Patricia Silver (aka Patty the Clown) is an award-winning songwriter, instrumentalist, record producer and author of the best-seller "Face Painting". Her critically-acclaimed Sphere Clown Band has wowed audiences on TV and in festivals and theatres across Canada, in the U.S.A., the U.K.., Russia, Europe, and Asia. She has been putting smiles on kids faces through her face painting and clown antics since 1974. She lives in Toronto and is the proud mother of Peeper the Clown (on the Face Painting cover).