Welcome to Norther Stars Summit
The focus of our first summit in 2020 is "On The Job" face painting education. We are working hand in hand with our master painters and business leaders to ensure that skills are developed during each workshop. We want you to come out a better painter and have new or enhanced skills in place for your next gig.
Many face and body art conventions pile on the workshops and force the attendees to choose between several classes occurring simultaneously. Our schedule takes the FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) off your plate, carefully planned to give everyone the opportunity to attend all workshops and jams. Our venue has wonderful hotel rooms and workshop space to boot. Mark your calendar
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Thursday, February 27
- 3:00 pm Registration and Jam room opens
- 4:30 – 6:30 Dinner – On your own
- 6:30 Welcome!
- 7:00 pm Face Paint Game
- 7:30 pm Continue to jam
Friday, February 28
- 10:00am – 12:00 Lori Hurley – The Art of Money
- 12:00 – 2:00 Lunch – On your own
- 2:00 – 4:00 Master 1 – Gretchen Fleener – Realistic Jewelry
- 4:00 – 5:00 Master 1 Jam – Gretchen Fleener
- 5:00 – 7:00 Dinner – On your own
- 7:00 Jam
- 8:00 Speed Paint Challenge Contest
Saturday, February 29
- 10:00am – 12:00 Tamina Muhammad + Lori Hurley – Speed Paint
- 12:00 – 1:00 Lunch – On your own
- 12:55 – 1:00 Family Feud Teams Announced
- 1:00 – 2:00 Tamina Muhammad + Lori Hurley Jam
- 2:00 – 4:00 Onalee Rivera
- 4:00 – 5:00 Onalee Rivera Jam
- 5:00 – 7:00 Dinner – On your own
- 7:00 Family Feud
- 8:30 Jam
Sunday, March 1
- 10:00am – 12:00 Clayton James
- 12:00 – 12:30 Thank You! End of Summit Closing
- 12:30 – 2:00 Lunch – On your own
- 2:00 – 3:00 Clayton James Jam
- 3:00 – 4:00 Jam
We're reducing the FOMO
Fear of Missing Out
Workshops
Northern Stars Summit is dedicated to your further education. Our paint-a-long intensive workshops are two-hours long. We have also added in a one-hour jam with the master painter, giving you the extra time to practice what you learned and ask all the questions. Well, maybe not all the questions.
Each attendee will receive a Summit Guide Book. This is not like any other guide book, this is gold! Each teacher will have exclusive pages of tips and tricks, the tools used and how to do that amazing thing you just witnessed.
Each attendee will receive a Summit Guide Book. This is not like any other guide book, this is gold! Each teacher will have exclusive pages of tips and tricks, the tools used and how to do that amazing thing you just witnessed.
Let’s meet our Masters for 2020
Realistic Jewelry by Gretchen Fleener
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Gretchen Fleener
Gretchen Fleener began face painting 25 years ago at Valleyfair for minimum wage plus $0.20 per design. Little did she know that after earning a degree in Industrial Design and working as a retail display designer for Best Buy corporate, she would end up face painting full-time! Gretchen now owns and operates Paintertainment, an entertainment agency and online retailer of face and body art supplies, and the MN State Fair’s Glitter Glamper. Gretchen has published 7 books on the subject of face painting, maintains a blog, monthly e-newsletter and YouTube channel, and is the editor of Wet Paint Magazine. She loves to teach workshops in the U.S. and abroad, and hosts monthly paint jams at her home in Mound!
Where would you ever use jewelry painting on the job? Well, knowing how to paint a gem can come in very handy if you forget to bring your rhinestones, if you get that super picky princess who wants a shape or color you don’t have, or if you simply need a smaller or larger gem than you have in your collection of stencils or rhinestones. Painted decolletage jewelry is Gretchen’s go-to design idea when the party mom sits in her chair and says “make something pretty!” Nothing makes your client feel beautiful and special like a one-of-a-kind decolletage design! Being able to fully customize a gem will enable you to match any outfit. Painted bracelets are also a great idea for those kids and adults who don’t want anything on their face!
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Gretchen’s jewelry class will walk you through painting gemstones, beads and chains utilizing a combination of both jaw-dropping realism AND real-world, on-the-job application techniques. First Gretchen will take you step by step through one super realistic looking gemstone, enabling you to grasp the underlying ideas of realism, so you’ll better understand how to simplify and apply those rules to quicker, on-the-job designs. Using what you’ve learned, we’ll then paint another style of gem with a facet design that’s super easy to remember how to do on the job, and can be adjusted to fit within whatever time frame you have.
Next, Gretchen will show you how to turn your stand-alone gem into an exquisite piece of jewelry or crown in less time than you think! She’ll share her speed tips and tricks for making super fast yet realistic looking details like beads, round gems in settings, and itty bitty diamond accents. As we turn our gem into jewelry, she’ll also demonstrate how to make realistic drop shadows, so your jewelry really looks like it’s sitting above the skin! Have you tried painting jewelry but something just doesn’t look right? No worries! We will also be looking at visual examples of some of the most common mistakes people make when attempting realistic jewelry, and how to fix them. If we have extra time in class, or we spill over into our jam session, Gretchen will take a poll to see what YOU would like to walk through with her, from the large assortment of gems and chains in her jewelry book!
Tools Gretchen will be using
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Not required, but may be helpful to have on hand, or sit by someone to barrow.
• Cameleon small blending brush (or any dried up, floofy old brush) • Round brushes (at least a fine one #0-#1 and a larger #3-#5) • Flat brush (1/2″ is great but whatever you have is good) • Assortment of small daubers…whatever size you have, from 1/2″ down to dotter size • A range of different types of paint in a similar color (ie. green, dark green, light green, metallic green, UV green…any color range will do!) • Wax based black and white (like Wolfe) • Glycerine based black and white (like Paradise) |
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The Art of Money by Lori Hurley
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Lori Hurley
Lori Hurley is an accomplished entertainer, artist and business coach who’s been delighting audiences of all ages since 1986 with clowning, physical comedy, stage hypnosis, face/body art, balloon sculptures, magic, singing telegrams and general silliness. Her early career included the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and now she includes many of the country’s Fortune 500 companies on her list of clientele, with the business that she and her husband own and operate. She’ll be teaching one of her popular classes at this event: “The Art of Money”, enabling participants to get out of debt in 5-7 years on the money they already make and spend! Lori is known for her whimsical teaching style which allows participants to learn and have fun at the same time, and producing unprecedented results.
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Financial wizard Warren Buffett once said, “The more you learn, the more you earn.” But it doesn’t matter how much you earn if you are being weighed down by debt. This is a class on keeping and growing the precious money you make. This class is for people (especially artists and entertainers) who are ready to have a breakthrough with money by learning to eliminate all debt (including your mortgage) in 5-7 years, and how to build a future based on joy instead of fear, so that you can keep on entertaining. If you are tired of financial stress, or if you get financial advice from your grocer, or if you have been meaning to pay off that debt, or if you are worried about your financial future, this class is for you. (*Note… no personal information will be shared in the class*)
Tools to bring to class
Grab your guide book and pen for taking notes. We have specific pages designed up for this talk. Or sit back and enjoy the information coming your way. Please know that we will be sending out a worksheet prior to the summit. Please fill it out and bring it with you to the summit.
Speed Painting by Tamina Muhammad
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Tamina Muhammad
Tamina is a illustration Artist, Art Instructor and Professional Face and Body Artist. She studied Illustration at Pratt Manhattan New York. Tamina has a strong background in Graffiti and Urban art. Instructor at ACE Convention, St Louis Convention and The 1st Online Summit. Sponsored artist with Diva Stencils. Artist of the Diva Rockin Graffiti line. Cover artist for Wetpaint Magazine and featured artist in Q Magazine and a few others. Winner of multiple online Face Painting competitions and International Face Painting competitions. Judge for multiple online competitions and challenges.
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Ready to become a faster face painter? Get the tips and tricks from two of the best speed painters as Tamina Muhammad and Lori Hurley team teach Speed Painting. Grab your tools and get ready to dive in and paint along to get faster results with designs such as butterflies, unicorns, princess crowns and cats, time permitting. This class will not only teach speed technique, but speed theory to help you become a better face painter at any event.
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Tools Tamina will be Using
Variety of Sponges
Finger Daubers Stencils with stars, hearts, splatter, or clouds elements – Lea Selley’s Graffiti Stencils are a great fit Round Brushes in #1, #2, #4, #6 and #8 Small Filbert Brush Wolfe Black and White Soft Black and white – like Mehron Regular cakes in assortment of colors Colorful rainbow split cakes |
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One Stroke Heroes by Onalee Rivera
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Onalee Rivera
In this class, I will demonstrate how I paint some of my most popular hero designs. I will show you how I use a few key techniques that are easily adaptable for a wide range of your favorite characters. Learn how to use one-strokes to contour effectively and quickly while keeping your hands clean. Then take the designs to the next level with optional details that are sure to impress. Please do not be shy and come prepared to paint along regardless of your experience or level of painting. I am here to help!
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Tools Onalee will be using
• Several gradient (anything with a dark end and light end) one-stroke cakes (I recommend my Fusion Hero Power palette and/or any cakes with shades of blue, shades of red, shades of green, shades of yellow, black to white or silver)
• Black, white, and silver face paint for line work • Neon orange and neon yellow face paint (optional) • Black powder or a powder palette (optional) (I use Elisa Griffith’s palette) • 3/4 inch flat brushes for one-strokes (I prefer the ones by Bolt and The Art Factory) • 1/2 inch flat brush or 1/2 filbert brush • Round brushes for line work (I use Marcela Bustamante’s ultra points) • A few stencils for texture (optional) • Any other go-to supplies (spray bottle, sponges, glitter, favorite solid colors, water cup, etc) • Practice sheets and/or a practice head • Sketchbook and/or notebook for note taking |
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Know Your Stencils by Clayton James
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Clayton James
In this class Clayton will teach several techniques to getting perfect stencil transfers for your face paint designs. He’ll go over sponges, pouncers, daubers, Kabuki brushes and even airbrush.
You will leave this class more confident in your stencil applications and know what to do when things aren’t looking correct. He’ll explain which techniques work best for different kinds of stencils, tips and tricks you may not have thought of, as well as proper stencil placement to work with the flow of your designs. During the Jam he’ll spend as much one on one time doing up close demos and answering as many questions as possible. Oh, and there will be home made peanut brittle and chocolate dipped toffee. |
Tools Clayton will be using
• #4 Round Brushes
• Script Liners • One Stroke Brush • Mini Kabuki Brushes (Available for purchase during the summit) •Sponges • Daubers • Pouncers • Airbrush • Stencils • One Stroke Paints •Misc. cake paints |
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Master Painter Jams
After each master painter teaches their workshops, enjoy an hour long jam with them. Go over specific techniques, get direct feedback on your work. This is a great time to ask them just about anything. They are here to help you learn and grow as a professional face painter.
Games
If there’s one thing we know about face and body painters, it’s that they play as hard as they work – and that’s why we’re capping it all off with a host of hilarious games and challenges. We can’t give away all of the details just yet (sometimes we need a few fun surprises), but we can tell you that there will be two games that will require some paint and brushes.
We’re also bringing a Particularly Paint-y Family Feud to our Summit! Grab a team and get ready to put your brain to work as you battle your way through questions and answers that just might leave you in stitches.
We’re also bringing a Particularly Paint-y Family Feud to our Summit! Grab a team and get ready to put your brain to work as you battle your way through questions and answers that just might leave you in stitches.
Jams
The only bad thing about having this much fun with our painty pals is that it must come to an end. Nowhere is this more apparent than during the creative painting jams. Time just seems to slip away too quickly. We learn so much from each other, from the simplest “may I try that brush” to “OMG! What brand of blue is that!” The way we can learn and support each other during jam time is just amazing.
For that reason, we’ve built in ample time for jamming with your peers; we know that this is where a lot of the most valuable experiences will happen.
For that reason, we’ve built in ample time for jamming with your peers; we know that this is where a lot of the most valuable experiences will happen.
VENUE
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DoubleTree by Hilton – Park Place1500 Park Place Blvd., Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55416
Staying over night? Pull right up to the hotel door on the far left. There’s a large computer screen inside that will show you how to get to our ballroom. Staying for the day? Park on the far right and walk into the unmarked doors to be right by our ballroom. |
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Room Block
We have a room block for all attendees until February 6, 2020. A special rate of $109.00 per night.
Check-in 3:00pm
Check out 11:00am
A request to hold bags so you can continue with the summit has been made. Please talk with the front desk when you check out to have them hold your bags until you are ready to go.
Dining
So many ways to eat right here in the hotel!
Dover Restaurant and Bar are within feet of our Summit room. Enjoy breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Dover is open from 6:00am to 11:00pm daily.
Check out the breakfast menu
Check out the lunch and dinner menu
In-Room Dining
Want a meal brought to you? Enjoy breakfast, lunch, dinner and more! See your guest room for details.
Running late? Or want a quick bite? Made Market is by the front desk of the hotel in the lobby. Open 24 hours. Stop by when you check in.
Dover Restaurant and Bar are within feet of our Summit room. Enjoy breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Dover is open from 6:00am to 11:00pm daily.
Check out the breakfast menu
Check out the lunch and dinner menu
In-Room Dining
Want a meal brought to you? Enjoy breakfast, lunch, dinner and more! See your guest room for details.
Running late? Or want a quick bite? Made Market is by the front desk of the hotel in the lobby. Open 24 hours. Stop by when you check in.
Nearby Dining
How to Get Here
To ensure you arrive, please visit the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Minneapolis – Park Place website on their Maps & Directions page. This has detailed driving directions. If your flying in, they include transportation information from the airport – and a super bonus of approximate cab fairs. Way cool, go check it out.
Parking
It’s free. It’s big. It’s outside and it’s not covered. However, Minnesota loves to play with their snow plows.
Register
Registration is open now and is limited to 40 attendees to ensure we can meet the needs of all of our participants.
Register by February 8, 2020 to receive our exclusive full color 100+ page guidebook.
Register February 9, 2020 to February 26, 2020 and you will not receive our exclusive full color 100+ page guidebook.
Select your pass
All summit pass holders who register by February 8, 2020 will receive a summit guide book.
Individual Workshops
Attend Individual Workshops
Individual workshops are $75.00 per workshop. Mini guidebook will be provided when you register by February 8, 2020.
Sponsors
Enjoy goodies, games and prizes and it’s all thanks to our sponsors! Check out their websites, and be sure to shop, follow, like and comment on their social media to give the love right back to them!
Thank you to our sponsors!
We cannot do this without you!!!
~ tricia
2020 Sponsors
Enjoy goodies, games and prizes and it’s all thanks to our sponsors! Check out their websites, and be sure to shop, follow, like and comment on their social media to give the love right back to them!
Your Company here! Check out our “Become a Sponsor” Page and be seen here.
Contact
If you have any questions or comments, or would like sponsorship info, please send us an email and we will be in touch with you.
About
Northern Stars Summit for Face and Body Art was founded by a graphic designer who saw a need for community and education in face painting in the upper midwest.
The thirst to learn new face painting skills in Minnesota is so high, and Northern Stars Summit is here to provide that education for new, intermediate and advanced face painters.
We aim to provide a new, creative approach to face painting conventions. Our workshops are set up to provide ample time to practice. Workbooks are created to guide, practice, and remember what is taught during workshops.
We know the importance of jam time. Northern Stars Summit has set up specific jam time with the master painters as well as general sessions of jam time allowing each attendee to work on their specific needs or get inspiration from surrounding attendees.
Our face painting community is such a wonderful group. We support each other in so many ways that when a face painting convention is in town, it’s like a family reunion. Its a place to refresh, connect and grow as a face painting entertainer.
The thirst to learn new face painting skills in Minnesota is so high, and Northern Stars Summit is here to provide that education for new, intermediate and advanced face painters.
We aim to provide a new, creative approach to face painting conventions. Our workshops are set up to provide ample time to practice. Workbooks are created to guide, practice, and remember what is taught during workshops.
We know the importance of jam time. Northern Stars Summit has set up specific jam time with the master painters as well as general sessions of jam time allowing each attendee to work on their specific needs or get inspiration from surrounding attendees.
Our face painting community is such a wonderful group. We support each other in so many ways that when a face painting convention is in town, it’s like a family reunion. Its a place to refresh, connect and grow as a face painting entertainer.
Become a Sponsor
Would you like to sponsor?
We LOVE our sponsors!
We have some packages created that you can choose from.
Each of our attendees will be receiving a guidebook, and we have room for your company to place an ad! We offer full page, half page and quarter page ad sizes.
Or you can make a contribution below, quick, simple and it means the world to us.
Fill out the form below to let us know that you would like to be a part of Northern Stars Summit and we will be in touch with you!
We have some packages created that you can choose from.
Each of our attendees will be receiving a guidebook, and we have room for your company to place an ad! We offer full page, half page and quarter page ad sizes.
Or you can make a contribution below, quick, simple and it means the world to us.
Fill out the form below to let us know that you would like to be a part of Northern Stars Summit and we will be in touch with you!
Thank You!!!
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