January 11, 2017
#favoritefaces2017 #transformationsny
Starting here with some of my favorite playful faces of the year and examples from Art On Your Face events, followed by faces from StoryFaces performances at festivals, schools and libraries. Below is a second set of photos with more cartooning explorations, animal faces, Halloween and holiday faces.
- Celebration faces
- Gymnastics Camp
- Horses in Snow
- Godzilla attacks
- NYC Parks events…
- Hi-Line Halloween
- Guest star
- Face by Miguel
- Lizard Nose
- Metro PCS Alien
- Free Arts events…
- Smile faces…
- NYC Rainbow
- Modigliani at…
- The Jewish Museum
- Modigliani
- Modigliani
- Modigliani
- Zakanitch exhibit at…
- HudsonRiver Museum
- O’keeffe
- Monet
- Klee
- Cezanne
- Picasso
- StoryFaces at…
- Tampa-Hillsborough
- … Festival
- Jackson,MI StoryFest
- Clemens Center
- School Shows
- “The Storyteller…
- …and the Magic Fish”
During events I mostly take photos of faces related to designs and techniques I’m working on, so I’ll have records of multiple versions of faces like the “Eaten By…” ones to refer to as I develop them further. This year included continuing to play with putting a cartoon of someone onto their own face, like in the “Smile” faces, plus cartoons of people as vampires and zombies. Our company project in 2017 was to create “Animals on Faces”, using the face as a canvas (rather than as a mask), like in the “3 Giraffes” or “Rainbow Macaw” faces. And throughout the year I worked to think more like a painter as I painted faces. Fueled by the artface explorations we do, I work to put what I learn from copying artists like Matisse and Modigliani into all the facepainting, to include qualities related to using the Aquacolor make-up more like a painter might: exploring surface effects, for example, like in the four “Alien” faces here.
- Aliens…
- Chased by…
- …Zombie Brother
- Cat On His Mind
- Chased by Dinosaurs
- Chef
- Clown Mouth
- Dream Dancer
- Dental conference…
- Happy Teeth
- Alien Warrior
- Super Me!
- Eagle NYC
- Dragon
- Eaten by Dragon
- Eaten by Dragon
- Eaten By Dragon
- Eaten By Frog
- Mouth Monster
- Giraffes…
- Cheetahs
- 4th of July NYC
- Tropical…
- Fish
- Rainbow Macaws
- Hummingbird
- Polar Bears
- Red Riding Hood
- Floating Skull
- Moon Goddess
- Riding Pegasus
- Florals…
- Snake Stripes
- Snow Leopard
- Turtle
- Vampires…
- Zombies…
- Abominable Snowman
- Santas…
- New Year Spirit Mask: the final face I painted in 2017
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Related articles
- Christopher Agostino’s Anniversary Gallery: 40 Years of #FunOnFaces
- StoryFaces: The Power of a Story (thestorybehindthefaces.com)
- VIDEO: StoryFaces at Jackson Storyfest
- Art On Your Face — Gallery
- Henri Matisse The Cut-Outs — Transformations Gallery
- Transformations Facepainting — about the company