Online Class: Face Painting 101

no certificate
with CEU Certificate*
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12Lessons
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27Exams &
Assignments -
1,916Students
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10Hours
average time -
1.0CEUs
Course Description
Face painting, simply defined, is the act of applying cosmetic paint to a person's face for entertainment, theatrical, or even symbolic reasons. We see examples of face painting at Halloween or at school carnivals and other charity functions where face painter's set up booths.
However, face painting is not a trend that's come about in recent years, as you will soon learn. It's also not a craft that's limited to Halloween or to entertain small children. Once you learn the art of face painting, you will be surprised at the number of ways you can put your skill to use, either for fun or profit.
This course is designed to introduce someone who's never painted a face before to this intriguing art. It also goes one step further and provides detailed instructions for getting started, application techniques that you can use, and outlines of patterns so that you can start to paint faces like you've been doing it for years.
You'll learn:
- The history of face painting
- How to learn to paint nearly any design you want
- The tools you'll need to be a successful face painter
- The types of paint you can use
- How to use the brushes and sponges to create beautiful designs
- How to create tribal art, animal faces, scary faces, and more
- The steps to create 6 beautiful designs--you'll be a pro at creating these by the end of the course!
- All about cheek painting
- How to make money from face painting
Course Motivation
The first thing that is important to talk about in regards to face painting is artistic ability. Many people mistakenly believe that in order to be extremely good at painting faces that you must also be an artist. They believe you must be able to draw or paint well, or have some other artistic talent to be good at painting faces.
In fact, many of our students sign up for this course hoping that we can teach them to paint the most complex designs. They hope we'll take them from drawing stick figures to painting intricate butterfly wings on little girls' faces.
The truth is that everyone has artistic ability, but the level of ability varies from person to person. The level of artistic ability that you personally possess is based on how much instruction you've had and how much you practice. While it's true that not all of us are Rembrandts capable of creating beautiful masterpieces that will hang in museums for years to come, it's also true that almost any of us can be taught to create art at such a level that our drawings, paintings, or whatever we create will be recognizable to the human eye.
For Those Who Already Sketch, Draw, Or Paint
If you already enjoy sketching, drawing, or painting on paper as a hobby, then face painting will still be a huge transition for you. The drawing part may come easier since you already have an eye for the lines and shapes, but you will still have to adjust to using the face as a canvas and how to apply paint to skin.
Start studying human faces. Look at the bone structure, the facial profiles, and start imagining how you'd take a lion's face and paint it on that of a child. What about a butterfly? On the human face, your paintings can be as simple or as intricate as you want them to be. In this course, we'll teach you how to plan them out just as you would scenery on paper.
What You will Need to Complete This CourseThere are dozens of different types of supplies that you can buy for face painting. In fact, it can get rather expensive. Later in this course, we'll talk about face painting as a source of profit at fairs and carnivals and what you will need to get set up as a professional face painter. However, for now, let's talk about the supplies you will need to get through this course.
Each lesson of the course contains information pertinent to face painting. In this course, we'll talk about techniques and, in others, we'll actually teach you some faces that you can create by walking you through them step-by-step. At the end of each lesson, there will be a lesson exercise that will quiz you on the information that was presented to you in that lesson. You will need to complete these exercises to pass the course.
- Completely Online
- Self-Paced
- 6 Months to Complete
- 24/7 Availability
- Start Anytime
- PC & Mac Compatible
- Android & iOS Friendly
- Accredited CEUs

Course Lessons
Lesson 1: Introduction
Lesson 1 Video
Lesson discussions: Face Painting; Reasons for Taking this Course
Complete Assignment: An Introduction
Complete: Lesson 1 Assignment
Assessment: Lesson 1: Introduction
Lesson 2: Face Painting in History and Today
Lesson 2 Video
Complete: Lesson 2 Assignment
Assessment: Lesson 2: Face Painting in History and Today
Lesson 3: Face Painting Supplies
Lesson 3 Video
Complete: Lesson 3 Assignment
Assessment: Lesson 3: Face Painting Supplies
Lesson 4: Becoming a Face Painting Artist
Lesson 4 Video
Complete: Lesson 4 Assignment
Assessment: Lesson 4: Becoming a Face Painting Artist
Lesson 5: Safety Tips for Face Painting
Lesson 5 Video
Complete: Lesson 5 Assignment
Assessment: Lesson 5: Safety Tips for Face Painting
Lesson 6: Preparing the Painter and the Face for Painting
Lesson 6 Video
Complete: Lesson 6 Assignment
Assessment: Lesson 6: Preparing the Painter and the Face for Painting
Lesson 7: Planning Your Designs
Lesson 7 Video
Lesson discussions: Face Painting Designs
Complete: Lesson 7 Assignment
Assessment: Lesson 7: Planning Your Designs
Lesson 8: How to Select and Use Brushes and Sponges
Lesson 8 Video
Complete: Lesson 8 Assignment
Assessment: Lesson 8: How to Select and Use Brushes and Sponges
Lesson 9: Basic Designs: Animals and Bugs
Lesson 9 Video
Complete: Lesson 9 Assignment
Assessment: Lesson 9: Basic Designs: Animals and Bugs
Lesson 10: More Designs: Clowns and Scary Faces
Lesson 10 Video
Complete: Lesson 10 Assignment
Assessment: Lesson 10: More Designs: Clowns and Scary Faces
Lesson 11: Tribal Designs and Cheek Painting
Lesson 11 Video
Complete: Lesson 11 Assignment
Assessment: Lesson 11: Tribal Designs and Cheek Painting
Lesson 12: Face Painting as a Career
Lesson 12 Video
Lesson discussions: Face Painting Career; Program Evaluation Follow-up Survey (End of Course); Course Comments
Complete: Lesson 12 Assignment A
Complete: Lesson 12 Assignment B
Assessment: Lesson 12: Face Painting as a Career
Assessment: The Final Exam
Learning Outcomes
- Summarize face painting in history and today.
- Identify face painting supplies.
- Summarize safety tips for face painting.
- Prepare the painter and the face for painting.
- Plan your design and select the proper brushers and sponges.
- Identify and use basic designs in face painting.
- Demonstrate tribal designs and cheek painting.
- Demonstrate mastery of lesson content at levels of 70% or higher.
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