Science On Your Face — World Science Festival 2014

Jun4

We were back at one of our favorite New York events this past weekend: The Ultimate Science Street Fair of the World Science Festival. I mean, where else would you ever get the opportunity to turn someone into a Higgs Boson? Or a Bunson Burner? For an adventurous artist like me, this is facepainting at it’s most fun. Here are some of my favorite faces from this year’s event:

: Higgs Boson

: Bunson Burner

: Einstein

: Newton and the Big Apple

: Earth Science Teacher

: Evolution

: Atom

: Our Galaxy on her Face

: Mars Rover landing

: Robotics

: Synthetic Human

: Climate Change

: Solar Eclipse

: Curved Space Time

: First Woman on the Moon

: Cave Art – painted by Phil

: Pollination

: Pollination

: Milky Way Galaxy

: Nebula and Octopus

: Nebula

: She’s flying Ben Franklin’s Kite

: Mars Rover

: StoryFace: Li Chi Slays the Dragon

: Chemistry

: Particle Accelerator

: Atom on a Science Teacher

: Turtles All the Way Down

This year the festival was focusing on robotics, weather and astronomy. I’m enough of a science geek that I love collecting the stories and images for new science faces each year.

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NHL Playoffs 2014 — Face Painting Gallery

May23

We did our first event for this year’s Hockey Playoffs at the NHL Store on 6th Ave. at 47th St. in Manhattan. I was there for the pre-game celebration for Game 3 of the NY Rangers vs the Montreal Canadiens at Madison Square Garden, sponsored by Reebok.

I don’t follow this sport, so instead of telling people the story of their faces as I painted I was asking questions —who’s your favorite player? How did you become a fan? — and using those ideas as inspiration.

#transformationsny

Drop the puck!

Here are a few more from the second event at the NHL Store. I particularly wanted to try this “Drop the puck!” idea if I got someone who wasn’t rooting for either team, but still loved playoff hockey.

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Elephant Face Painting Gallery — Run for the Wild at the Bronx Zoo 2013

Apr22

It’s Earth Day today, and a beautiful morning. We are getting ready for this spring’s Run for the Wild at the Bronx Zoo on April 26, an annual family event in which runners gather early in the morning at the zoo to run and raise funds for all the work that the Wildlife Conservation Society does to preserve the environment around the world. The facepainting will be free for participants in this event, from 7:00 – 9:30 am. The annual Run for the Wild events are great fun and a unique way to enjoy the zoo while helping wildlife. Please come and enjoy a wonderful morning at the zoo!

Each year the Run for the Wild features an iconic animal as “poster child”, and this is the second year to feature the elephant. Elephant populations are currently under direct threat from poaching (65% of the African Forest Elephant population have been killed between 2005 and 2012), and the WCS and other organizations are pushing to protect them both by their efforts in the field and by working to enact laws to ban ivory trading. Learn more: 96 Elephants: A Killing at the Bai

Here are some photos of faces from the 2013 Run for the Wild.