The Amazing Face Gallery

You are amazing — and so is your face.

You can be anything — and so can your face.

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My explorations of this “face on a face” imagery came as we started incorporating cartooning techniques into the faces we paint at events — particularly for clients for which it was helpful to be able to put characters and action scenes on faces (see Knicks, Citibank’s Winter Olympics event, The World Science Festival galleries). For the Summit Wellness Fair, for example, I would ask a kid questions about what they like to do, or want to be, and then put them into a picture of that activity on their face. Eventually I used the technique to tell this story about how I learned to facepaint, which I present as part of my StoryFaces performances and in arts-in-education workshops. Given that the idea of putting a face onto someone’s mouth is not a new one in facepainting (I have a traditional Chinese Opera design which uses this trick for a frog face that I’ve been imitating for years), I’m kinda annoyed with myself that it took me this long to start having so much fun with it.

These are some examples of the Amazing Faces I’ve painted.

: I sing like an angel

: On Safari in Africa

: Touchdown!

: Slam Dunk!

: Gymnastics Camp

: Young Scientist at World Science Festival

: Winning the Stanley Cup

: Olympics Figure Skating

: My Gold Medals

: I Love to Sing

: I Love Flowers

: NY Dental Show

: NY Dental Show

: Socrates Summer Solstice

: Kite Festival

: Activity Fair

: She’s a Witch

: Demon Mouth

: Chased by monsters…

: Santa Mouth

: Tennis Star

: Tennis Ball

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Animal Surprises at the Bronx Zoo — Facepainting Gallery

Jun8

We had a team of 6 artists at the Bronx Zoo for a company’s family outing this past weekend, which gave me a chance to do some more specifically animal and nature themed facepainting then I get to do on most of my gigs these days. Although at our zoo facepainting concessions we post a list of about 40 animals for people to choose from (just a list — no photos), at our special events there we prefer to be more adventurous by surprising people with the animal we turn them in to. We ask each participant if they want to be “nice” or “spooky” and then surprise them with the transformation. Here and some of the faces I painted myself over the 4 hour event. (You can click on the photos to see the names I give the face designs.)