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Facepainting Event – NCAA Basketball Hoop Fest

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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Bronx Zoo snake search

One of the things we all enjoy about facepainting at the Bronx Zoo is the obvious one – that it is full of animals. The wild within the city. It’s not the same as facepainting at an amusement park, which is where I started out. Occasionally we get to see cool stuff like a baby gorilla sleeping at night curled up on piled leaves. In the first years that we were facepainting for events at the Bronx Zoo they would have us there for a Reptile Day when they’d bring the biggest snake they had out to weigh it in an annual ceremony.

So the snake that got loose and which was heard round the world, apparently, has been found. New York is safe again. Being family members of the zoo, here is the email we got once the snake was found calling for entries to the Name That Snake contest.

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Where was she? You probably pondered that question several times this week with family, friends and co-workers.

We’re so glad to say our cobra is safe and secure – in fact, she never left the Reptile House.

We thank everyone who has given us support. Now, will you help us give her a name?

Give it your best shot – submit an entry today.

Our Egyptian cobra went missing from an off-exhibit enclosure in the zoo’s Reptile House on March 25th. After a 6-day search, we located her on Thursday safe and sound in a non-public, remote corner of the Reptile House.

In those 6 short days, our cobra captured the imagination of the world.

We have joined the New York Daily News as we ask you to submit your favorite name.

Submit a name for the cobra today!

We’re accepting submissions until 1 p.m. Monday – then we’ll announce the 5 finalists and put it to a vote. The winning name will be announced on Thursday.

Good luck!

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