In a creative slump? Throw some paint on it and tell that slump to get the heck out of here!

These 40 crazy and fun face painting portraits on 500px are a great example of a way to try turn your portraits into something strange and different. To stop posing your models the same way, making them up the same way, doing their hair the same way, photographing them in the same light and with the same expression.

Pardon my French, but screw that! Try something new this week and have a blast while you’re at it. Whether it’s face paint splatter, ultraviolet art, or an amazing pattern created by a local professional you hire, adding some paint to your portraits can help you bust through that slump and get creative again.

The Eye Of Colors by Tracy Parker on 500px.com

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DarkRed by Daniel Nanescu on 500px.com

Tribal by James Moxley on 500px.com

body paint by Jacek Wo?niak on 500px.com

Nepal  by Daniel Rubio on 500px.com

Lava by Stanislav Istratov on 500px.com

Astral Deity by Wilmark Jolindon on 500px.com

Those eyes by Francesco Rizzato on 500px.com

Untitled by Alexander Smirnov on 500px.com

Cora 1 by Kavak Agir on 500px.com

RGB feelings  by Petko Petkov on 500px.com

Violet by Balázs Tóth on 500px.com

Candy Skull Make-Up by Jacek Wo?niak on 500px.com

The Mask by Alexander Khokhlov on 500px.com

Se lena by Anna Bushueva on 500px.com

War Paint by Albert Pedrosa on 500px.com

dark pink by Benjamin Hartmann on 500px.com

Electric: beauty portrait of a model by Arsenii Gerasymenko on 500px.com

B&G .. by abdullah mohammed on 500px.com

Dia De Los Muertos by Robert Stebler on 500px.com

Constellation Of Beauty by Maxim  Guselnikov on 500px.com

Giedre by Damien Mohn on 500px.com

American Beauty by Faye Marie on 500px.com

Colorful by Ricardo Williams on 500px.com

P by Julia N on 500px.com

Skull Boy by Tim Paza May on 500px.com

Hypnose by Alexander Khokhlov on 500px.com

La Catrina by Nick Chao on 500px.com

Alina by Pavel Obvintsev on 500px.com

Pulse by Alexander Khokhlov on 500px.com

White skin by Sidsel Worm on 500px.com

halloween make up sugar skull by Olena Zaskochenko on 500px.com

Ukraine by Olena Zaskochenko on 500px.com

Fijona by Hans-Peter Jakob on 500px.com

UV portrait by Pavel Reband on 500px.com

Black & Powder ! by Mohammad Quwaie on 500px.com

Day of the Dead by Lauren Bates on 500px.com

beauty by Sebastien Degardin on 500px.com

Dark beauty by Dmitriy  Sandratsky 2DStudio.com.ua on 500px.com

If you have your own face painting portraits, upload them to 500px and share them in the comments! And if there’s a face paint portrait on 500px that you think should have made this list, link us to that as well.