StoryFaces and Body Painting at NYSATA 2013

Nov26

At this year’s New York State Art Teacher’s Association Conference (NYSATA) I had the opportunity to do a presentation on my StoryFaces Mask Arts programs, which included performing a few stories from the assembly programs I do in schools, and we went through “Designing Tribal Masks Project”, an example of one of my classroom workshop programs, along with this sample handout: .StoryFaces_MaskArts_TribalMaskProject_agostinoarts

As the tiger leapt through the walls of fire, he began to burn with a flame of his own…

For one of their Friday After Dark workshops I offered “Face and Body Painting 101”, so during the day I also painted a model in the exhibit area as an example. It’s a design of familiar elements, from my story “The Tiger That Went to the House of the Sun”, which I would be telling that afternoon in the StoryFaces session. The open lobby area we were in was too chilly for my volunteer model, so I limited the painting to from 10:00 am to 12:30.

Face and Body Painting 101 at NYSATA

We also had a couple of volunteer models along with 14 participants for the Face and Body painting workshop that night, and I think everyone enjoyed themselves.

Learn more about my school programs at:

Christopher Agostino’s StoryFaces

StoryFaces — Mask Art Workshops

Halloween Face Painting 2013 — Gallery #zombieattack

Oct16

‘Tis the season… We do a lot of Halloween and Fall festival events this time of year, and folks seem even more appreciative of, and open to, our creativity as Halloween approaches. It’s a good time to develop new face ideas and expand on older ones. Our approach is to surprise each person we paint with an original design just for them, only asking if they want to be “nice” or “spooky” — or matching their costume if they have one. Here’s a gallery of some of my favorites as I paint this season, and I’ll add more as we go (gallery updated 10/23/13). Mostly they are the spooky ones, but there’s a few nice ones as well. Check out our event schedule on the News/Schedule page and come and be transformed at Boo at the Zoo and our other Fall Festival and Halloween events.

: Zombie Attack

: Fancy Zombie

: Vampire Bite

: Vampire and Her Victim

: Tropical Duo

: Torn Face

: Torn Face – 1st try

: Spirit Mask

: a la Georgia Okeeffe 2

: Monet’s Garden

: Demon Mouth

: Bloody Mary

: Zombie Hair

: Zombie Attack

: She better run…she didn’t know her sister was a Werewolf

: Vampire Queen

: Vampire and Hungry Vampire

: Vampire by Lorraine

: Goblin Spider Woman

: Baby Snow Leopard

: Dancing Skeleton

: Picasso Zombie

: Mutant Zombie

: Mutant Zombie

: Octopus Monster

: Demon From Hell

: Medusa

: a la Georgia O’keeffe

Learn about all that we do at: agostinoarts.com

#ZombieAttack — Halloween Gallery

Oct1

The season of transformation is upon us and the zombies are coming. Enjoy this month of facepainting mayhem, culminating in the National Holiday for Facepainters, Mask Makers and Makeup Artists, aka Halloween. Check out our event schedule on the News/Schedule page and come and be transformed at Boo at the Zoo and our other Fall Festival and Halloween events.