• Fashion or Fantasy Face & Body Painting
• Kid's Face Painting
• Mehndi: Temporary Henna Tattoos
• Fine Arts in Mixed Mediums
• Murals & Backdrops
• Art Installations

• Phone: 514-243-4315
• Email: aprilanna@gmail.com

• Face painting & special effects make-up for circus performers at a fundraiser organized by Santropol Roulant for Meals On Wheels at the Just for Laughs Museum.

• Group Art Exhibition and Christmas Art Sale. I showed 7 art works, 2 sculptures and released my new line of merchandise which included greeting cards, postcards, posters and my new art-book.

• Halloween make-up for DJ & staff.

• Face painting for 40 children, end of school celebration.

• Non-traditional henna applied for bride and ladies in waiting at an Indian-French Wedding.

• Body Painting and face painting of performers for Throw Poetry Collective's fundraiser for their cross Canada festival tour.

• Preperation and live on-stage body painting performers at night club.

• Body Painting Competition

• One night art cabaret with over 30 artists at the city's art gallery. I showed 5 pieces: 1 collaborative photograph on canvas, 3 sculptures, 1 fine arts piece as well as one live body painting on a contortionist.

• Private 3 hour tutoring on face painting & henna.

• Workshop teaching teenagers & teachers how to face paint - fantasy & fashion.

• Full Body Painting

• Face & Body Painting

• Sculpted 3 foot nose from paper mache to be used as a prop. Constructed with proper nose canal so that fake snot could be poured through the nostrils.

• Body Painting Competition
• Body Painting Demonstration

• Face & Body Painting of staff and performers, plus 24 wall mural panels

• Face & Body Painting for Opening night

• Face Painting for Halloween of 17 staff members.

• Temporary Henna Tattoos for 3 hours

• Temporary Henna Tattoos for employees at company party.

• Temporary Henna Tattoos for employees at company party.

• Body Painted two models; 2 four hour contracts, one in Quebec City and the other in Montreal.

• Face Painting and henna on the Bride and Groom as well as at the wedding party.

• Face Painting children at the Pow-wow during a working holiday.

• Face & Body Painting at an Electronic Music Festival in the Forest.

• 5 hour contract face painting as many children as possible out of a total of 2000 children.

• 2 Contracts doing Face & Body Painting for two female photographer/performers who wanted to include the face and body painting as a part of their wedding outfit and party.

• 2 Contracts for 4 hours Painting henna style body paint on the serving girls of one of the sponsors; Bombay Saphire. Both contracts were subcontracted through Esther K Make-Up for the VIP Cirque Du Soleil opening night Gala parties; one for the Media and the other for special guests.

• Mehndi: Temporary Henna Tattoos
  • 4 hours Painting Cirque Du Soleil employ�es at their annual Christmas Party. This was my second subcontract from Lumanessence for Cirque Du Soleil.

• Body Painting & Mehndi: Temporary Henna Tattoos
  • Painted one of the organizers, Caroline Rousse for the event.

• Mehndi: Temporary Henna Tattoos
  • CLSC Retirement Party.

• Sponsored Exhibitor
  • Showed samples of all of my art works; paintings (acrylic, watercolour & mixed mediums), pen & ink, photos of face/body painting & live henna. Body Painting photos of my work were used on one of the posters for the event.

• Children’s Face Painting, & Temporary Henna Tattoos
  • Painted the children participating in the day camp for a day

• Mehndi: Temporary Henna Tattoos
  • Painted Temporary Henna Tattoos on employees at a private Cirque de Soleil party. Subcontract through Lumanessence

• Face & Body Painting, Temporary Henna Tattoos 
  • Subcontract through Agent. Worked for an evening providing my services to the clients who were at the Brazilian night. It went over very well.

• Face & Body Painting, & Photographer 
  • 2 Photo Shoots for Gypsy Circus fashion designs, including delicate body painting to enhance visual presentation of fashions.

• Face & Body Painting
  • Hired by manager Michael Nicodemo, to provide half nude body painting to two galaxy & flower themed Go-Go dancers for Fundraiser Concert.

• Circus Face Painter, Art Installation Constructor, Singer, & Story Teller
  • This was the Pilot Project of the Ondecuko Circus, a dream of founder Juan Markos Mysterson. Previous Ondecuko events were circus themed parties in Manahattan. This was the first attempt at a real circus.

• Face Painter for Fire Toy Performers
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Mehndi: Temporary Henna Tattoos, Face & Body Painting

• Contract work, I was a part of a sponsored Concert at the UBC Welcome Back Celebrations. I provided body painting services to the audience

• Face & Body Painting

  • Provide body painting services to 5 dancers for Naughty Bits Fundraiser raising money for the Vancouver East Side Woman’s Shelter, organized by Douglas College Students.

• Mehndi: Temporary Henna Tattoos, Face & Body Painting

  • Molson Canadian Concerts sponsored a contest to be a Celebrity for a night at the Commodore Ballroom. Included a free concert at the Commodore by JET, with free food, free massage and free body painting.

• Face & Body Painting

  • Ganga Giri is a did-jer-ri-du musician; tribal fusion indigenous aboriginal sounds layered with electronic beats

• Face & Body Painting

  • Worked 3 separate events providing Face Painting Services to performers in this multi-media theatre.

• Mehndi Tattoo Designer for Shirts & Tights

  • Completed 3 contracts of Mehndi Tattoo Designs which are then turned into sheer shirts and tights intended to look like real tattoos.  http://www.wildrosetattooshirts.com

• Booking, hiring & training, supervising, retail, public relations, set up & tear down, budgeting for vending work at festivals or for private parties, private weddings and more.

I speak only English. 

I have worked for 10 years as an Independent, Self Taught Artist, at Festivals, Events, Concerts, Private Photo Shoots, Private Parties, Weddings, Birthdays and More.  

1995: At the age of 17 I started my first home based business and was in and out of the local media as a result. That same year, I had one of my paintings put into an Art Stamp Collection & Art Gallery Show in the Nicola Valley, BC. 

“Nicola River”; Acrylic, painted in 1996; often mistaken for a photograph. This is the 2nd painting, at the age of 18, to go into an Art Gallery (Strand’s Gallery). This & one other painting are in the art collection of Jeff Martin of The Tea Party.   

I have been a part of 3 Group shows at the Alternator Gallery in Kelowna, BC in 2000 and 2001. 

I am an unrecorded singer with a range of 4 octaves; Soprano & Alto; Celtic & Eastern Sound as well as I can make my voice sound like flutes & with similarities to Chinese Violins & other eastern instruments.

Arts of all forms, Music of all forms, Story Telling and Mythology, Circus, Theatre, Creative Writing… I am training in; Stilts, Unicycle and Fire Dance. 

References Available Upon Request
Photographic Samples of my work are available upon request