April-Anna

Objective
  • Fashion or Fantasy Face & Body Painting
  • Mehndi: Temporary Henna Tattoos
  • Realism & Surrealism in Mixed Mediums
  • Murals or Backdrops
  • Warped Reality Art Installations
Contact
  • Phone: 514-243-4315
  • Email: aprilanna@gmail.com
Experience June
2008
Color Mondo
Montreal
Quebec
 
  • Body Painting Competition
  • Body Painting Demonstration
  April
2008
Bal du Mont-Royal
Montreal
Quebec
 
  • Face & Body Painting of staff and performers, plus 24 wall mural panels
  October
2007
Upper Lounge
Montreal
Quebec
 
  • Face & Body Painting for Opening night
  October
2007
GoGo Lounge
Montreal
Quebec
 
  • Face Painting for Halloween of 17 staff members.
  October
2007
Private Party
Freighlingsburg
Quebec
 
  • Thanksgiving party; Face Painting
  September
2007
Private Party
Montreal
Quebec
 
  • Face Painting
  September
2007
Bat-mitzvah
Montreal
Quebec
 
  • Temporary Henna Tattoos for 3 hours
  September
2007
Campbell’s Soup
Hull
Quebec
 
  • Temporary Henna Tattoos for employees at company party.
  September
2007
Yellow Pages
Montreal
Quebec
 
  • Temporary Henna Tattoos for employees at company party.
  August
2007
Trojan Condoms
Montreal
Quebec
 
  • Body Painted two models; 2 four hour contracts, one in Quebec City and the other in Montreal.
  August
2007 
Private Wedding
Montreal
Quebec
 
  • Face Painting and henna on the Bride and Groom as well as at the wedding party.
  July
2007
Pow-Wow
Eel Ground
New Brunswick
 
  • Face Painting children at the Pow-wow during a working holiday.
  July
2007
Space Gathering
Montreal
Quebec
 
  • Face & Body Painting at an Electronic Music Festival in the Forest.
  May
2007
Harmony Elementary
Chateguay
Quebec
 
  • 5 hour contract face painting as many children as possible out of a total of 2000 children.
  May
2007
Private Wedding
Montreal
Quebec
 
  • 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.
  May
2007
Cirque Du Soleil
Montreal
Quebec
 
  • 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.
  December
2006
Cirque Du Soleil
Montreal
Quebec
 
  • Mehndi: Temporary Henna Tattoos
    • 4 hours Painting Cirque Du Soleil employées at their annual Christmas Party. This was my second subcontract from Lumanessence for Cirque Du Soleil.
  October
2006
BBCM Foundation: Black & Blue
Montreal
Quebec
 
  • Body Painting & Mehndi: Temporary Henna Tattoos
    • Painted one of the organizers, Caroline Rousse for the event.
  September
2006
CLSC
Montreal
Quebec
 
  • Mehndi: Temporary Henna Tattoos
    • CLSC Retirement Party.
  August
2006
International Montreal Art Expo.
Montreal
Quebec
 
  • 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.
  August
2006
Milton Park Centre
Montreal
Quebec
 
  • Children’s Face Painting, & Temporary Henna Tattoos
    • Painted the children participating in the day camp for a day
  June 16
2006
Cirque du Soleil
Montréal
Québec
 
  • Mehndi: Temporary Henna Tattoos
    • Painted Temporary Henna Tattoos on employees at a private Cirque de Soleil party. Subcontract through Lumanessence
  March 15
2006
Casino De Montreal
Montreal
Quebec
 
  • 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.
  January
2006
Gypsy Circus Fashion Designs
Montreal
Quebec
 
  • Face & Body Painting, & Photographer 
    • 2 Photo Shoots for Gypsy Circus fashion designs, including delicate body painting to enhance visual presentation of fashions.
  December
2005
Club Soda
Montreal
Quebec
 
  • 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.
  November
2005
Ondecuko Circus
Kingston
New York
 
  • 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.
  October 28
2005 
Wassabi Collective
Toronto
Ontario
 
  September
2005
Molson Canadian Concerts
Vancouver
BC
 

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
  September
2005
Naughty Bits Fundraiser
Vancouver
BC
 
  • 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.
  August
2005
Molson Canadian Concerts
Vancouver
BC
 
  • 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.
  August
2005
Ganga Giri
Salt Spring Island BC
 
  • Face & Body Painting

    • Ganga Giri is a did-jer-ri-du musician; tribal fusion indigenous aboriginal sounds layered with electronic beats
  April & July
2005
Myth Makers Theatre
Sunshine Coast
BC
 
  • Face & Body Painting

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

Dec 2004
to Present

Wild Rose Tattoo Shirts
Vancouver
BC
 
  • Mehndi Tattoo Designer for Shirts & Tights

 

1996
to Present

Festival Vendor & Freelance Artist
BC &
Quebec
 
  • 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.

Certificates

 

  • Food Safe Level 1
  • Retail Loss Prevention
  • Customer Service Workshop
  • Unlearning Racism
  • Many Entrepreneur, Woman in Business & other related workshops
  • SuperHost Fundamentals
  • SuperHost Serving Individuals with Disabilities
  • Serving It Right
  • Cash Register Training
  • Learning to See Auras & Energies
  • Reiki Level 3 - Masters

Background

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.

Interests

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