Painting faces for a family event celebrating the NCAA Basketball Playoffs gave me a chance to do a few more face designs working with putting human figures onto the face, something I’ve been focusing on this past couple of years. Two of us were at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ on March 26, 2011. We were outside, during the day, and it was unseasonably cold – really, really cold – but they still got a good crowd and we stayed busy. The Prudential Center was hosting a playoff game the next day, so we offered everyone the chance to get a face for their favorite team – however most of the kids didn’t know any college teams. So if they didn’t want a basketball face we just asked if they’d like to be nice or spooky and surprised them.
Of the few basketball faces I got to paint, these 3 were my favorites, more for the direction I went in regarding placement on the face than for the execution. At 45 degrees or so, I was just happy my makeup didn’t freeze and had to accept that it wasn’t going on the way it might have under better conditions.
The Prudential Center is home to the NJ Devils, so we got some hockey fans, too.
One of our "logo" designs, which I painted on this kid early at the event to draw attention and get more kids interested in coming over.
Moon and Stars is a favorite motif of mine.
This girl asked to be "very spooky" - the Vampire Night Queen
We'll be painting a whole day of penguins soon for the Bronx Zoo, so I am looking for new variations. This one came from a foto of a few standing on the edge of an ice flow, with one looking over the edge.
The gallery on our company website talks about some of ways we think of face designs to be able to generate variation within familiar motifs like penguins and vampires: http://www.agostinoarts.com/face.htm
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