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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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Transformation Facepainting Company — Jennifer’s Faces 2011

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/

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