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Published: Thursday, June 21, 2007
Hudson woman’s canvas
is right under your nose
By KAITLYN HENNIGAN, Telegraph Staff
Don’t expect rainbows or balloons on your cheek when you sit down at Deidre MacDonald’s
face painting tent this weekend at the fifth annual Rock ’N Ribfest in Merrimack.
MacDonald is the owner of Wycked Good Face and Body Painting and will be the main face
painter at this weekend’s annual event. Her style of full-face painting transforms event-goers
into lifelike lions, monsters, skeletons, butterflies or princesses in as little as 10 minutes.
“What do you want to be today?” is the question you face as you take a seat in front of the
airbrush-wielding Hudson resident. She has been painting faces professionally for the past
three years.
“It’s all about the look on the little kid’s face when I hold up the mirror,” said MacDonald. “If they
are a tiger, they’ll start growling at their friends. They are transformed.”
MacDonald, who is originally from Danvers, Mass., has been an artist her whole life. She
received a Bachelor of Arts in fine arts from Endicott College and said her background in art now
helps her create the face paintings that can be seen on fans at Fenway Park or attendees of the
Topsfield Fair. She said her study of anatomy and color theory during her college years now
helps her to make the realistic paintings.
“To me it is art,” she said. “No two paintings are alike. Everyone has a different bone structure,
so techniques are always changing.”
After Endicott, MacDonald began working for an electronics company drawing schematic
designs for engineers. She later attended MIT and learned computer-aided design and Web
code, which allowed her to create Web sites and drawings using the computer.
When her daughter was born, MacDonald decided to become a computer technology teacher at
St Joseph’s Regional School in Salem, where she currently works. But, it was a trip to Disney
World that inspired MacDonald to pick up a paintbrush and return to her fine arts roots.
“I knew I could do it and do it well,” she said of professional face painting.
MacDonald began painting faces in Salem, Mass., for Halloween and enjoyed the “wow factor”
of the final product so much that she decided to paint regularly. She now paints at birthday
parties, corporate parties and large events around New Hampshire, the North Shore and
Boston.
This year is MacDonald’s first trip to Merrimack’s Ribfest. A banner will display the many
different faces that Macdonald and her team of four artists can create for children as well as
adults. Using non-toxic water-based theater make-up, MacDonald will create half-face masks
for $5 and full-face paintings for $10. She uses an airbrush to quickly apply the lightweight base
makeup used to create the full-face paintings and plans on using stencils to create many
different temporary tattoos in addition to the face painting.
“The range is unlimited,” she said. “Spider-Man is very popular now for boys and girls are easy.
Anything with glitter is good.”
MacDonald said flames on bald men’s heads are also a popular request and one bald man
asked her for a cracked egg painting complete with yellow yolk dripping down his face.
In May, MacDonald and her sister spent five days at the Face and Body Art International
Convention held in Orlando, Fla. It was MacDonald’s first trip to the conference where more than
400 painters of all experience levels gathered for training sessions, workshops and
competitions. MacDonald plans to attend the event next year and bring her now 9-year-old
daughter.
MacDonald said she practices her paintings on her daughter and sister, and also practices
daily on her own face.
“I tell my daughter that you never quite know what mommy’s going to look like. Sometimes the
Hulk answers the door.”
Macdonald said she is excited about Ribfest, and is not fazed by the large crowd that is
expected.
“Big crowds don’t scare me,” she said. “I love being able to be with kids and seeing that smile
in the mirror.”
MacDonald was recently invited to paint animal faces at an expo for the television channel
Animal Planet at the Topsfield Fair in August and has many more upcoming events.
To see some of MacDonald’s work or for more information about Wycked Good Face and Body
Painting visit www.wyckedgood.com.
So, what do you want to be today?
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Published: Thursday, June 21, 2007
Hudson woman’s canvas
is right under your nose
By KAITLYN HENNIGAN, Telegraph Staff
Don’t expect rainbows or balloons on your cheek when you sit down at Deidre MacDonald’s
face painting tent this weekend at the fifth annual Rock ’N Ribfest in Merrimack.
MacDonald is the owner of Wycked Good Face and Body Painting and will be the main face
painter at this weekend’s annual event. Her style of full-face painting transforms event-goers
into lifelike lions, monsters, skeletons, butterflies or princesses in as little as 10 minutes.
“What do you want to be today?” is the question you face as you take a seat in front of the
airbrush-wielding Hudson resident. She has been painting faces professionally for the past
three years.
“It’s all about the look on the little kid’s face when I hold up the mirror,” said MacDonald. “If they
are a tiger, they’ll start growling at their friends. They are transformed.”
MacDonald, who is originally from Danvers, Mass., has been an artist her whole life. She
received a Bachelor of Arts in fine arts from Endicott College and said her background in art now
helps her create the face paintings that can be seen on fans at Fenway Park or attendees of the
Topsfield Fair. She said her study of anatomy and color theory during her college years now
helps her to make the realistic paintings.
“To me it is art,” she said. “No two paintings are alike. Everyone has a different bone structure,
so techniques are always changing.”
After Endicott, MacDonald began working for an electronics company drawing schematic
designs for engineers. She later attended MIT and learned computer-aided design and Web
code, which allowed her to create Web sites and drawings using the computer.
When her daughter was born, MacDonald decided to become a computer technology teacher at
St Joseph’s Regional School in Salem, where she currently works. But, it was a trip to Disney
World that inspired MacDonald to pick up a paintbrush and return to her fine arts roots.
“I knew I could do it and do it well,” she said of professional face painting.
MacDonald began painting faces in Salem, Mass., for Halloween and enjoyed the “wow factor”
of the final product so much that she decided to paint regularly. She now paints at birthday
parties, corporate parties and large events around New Hampshire, the North Shore and
Boston.
This year is MacDonald’s first trip to Merrimack’s Ribfest. A banner will display the many
different faces that Macdonald and her team of four artists can create for children as well as
adults. Using non-toxic water-based theater make-up, MacDonald will create half-face masks
for $5 and full-face paintings for $10. She uses an airbrush to quickly apply the lightweight base
makeup used to create the full-face paintings and plans on using stencils to create many
different temporary tattoos in addition to the face painting.
“The range is unlimited,” she said. “Spider-Man is very popular now for boys and girls are easy.
Anything with glitter is good.”
MacDonald said flames on bald men’s heads are also a popular request and one bald man
asked her for a cracked egg painting complete with yellow yolk dripping down his face.
In May, MacDonald and her sister spent five days at the Face and Body Art International
Convention held in Orlando, Fla. It was MacDonald’s first trip to the conference where more than
400 painters of all experience levels gathered for training sessions, workshops and
competitions. MacDonald plans to attend the event next year and bring her now 9-year-old
daughter.
MacDonald said she practices her paintings on her daughter and sister, and also practices
daily on her own face.
“I tell my daughter that you never quite know what mommy’s going to look like. Sometimes the
Hulk answers the door.”
Macdonald said she is excited about Ribfest, and is not fazed by the large crowd that is
expected.
“Big crowds don’t scare me,” she said. “I love being able to be with kids and seeing that smile
in the mirror.”
MacDonald was recently invited to paint animal faces at an expo for the television channel
Animal Planet at the Topsfield Fair in August and has many more upcoming events.
To see some of MacDonald’s work or for more information about Wycked Good Face and Body
Painting visit www.wyckedgood.com.
So, what do you want to be today?
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Brookline celebrates Olde Home
Days, Blueberry Bash
By EILEEN HYNES, Telegraph Staff
Published: Sunday, Jul. 22, 2007
Staff photos by Stanton M. Paddock
Deidre MacDonald, left, removes a stencil from the arm of Julia
DeMatteo, 8, of Brookline, on Saturday afternoon. MacDonald set
up her waterproof temporary tattoo studio on the outskirts of the
Brookline Blueberry Bash at the town ballpark.
Sharon Hodges, (L) and Deidre
MacDonald(R) show off their painted faces
at the Face and Body Art International
Convention, held at the Doubletree Hotel.
The convention features face and body
painters from across the world who can
receive exposure to the latest body art and
face painting trends. Artists can also exhibit
their work on live models through "paint jam"
sessions and fashion shows.
VINCENT HOBBS,
THE ORLANDO
SENTINEL
May 2008
MacDonald(R) show off their painted faces
at the Face and Body Art International
Convention, held at the Doubletree Hotel.
The convention features face and body
painters from across the world who can
receive exposure to the latest body art and
face painting trends. Artists can also exhibit
their work on live models through "paint jam"
sessions and fashion shows.
VINCENT HOBBS,
THE ORLANDO
SENTINEL
May 2008
WMUR NH Chronicle
by TIFFANY EDDY, Anchor
Aired: June 30, 2008 WMUR TV Channel 9
There's a woman in hudson who can transform you into just about anything you
can imagine. Deidre MacDonald owns WyckedGood Airbrush Face and Body Art
and she can transform a toddler into a tiger or perhaps a kitty cat. As for adults the
skies the limit, take look at how this artist uses "you" as her canvas.
by TIFFANY EDDY, Anchor
Aired: June 30, 2008 WMUR TV Channel 9
There's a woman in hudson who can transform you into just about anything you
can imagine. Deidre MacDonald owns WyckedGood Airbrush Face and Body Art
and she can transform a toddler into a tiger or perhaps a kitty cat. As for adults the
skies the limit, take look at how this artist uses "you" as her canvas.
Nashua Telegraph ENCORE
June 8, 2008
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EYE OF THE TIGER Deidre MacDonald, of WyckedGood
Face & Body Painting, will be one of the vendors at the Rock
’n RibFest at Anheuser-Busch in Merrimack on June 20-22.
This tiger face is an example of her work.
June 8, 2008
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EYE OF THE TIGER Deidre MacDonald, of WyckedGood
Face & Body Painting, will be one of the vendors at the Rock
’n RibFest at Anheuser-Busch in Merrimack on June 20-22.
This tiger face is an example of her work.
Staff photo by Corey Perrine
Hennigan’s completed tiger face is
purr-fectly detailed.
Staff photo by Corey Perrine
purr-fectly detailed.
Staff photo by Corey Perrine
MacDonald rinses her brush in water amid
an array of paints. Paints are waterbased,
nontoxic and can run up to $25 an ounce
on some paints.
Staff photo by Corey Perrine
an array of paints. Paints are waterbased,
nontoxic and can run up to $25 an ounce
on some paints.
Staff photo by Corey Perrine
| Deidre MacDonald |
| deidre@wyckedgood.com 603.881.4031 Boston New Hampshire |