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New York Knicks — Basketball Face and Body Painting Gallery

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Knicks_FaceOnWebsite_Screen shot 2013-05-01 at 11.08.59 PM-cropThe New York Knicks went to the NBA playoffs in 2013 and our Transformations artists were part of a number of special playoff events, including body painting 5 fans for the #CrazyNYK Fan Race to Times Square and painting the public for special Knicks events at Chase Bank locations around NYC. basketballKnicks_sketches1_130501I watched a game using the dvr pause button to sketch shots and dunks to explore face designs with players in action, to add to the stadium style faces we paint for sports events with big logos and team colors. I also adapted the NY skyline design I do for one real Crazy Fan who showed up in head-to-toe Knicks regalia, and he wound up as the poster child for the events on the Knicks website.

 

NY Knicks Crazy Fan Face Gallery:

After the first few events where we painted faces for Crazy Fan contests, we got a call asking if we could body paint 5 fan contestants for a race from Madison Square Garden to Times Square to win playoff tickets. In addition to my photos here there is a slideshow the Knicks posted with photos from the full process.

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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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