Mary's Designs

Thursday, 5 November 2015

Halloween Make-up 2015

Thank you to all my customers this Halloween, including http://www.metamorface.biz/

Wednesday, 14 October 2015

Some work from the past year, they're all available for sale, please contact me if you're interested

Monday, 24 August 2015

Friday, 17 April 2015

Step by steps in Illusion Magazine

Monday, 25 August 2014

More Face Painting Step by steps

I love being a friend of Illusion magazine, and love sending them my step by steps, below are links to some new ones, also can't recommend enough the fantastic face and body art magazine they publish four times a year

http://illusionmagazine.co.uk/ilusion_blog/it's_all_about_mary
http://illusionmagazine.co.uk/ilusion_blog/mary_is_back_with_her_latest_design
http://illusionmagazine.co.uk/ilusion_blog/what_can_you_do_with_this_mary
http://illusionmagazine.co.uk/ilusion_blog/maleficant

Tuesday, 11 March 2014

Face painting Step by steps by Mary

Here's some links to a couple of step by step face paint designs on the Illusion Magazine blog, thank you Claire and Julie xxx. Illusion Magazine is dedicated to Face and Body Artist all over the world, it's published four times each year, I highly recommend taking a subscription to the Illusion, I have every issue and each one is an amazing resource for every face and body painter. http://illusionmagazine.co.uk/

For boys

How to create each of these designs follow the link below each photo to the Illusion blog

http://illusionmagazine.co.uk/ilusion_blog/skull_step_by_step_face_painting_design_by_mary_fairgrieve

Spring inspired design on my lovely model Mary Ann

http://illusionmagazine.co.uk/ilusion_blog/step-by-step_spring_face_painting_design_by_mary_fairgrieve

Horse (or could be changed to a unicorn) face paint design

http://illusionmagazine.co.uk/ilusion_blog/face_painted_unicorn_step-by-step_by_mary_fairgrieve

Halloween face paint design on my lovely model Vicky Devaney

http://illusionmagazine.co.uk/ilusion_blog/halloween_step-by-step_design_from_mary_fairgrieve

Highland Cow Art for sale £40.00 plus postage, 28cm x 18cms approximately

Yeah Detroit

My son Sean has been with his band members (Yeah Detroit http://www.yeahdetroit.com/ https://www.facebook.com/yeahdetroit ) for a long time now, they have worked hard, practiced, put lots of hours in over the years, this combined with their amazing talents have resulted in an unforgettable product of music which is available to buy, they are all sweethearts too. Here's a link to purchase if you would like to http://yeahdetroit.bigcartel.com/product/everybody-hates-cd

Here's a link to some other examples on U tube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CizgivChn2U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwsMATbKgg4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpeIuz7vrdc

Thursday, 31 October 2013

Halloween Make up Fife

Halloween is a great time of year for Dressing up and having fun with make-up and costumes, if you would like to have your make-up done please let me know, I take appointments through the day, here are a couple of examples, please email me enquiries@facethisway.co.uk

Thursday, 17 October 2013

Mary Fairgrieve Artist in Fife

I have uploaded quite a lot of artwork into my facebook album https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.231187380224704.70231.148878698455573&type=3 , I will upload more into my blog as soon as I get the time, I did have an online shop for a while but it was costing too much per month and I haven't had the time to market it properly so for the moment I will just be uploading all my work on my blog and facebook page, below is one I finished recently -Peachy Horse, Oil Painting £70.00, small canvas, 9 inches by 12 inches , if you want to buy anything you can pay me using my paypal address if you have a paypal account or I can provide you with my bank details, call me on 07980049708 if you would like more details. Many thanks. Mary

Monday, 18 February 2013

Latest oil painting

Elongated Abstract Horse, 72cm x 19cm, price £120.00 - This didn't take too long, I enjoyed the process and it didn't get too fiddly, I'm quite pleased with the result (at the moment). I'm working on several others and playing with colour, I'd like to plan to have an exhibition next year sometime, unless I find a way I like to sell them online.

Wednesday, 30 January 2013

Hen Night Fantasy Make-up/Face and Body Art

A fun idea for a hen night out, thanks to the girls for posing for some great photos

Monday, 5 November 2012

Two new Oil Paintings

I started these a couple of years ago but it's just recently I've been able to finish them off. I invested in a potting shed last month, this is now my studio/working space, when the sun is out it's possible to get a couple of hours work in.

Monday, 1 October 2012

Paintings with oils

Tuesday, 8 May 2012

How to Make a stamp for Face Painting designs

Materials required - Thin foam, thick foam/polystyrene, pencil, pen, surgical knife, Pritt Stick, Scissors

Step one – Print image, make sure it’s the exact size you want, it’s easy to make it too big. Draw round the edges with pencil. If you’re doing writing or an image that needs to face left of right, remember to use trace the right way round.

Step Two – Cut a piece of thin foam (try to use a light coloured piece so the lead shows up) to the approximate size, rub the outlined image onto the foam,. These thin foam sheets can be bought in packets from the £1 shop or most places that sell craft materials.

Step Three – Trim the outlined image as close to the edges as possible, don’t cut anything else at this stage, as it’s too fiddly. Then using a good quality Pritt Stick (I’ve been using Power Pritt Stick) stick onto either a foam or polystyrene block/'base' (something that's easily cut/trimmed), the foam backing from pizzas etc is quite good for this, you might need to double the 'base' thickness as it's easier to manage when applying the paint.

Step Four – You can leave for a couple of hours to allow the glue to dry or overnight.

Step Five – Draw round the pencil image again with pen to define the line.

Step Six – With a surgical knife (these can be bought from most craft shops, remember to buy lots of blades) carefully cut the remaining areas away, always make sure your fingers are never in the way and never let children use one of these knives or leave them lying around.

Step Seven – Trim the edges of base foam or polystyrene, in this example I used a funny kind of foam but it's best to use the polystyrene sheets that come with pizzas etc I mentioned earlier.

Your stamp should now be ready to use, I apply the paint to the stamp using a sponge, you’ll need to practice the consistency of paint required to achieve a good solid image, DFX and Wolfe paint work very well. With careful use the stamps should last a very long time. I'll try to post some images of designs done using stamps in the future.

I hope you find this useful.

Mary x