint the outline of feathers going up the forehead, coming out from the corners of the eyes, and across the cheeks. Create the feathers by painting a tall thin leaf shape with a vertical line through the middle and small lines coming off the vertical line in a slightly upward, diagonal direction.
7. Outline the orange diamond shape in white. Paint a white line through the middle of the diamond shape, horizontally, going across the mouth.
Swan Design
8. Use a medium, round brush to paint a white line starting at the end of the nose, going upward and ending mid-forehead. Rounding the top end of the line. This is the head of the swan.
9. Paint three more of the same lines starting below the nose, going down over the lips and ending before the bottom of the chin. These lines form the tail of the swan. Paint three shorter lines--still white and with rounded edges--across the cheek, starting at the base of the nose, going outward and ending before the hair or jawline. These lines form the wings of the swan.
10. Load a small, round detail brush with orange paint, and paint a small triangle coming out from the top of the line on the forehead to make the beak. Load the small, round detail brush with light blue paint, and paint blue lines over the white to highlight it.
11. Using the small, round detail brush put a black dot by the beak on the white line for the swan's eye. Put a small black lump on top of the beak where it meets the white line. This lump is the lump found on the beak of the swan. Outline all of the white lines and the beak in black.
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