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ARTIST PROFILE
Naomi Smith: Owner of Time Honored Designs is a successful face and body artist, supplying live art services for events and studio work in the Portland, OR, Vancouver WA area since 2001.
Education: Degree in Graphic Arts in addition to four years intense fine art courses, full year internship at Color and Designs Exhibits, Inc (worked on three dimensional graphics and art projects such as: Cold Water Ridge Visitor’s Center, OMSI, Seattle Doll Museum, National Wild Life Projects and Forest Service Projects).
LIVE body Art Exhibitions: Live exhibit in Orlando Florida, first body art live runway exhibit in Vancouver, WA, Live body art showing at Portland Art Museum consisting of six full body paintings depicting Master Works, Human Living Caracal show for Portland Zoo, Living chocolate body art for Chocolate Festival, Portland, OR, Live painted on Jeans showing at Alberta Art Walk, .
Gallery Showings (prints and canvass): Sixth Street Gallery, Onda Gallery in Portland, Gresham City Art’s Council Gallery and Howe Gallery.
Other art related projects: Completed five large wall murals in the American Legion Hall, Carson WA 1995, two large wall murals in the American Eagles Lodge, Stevenson WA 1996, Beacon Rock Golf Course Billboard 1995, Khron Logging Trucks graphics 1995, painted large window graphics from 1994-1998 ranging from Hood River OR to Salem OR, completed year long project for Portland Habilitation Center creating historical library containing set of 25 albums to display fifty years of history, 2000, designed Joe’s Place Farms Brochure 2003. designed all signs and promotional materials for "Three Sister's Cove" North Dakota 2002. Currently the face and body art technical advisor for Mad Hatter Magic Shop
Published Works:
•2010 Front page of Living Section in Columbian Newspaper for Halloween Story
• Perceptions Magazine 2009 below print of snow leopard
• Spring 2007 Illusions Magazine Issue 2: Article-"Painting a Step by Step Jaguar"
• Green Butterfly face art and painted on denim overalls photo
• Illusions Magazine Issue 3: article "Pacific Northwest Body art Jam" and full page back cover for Silly Farm Supplies advertisement
• Teeze Magazine April 2007 ad for Platinum Stages
• Vancouver Family Magazine August 2007 article on "Artails"
• Vancouver Family Magazine August 2006 "Safe Face Painting Article"
• Front page photo: Columbian Newspaper, summer of 2005
• Interview about Body Art Competition-Columbian Newspaper 2006
• Interview and article "Painted on Jeans" Oregonian News summer 2007
• Some of her faces have been used on the Portland Trail Blazers Website , Vancouver Volcanoes IBL
team Website and Billboard and Portland Timbers Web site.
• Photos of her work used in Advertising for Joe's Place Farm
• Photos of her body art used by the Portland Art Museum Promotional Materials
• Channel Six News interview on Body Art for Portland Art Museum's: “Come as you Art Ball”
•Live painted faces aired on NBC half time for Seattle Sea Hawks game
•Live painted faces aired on ESPN for Portland Timbers Game
Film - Three Large prints of body art displayed in Motion Picture: "Death Chocolate and Taxes" debuted April 2008 and displayed at the World Premier.
Set Work: "Extreme Measures" and "Walk in My Shoes"
Awarded Works
Currently, Naomi has semi-retired from the competition ring to dedicate herself to her family and business 100%
• One of six body artist world wide juried to compete in t
he "International Body Art Competition", Orlando,
Florida 2006
• Awarded trophy for painted model, two placements of First place in Face and Body art competition: St.
Patrick's Day Designs 2006
• First place in Face and Body Art Competition: Back Painting 2006
• Placed 3 times King & Queen of the Hill Body Art Worldwide Competition for 200 days.http://www.snazaroo.us/queen/bodyoff.htm
• Fifth Place, Honorable Mention and a third entry juried in Best of
2007http://www.snazaroo.us/queen/bodyoff.htm
• Fourth Place and a juried entry in Best of 2006 http://www.snazaroo.us/queen/bodyoff.htm
• Placement into The Top 100 Full Face Designs http://www.snazaroo.us/03/100.htm
• First place Creative Face Painting with Triangles: Snazaroo 2007
http://www.snazaroo.us/06/6triangle.htm
• Second Place: Autumn/Fall Face art competition 2006: Snazaroo http://www.snazaroo.us/05/5fall.htm
• Second Place & Honorable Mention: Painting Pirates Competition, Snazaroo 2006 http://www.snazaroo.us/06/6triangle.htm
• Second Place: Painting Silhouettes : Snazaroo 2006 http://www.snazaroo.us/06/6sil.htm
• Accepted as a challenger 3x's in the King and Queen Face Off:
http://www.snazaroo.us/queen/faceoff.htm (notice some entrie are by the name of Faith)
• Finalist in Summer Free for all 2004 http://www.snazaroo.us/04/4sum1.htm
• Honorable Mention Fish Face Photo Contest 2005 http://www.snazaroo.us/03/100.htm
• Honorable Mention Painting with Black and White 2008 http://www.snazaroo.us/03/100.htm
• Honorable Mention Using the color Purple and Lilac: http://www.snazaroo.us/05/5purple.htm
• Honorable Mention, Rule of Three 2004: http://www.snazaroo.us/04/4rule.htm
• Three Honorable Mentions in Summer Free For all 20005 http://www.snazaroo.us/05/5sum2.htm
• Honorable Mention, Hawaiian and Tropical 2007, http://www.snazaroo.us/07/7trop.htm
• Honorable Mention Stars 2006, http://www.snazaroo.us/06/6star.htm
Clients: Time Honored Designs has an extensive list of clients available upon request.
TESTIMONIALS
Here are some REAL testimonials from clients (last names and companies have been kept anonymous to honor clients privacy)
“I just wanted to thank you so much for the awesome painters you sent to our company picnic on August 12th! Everyone just loved them! They were so nice, friendly and patient with all! We hope to have you back next year!” - Anne
“All the feedback the picnic committee has heard in regards to the face painting has been great. I will definitely keep you in mind if I ever need to hire face painters again, or if I hear of anyone else who might, you can count on my referral” - Lisa
“Thank you so much for helping us with our School Carnival. The carnival was a very successful fund-raiser for the PTA. The carnival was a much bigger success than we could have hoped for. Your wonderful face painting made so many kids smile. Some of the children were even able to preserve their faces for school on Monday. Thank you so much for your extra efforts to make it to our planning meetings.” - Carrie
“I know Naomi to be an extremely talented artist and, to our pleasure, she is our permanent face painter & artist for all of our October events. She has standing lines all day on our weekend events. Consider yourselves lucky if she has offered to participate in your activities.” - Joe
“Via, meet Naomi! Naomi is the world’s best face/body painter. I can’t speak highly enough about her creativity, talents and professionalism.” - Krista
To see more of what they are saying and leave feed back about Time Honored Designs and Naomi, visit the Face book fan page at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Art-on-You-by-Time-Honored-Designs/177266138974052?ref=ts
