arthur ashe kids day « Agostino Arts

by Christopher Agostino #storyfaces

Transformations 3.0 at the U.S. Open. For our second year of painting tennis faces for the wonderful Arthur Ashe Kids Day event that begins US Open week here in NY we focused on using cartoon techniques to paint images of tennis players on people’s faces. We had twelve artists at this year’s event, and painted a lot of faces. Most of these are my own examples, in which I was painting a caricature of each person onto their face in action playing tennis, plus some playful ideas like the ball being hit by a racket.

: Heeeeelp!

: Tennis anyone?

: Backhand

: Tennis-nado

: Smash

: Face by Miguel

: Face by Miguel

2012 event gallery: Face Painting at the U.S. Open
About the Transformations 3.0 approach: bringing themes to life through art on faces https://thestorybehindthefaces.com/transformations-3-0/
Serena Williams, Billie Jean King join Michelle Obama to promote youth tennis (thehill.com)
10 things to know for U.S. Open tennis (rep-am.com)

We had ten facepainters at the US Open Arthur Ashe Kids Day on August 25, 2012 — and we’ll be back there with another team of transformation artists on September 9 for the finals. Here are a few photos from Arthur Ashe Day — and we only have a few, the day was too busy for taking photographs — including a couple of my silhouette images and several of the portrait type figures that Jennifer has been painting.

Come see us and be painted on September 9 at the Tennis Center.

UPDATE: **Unfortunately, they canceled our part of the September 9 event, because bad weather and rain during the previous week pushed the men’s finals from Sunday the 9th to Monday.