The Auguste Clown
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The Auguste clown is my favourite. He tends to create ‘sparks’ during clown acts and the White Face and the Hobo is always at his mercy.
An Auguste has the following characteristics:
Is the opposite of whiteface. He is on the receiving end of whiteface jokes, and because nothing ever goes right for him, people love him and identify with him. He personifies the human condition. Slapstick, prankster, nothing goes right for him, takes the falls but can stand.
His makeup is:
Very exaggerated features, primarily natural flesh tones with white around exaggerated eyes and mouth.
His wardrobe is:
Bizarre, exaggerated, usually two piece suit, colourful (eg big pants, three ties, tiny hat, oversized shoes, colourful wigs). Colour combination is out.
Clowning & Ballooning Seminar
Splattered Paint conducted a clowning and ballooning seminar at Subang Jaya AG church on Saturday. In conjunction with the church’s missions week, they wanted to explore the creative side of ministry through clowning and ballooning.
Before the seminar commenced, Hoopee entertained the crowd with balloon sculpting, silly skits and a whole lot of goofing! The young and old were thrilled to have a clown in their midst. Apparently it’s been a long time since an animated character stepped into their premises.
That’s Hoopee!
Adding colour to the carnival, we set up a face painting and attracted huge crowd. Busying our fingers and imagination, we painted all kinds of icons based on request from butterflies to cars to penguins. It’s exciting to see how a little paint and colour instantly dazzles the children’s eyes (even adults for that matter!)
Happy customer:)
The seminar lasted for 2 hours and by the end of the session, the participants were asking for more. We basically covered basics of clowning (ie. gestures, different clowns and their characters, make up etc).
And for ballooning, we got straight into action pumping up pencil balloons and twisted it to make a dog, a mouse and a flower.
We can see how easily captivating all of these are to the participants. It’s really fun! We’d be back for more in the future… (a longer seminar we hope!) If you are interested to pick up a new cool skills, give us a tinkle, the Splattered Paint team would be happy to share our knowledge, and many clowning hilarious clowning stories!
Are you a White Face clown?
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If you are a white face clown, you will possess some of these personalities:
Exaggerates childlikeness, vulnerable lover, riskier, truster, idea creator, clever, smart, mischievous, playful, most cheerful of clown types but still has tears and compassion, in all acts they react in dismay to the Auguste’s stupidity.
Your makeup has the following:
Neat, classic style, all white face, simple lines for facial features. Mainly uses black and red colours but may have others, such as blue.
Your costume is:
Neat looking, one-piece jumpsuit or two piece loose fitting pyjama type garment, outfit is usually highlighted with a ruff around the neck and large pompons on the front, colour combination is simple white gloves.
So, are you a White Face clown?
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Birthday Party Tips!
We’ve planned a lot of events over the last few years. Big scale, medium scale and small groups. The most challenging to plan are children’s events. Not only do we have to satisfy the adults (who eventually pays the bill), our guest the tiny tots has to leave the place thrilled too!
Let’s talk about annual events, birthdays for instance. A child would at least have one birthday party in their childhood. Don’t fret at the thought of it. If you’re thinking of planning one, here are some tips to help you.
- Tip #1: Try to plan your party 3-4 weeks in advance. You don’t it to be a frenzy.
- Tip #2: Choose a theme. Easiest your child’s opinion on this. Getting a theme will help you organize your thoughts on what to buy, what games to play, what party packs to get.
- Tip #3: Decide on the party time. Best times for parties are between 2.00 – 4.00pm. That way you won’t need to serve a meal but finger foods instead.
- Tip #4: Sit down with your child and plan the guests list. Make invitations together and get your child to write the names on the invites.
- Tip #5: Food! What’s a party without food?! Don’t stress yourself over a banquet, plan wise and simple. Keep the menu wholesome but fun. Add colour by adding different types of veggies in sandwiches or sprinkling multi coloured M&M’s on ice cream.
- Tip #4: Focus on the activities instead of the details! Children LOVE games and interactive activities. They’d leave the place remembering what they did rather than what beautiful deco they saw. Decorate the place but don’t sweat the little details!
- Tip #5: Party favours! The trick is that every child goes home with a gift. It doesn’t matter if it comes from the dollar shop or Toys ‘r’ Us. Throw in a variety of gifts into a party pack, they’d be happy to dig their noses into it.
- Tip #6: Important but very often overlooked. Assign a photographer for the party. You’d be so busy having fun, the only time you remember there are no tangible memories of the special day is when it’s all over.
Let the party planning begin! If you need more tips, we would be happy to help you. Contact us!
You’ve Got Splat!
This website represents the business side of us. We do get calls every now and then to help different people, families, organizations and corporations to work on different aspects in events. So we thought? Why not? Let’s try the power of the web. See what it can do!
And the story continues. We got married…and among other things we are doing – serving God, living a life of faith, working our full time job with enthusiasm, planning to travel round the world, having beautiful family and friends around us…we now to try to show the business side of us. Will it work? Who knows!
For starters, do spread the word around. If you require our assistance on planning, coordinating, organizing or just picking our brains for your event – we believe (or we like to), that we’re good at what we do! Have fun browsing along these pages, and we will use this blog section to share unconventional ideas of what you can do for your event.
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