Here are a collection of faces painted by one of our artists at a few recent events. Jennifer Wade has been painting her own uniquely creative faces with my company for more than 15 years. She brings to our Transformation approach a refined color sense and a method of stippling and layering colors to quickly achieve a complex background and create her original scenic designs. In our method, all of our artists are encouraged to develop their own designs and style, and Jennifer is an accomplished designer, bringing a great deal of enthusiasm to the challenge of creating new faces for special theme events like the World Science Festival or the NBA Draft Fan Zone. She is a fine art painter and an accomplished craft artist — a future post will showcase the work she does creating Ceramic Tile Murals with seniors and children. Jennifer is also a highly skilled art therapist and absolutely wonderful dealing with the public and getting kids and adults to join us in the sense of creative adventure that is at the heart of Transformations.
I first brought together a company of artists because I wanted to have the ability to impact large events by filling them with painted faces, and I couldn’t do that alone. Working with this group of artists all these years, however, has been the source of so many additional benefits as we have come to share this adventure together. Encouraging and inspiring each other, supporting each other’s non-facepainting endeavors, playing together, and commiserating with each other about that one rotten customer who wants to ruin a beautiful day of painting. I believe it is this sense of camaraderie that keeps our company together today through all these years.
painted at our Bronx Zoo concession
From the Science Festival: the extinct Golden Toad of Costa Rica's cloud rainforest
Science Festival: Albatross
Science Festival: an anthropological design based on an ancient piece of pottery from Guanajuato, Mexico
At the NBA Draft Day Fan Zone
NBA - Chicago Bulls logo
At the Coney Island Aquarium
A "Day of the Dead" design painted at a school's Mexican Fiesta
another Mexican Fiesta design
Jennifer's foto of me painting the school's Vice Principal at the Fiesta
for examples of another of our artists’ faces see: https://thestorybehindthefaces.com/2011/05/03/facepainting-event-modern-art-faces-in-philly-pt-1-britt/