New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

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.