FacePaintings at 'Melee

Well, I've gotten behind in posting about my Creative efforts!

Here's one from a couple weekends ago.
My husband, Chris (the attractive fellow with the "woad wolf" at the bottom right) attended a medieval reinactment camping event for the SCA (society for creative anachronism) on the weekend of June 13/14/15, 2008, called "Murder Melee in the Meadow XXV"

Friday was pretty low key and we enjoyed the musical talents of Noni Crete and Eugene Rea in The Raven Tavern that night.

There was some rain on Friday night, but we didn't care since we were snug in musical heaven and looked forward to sleeping in a nice dry bunk rather than a tent.

Saturday dawned clear and sunny and I enjoyed the day nestled in the foyer of the cabin we were staying in (near the merchants) -- facepainting and playing my penny whistle. My husband (known in the SCA as "Olfus") played his mandolin and we worked on our songlist for a Saturday night performance in the Tavern ~ since sadly, Noni and Eugene were not able to return.

The performance went very well and we wandered off afterwards to enjoy some more singing and some burnt marshmallows with friends around their campfires, before heading back to our bunks for the night.

Tweaking Pics

I was surfing through the ukfacepaintingchat today and one of the members, Erica, wasn't happy with some of her latest new pics...

What's not to love? Good models who emote, attractive facepainting that is well executed with good brush-strokes and colour choices...

I figured that it was just because the background was too pale and the light a bit harsh (bright daylight).

I did up these examples with her ART on Photoshop to show her what I'd do if a photo I'd taken of my facepainting wasn't "singing" to me...

Afterwards we chatted online and I took her through the process so that she can do it herself! I enjoyed helping her out and giving another person a "push" to explore this nifty program.

I've escaped from little Unicorn-girl land...

Well, I painted what seemed like three million and one unicorns on girls today... Eeyup, that was the popular design at the Springwater Family Fun Day.

The weather was clear and sunny, a little cold, but I was really nice and toasty in my shelter with my wonderful propane heater!

Here's the page that I made up with pics from the day. The Unicorn design is the one 3rd down on the right...

I am so ready for a nice hot bath.

I did the whole Earth Hour thing where I turned off lights and stuff for an hour between 8 & 9pm. Now I'm just finishing up some stuff before I chill out (or steam out if I decide on that nice bath!)

Not so COLD after all...

The weather turned out pretty nicely after all today. Of course, it helped that the wonderful folks at Springwater/Catfishcreek Conservation area set up a nice wind-proof tent for me with a propane heater! I was nice and toasty...

Speaking of toast, I still smell like a campfire from the boiling syrup demos that they were doing all day. I kinda like it! (I'm strange that way.)

Here's a montage that I made up of photos I took of a bunch of the kids I painted today.

I think I'll do one next weekend too. Now I just have to figure out what kind of "weather dance" I need to do to have it turn out as reasonable as it was today. Not terribly warm, but clear and sunny, so we had a good turnout of attendees.

Tomorrow I'm off to see some of my husband Chris' family for Easter. We should probably get ourselves to bed soon! Happy Easter everyone!