Holiday Party

Holiday Party Entertainment.  By that my Client means Chanukah and Christmas Celebrations for his Office.  Two Holidays.











Feels like there's at least one Spiderman at each Party.  Any type of Party, and Spiderman shows up.  He must be very popular:





and the Party continues.  This girl wanted to be a Present:















This one was interesting.  I had designed it quickly at the end of a Chanukah Party last year.  Because a woman wanted just a quick Something when I was supposed to be packing up already.  I had quickly made just a few lovely strokes, and called it The Eternal Flame, something that felt right for Chanukah Face Painting.  So when a man came by at this Holiday Party (not Jewish), and requested the Eternal Flame from my list of choices, I told him that it represents Keeping the Flame of Hope Alive.

  It felt like a beautiful thing that this man wanted one. But I just had a general idea about it, so I looked it up on Wikipedia while preparing this Post.  Here's a quote from Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_flame

 The eternal flame was a component of the Jewish religious rituals performed in the Tabernacle and later in the Temple in Jerusalem, where a commandment required a fire to burn continuously upon the Outer Alter.  Modern Judaism continues a similar tradition by having a sanctuary lamp, the ner tamid, always lit above the ark in the synagogue.  After World War II, such flames gained meaning as a reminder of the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust.  EndQuote.




After the Party, I saw the man (still happily wearing his Eternal Flame) in the Subway Station.

 Still some more designs I created at this Holiday Party.  Some of them are very simple, and I like that ~ Sort of the Sumi-e of Face Painting.  If it's painted skillfully, that's all that's needed:












Happy Holiday Everybody ~

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Spiderman

These faces that I painted at a recent event      
show the sort of flexibility that you'd want    
an Artist to have at your Party.  
Wanting to make sure that the guests are having Fun, I try to accommodate their requests    
and also be sensitive to their comfort.

Here are three boys who requested "Spiderman", a very popular request.

The first one shows an older boy who can understand what we're doing ~ he wouldn't be upset if I painted his whole face:



The second one shows a younger boy who wanted the same thing, but would have been uncomfortable if I painted right up to his eyes:



The third one shows a very young boy who wanted Spiderman on his face.  Since I felt that he didn't know what he was going to experience, I let him see what I was doing by painting on his Arm before painting on his face.  I alternated back and forth between the two areas to communicate the new experience to him:



I hope that I am able to bring good experiences to people.

to hire Artist Alison G :
optidust@gmail.com
(516)579-4706