The Giant Squid
I was back at the NY Aquarium at Coney Island for an event this morning for the first in a few years, and that meant painting again some of the more unusual sea creatures we have worked out faces for over the years. We painted a significant number of adults as well as kids, and I was very glad when a men sat down at the end of the end and asked me to make him “spooky”, thus allowing me to turn him into one of my favorites, the Giant Squid — a face that just doesn’t work as well on a kid.
Sea Lions
Laughing Gulls
Lionfish
The Giant Squid
Here’s one of my “Every Face” videos of faces at the Aquarium a few years back:
And tomorrow I get to go even further off the usual menu of facepaint designs as we will be turning people into DNA, Isaac Newton, Moon Shots and such at our fourth year painting faces for the World Science Festival Street Fair at Washington Square Park.
DNA
Isaac Newton Discovers Gravity
Rocket Shot
Man on the Moon
Love the “Giant Squid” design, when I read the title I first thought “no way can you make a squid look good on a persons face” — so I was very happy to be proven wrong!!
Why do you think the “Giant Squid” face painting design doesn’t work as well on chlidren as it does on adults?
Partly because on a kid it wouldn’t be “giant”, it would be kid-sized. Also because it is a relatively outrageous or wacky thing to paint on someone, and I think it means more to push an adult that far off the norm than to achieve that with a kid. I prefer putting my stranger conceptions on an adult, or teen or older kids.
i painted the Giant Squid face again today at the World Science Festival, this time on an attractive adult woman, and it worked for her to, I think.
Cool, that makes sense 🙂 It’s also interesting – the reasons why artists choose their designs depending on the persons age/skin color/face shape etc