Spring Break 2012 Facepainting- March 19th and 20th

Pink Unicorn

First attempt at a Clone Trooper, not too shabby!

Venom!

Princess Tiara on Laura

Butterfly and Tiger, excellent friends!

Sunset Butterfly

Pink cheek butterfly, to match the flowers in her hair

Spring Break 2012 Facepainting- March 12th and 13th

Monday and Tuesday at the Kids Market can be summed up easily: SO MANY UNICORNS!! Nothing could bring me more joy than painting these celestial beings. Remember readers, loving unicorns will keep you young!

This little girl had a heart tattoo on her head, so this became a unicorn in love.

Beautiful Butterfly by Me

Unicorn under the silver moon, this scene was really fun to create! The little girl requested that I use ALL the sparkles, and I was happy to oblige!

Beautiful Princess

Butterfly Sisters

Little Tribal Fair on a leaf!

Voyage to Space with Claire and Hugo!

In the weeks leading up to Spring Break, Claire and Hugo and I had been working on gear and plans for our rocket adventure into space. With materials mostly supplied by Urban Source on Main street (one of Hugo's favorite places to go) the results were absolutely other worldly. We made a layout of the galaxy, helmets, a rocket ship plan and a REAL rocket ship, named SPARKY. 

The kids managed to take the ship out for a spin, but in a disastrous turn of events Claire and Hugo became stranded on an alien planet. Luckily, they managed to scrounge up the supplies they needed to fix the ship, and with a little help from a alien (played by myself) the repairs were a success (and in the process I managed to develop an alien language which I was required to speak in for the better part of an hour..I would describe it as some sort of combination between robot talk, kitty mews and french). One final note on the subject, Space Adventures RULE!

The galaxy looks fun, if not rather hazardous at times. Looking forward to visiting the hummus planet that Hugo added near the top of the rocket ship!

SPARKY 1 rocket ship plans

Monkey came too, an old tea box served well as a helmet for this guy!

Rocket ship!

Adorable Rocketeers safe and sound on home planet, whew!

In other Claire and Hugo Funtime News, face painting was a GO! These kids love getting their faces painted (which makes me an excellent fit as their nanny), and the only trade off is that I let them paint my face in return.

BATMAN!

Butterfly Claire

Too cute!

My wonderful face painting done by Claire (she is really getting good with her shapes and swirls!)

 

Until next time!

(or as the aliens say "Nizz Twee Nezz Tie!")

-Beebop

Spring Break 2012 Facepainting- March 10th and 11th

 

 

The Party Kids are back at the Kids Market on Granville Island for spring break, come on down and get your face painted!

Nicholas Frenette, the artist himself!

After not being at the Kids Market for a few months, it is so nice to be back and to see all the wonderful kids market staff. It feels like coming home; fondly familiar and wonderfully cozy We had many lovely and adorable customers over the past two days and that's just the beginning. As usual, we were getting great ideas from the kids on what they wanted to have painted on their faces. A spy, angels, a clown face (to match my own!) and a half wolf half robot to name a few. Enjoy! (Sorry the images are so small!)

Batman face paint by Nicholas

Princess face paint by Nicholas

Wolverine face paint by Nicholas

Tiger Sisters, by Beebop and Nicholas

Spiderman by Nicholas

Princess by Nicholas

Winter Butterfly by Beebop

SPY with microphone by Brenna

Angel Face by Nicholas

Pink Angel Face by Nicholas

Clown and Robotwolf by Beebop and Nicholas

 Puppy by Beebop

Fairy Princess by Nicholas

Ice Cat by Nicholas

Happy 27th Birthday Kids Market!

This weekend the Kids Market on Granville Island celebrated their 27th Birthday. I was invited to celebrate and face paint and I had a great time! Balloons, cake and face painting, what more could you ask for at a birthday party? Tons of smiling faces? Well, we got that too... check it out!

Adorable party princess!

What can I say? I love parties!

Kid's Market rainbow!

Party on dudes!

Love,

Beebop

On the first day of Halloween...

Halloween scene by Nicholas

On the first day of Halloween, I  dressed up as the bride of Frankenstein! Each year, my cousin's throw an amazing Halloween bash at their home in Victoria. With a ghoulish spread of Halloween themed food (I ate all the plasma dip, because it was really brie cheese!) and the outrageous decorations (I love the broom outside that moved on it's own, mingling through the crowd) there is no better party around. This year it took place the weekend before Halloween weekend, and was the perfect way to kick off the costume craziness.

Dead Bride, coming through!

My cousin Craig and I

 I was very lucky this Halloween season to be invited back to work at Just Imagine, one of my first jobs when I moved to Vancouver. It was there that I learned the art of costuming, and I love going back to see the amazing staff and check out their awesome stock. Let's just say, I added some pretty fantastic costumes to my tickle trunk this time around, and am now the proud owner of a Supergirl costume (pictures to come!!). Thanks JI!

While working at Just Imagine I tended to favor the 'Halloween Mini Mouse' look

The next few days of Halloween were filled with adorable and hilarious kids, who were overjoyed to be my guinea pigs for some spooky face paint designs. I ended off the week of nannying for Claire and Hugo by painting Claire, Hugo, and their mom Emily's faces for the Halloween haunt at Claire's school. They are such a great family, and I always feel so blessed to be a part of their family festivities.

Princess Witch design by Me on Claire

Wolf design by Me on Kai

Blue Spiderman on Hugo

Spiderman on Hugo (this kid is addicted to face painting!)

Claire and Hugo with their mom Emily

I spent the Friday of Halloween face painting with Cecily and Nicholas, and the results were amazing! Nicholas painted a Halloween scene using the beautiful Cecily as a model. Then it was off to Cecily's house for an impromptu Halloween photo shoot. Most excellent Halloween times!

Saturday and Sunday I had a gig balloon twisting at the Osaka Supermarket in Park Royal. It was such a treat to hand out the balloons to the kids, and add a little more wonder to their Halloween. So many balloons, and so many smiles!

Spider and Pumpkin balloon design by me (just for the Osaka event!)

While I was as Park Royal, Cecily and Nicholas manned the fort at the Kids Market on Granville Island for their annual Halloweenie! Thanks for your hard work guys!
 

Nicholas and Cecily

Cecily and Rainbow the Dragon

Cecily all dressed up for face painting!

I also got to wear my I Love Lucy Pinup costume on the Saturday night, and it turned out better than I had hoped. Not everyone knew who I was (some people need to brush up on the classics!) but I felt satisfied that I had pulled off Lucille Ball in a very Brenna way, just as I had hoped. 

Lucy!

On the last day of Halloween, October 31st, I had a little shindig of my own and invited over some off my good friends to take pictures, listen to records and gorge ourselves on candy. The night ended in a costume competition, with Cecily's costume, Schrodinger's Cat, being the winner!

Oscar the Grouch, Henchmen from Venture Bros. and Schrodinger's Cat

 This Halloween was absolutely fun and costume-change filled. The costumes were relentless and it was so great to see everyone get into the spirit, but what else is Halloween for than to dress up and commune with ghosts! Until next time, 

Costume Kisses and Dressup Dreams, 

Beebop the Clown