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