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Fall Events: 8 Creative Ways to Elevate Them with Goofy Faces

By Katy Siereveld | September 12, 2024 | Comments Off on Fall Events: 8 Creative Ways to Elevate Them with Goofy Faces

Fall Events: 8 Creative Ways to Elevate Them with Goofy Faces

As the crisp autumn air settles in and the leaves begin to turn, it’s the perfect time to plan your fall events and gatherings. From Halloween parties to harvest festivals, adding a unique and entertaining touch can elevate your event to a new level of fun. One fantastic way to do this is by hiring Goofy Faces caricature artists and face painters. These creative professionals offer a range of benefits that can make your event stand out:

8 Creative Ways to Elevate Your Fall Events with Goofy Faces Unique Entertainment:  Elevate your event with caricatures and face painting, offering a fun alternative to traditional activities like photo booths. Hire a Goofy Faces artist for as little as 2 hours to bring a creative flair to your gathering.

Engaging Experience: Watch as our caricature artists create artwork in real-time, drawing 10-15 faces per hour. Guests enjoy an interactive experience as their caricature or face paint design comes to life right before their eyes.

Memorable Keepsakes: Offer your guests custom caricature coasters or digital eSketches™ as unique mementos from your event, ensuring they leave with a lasting memory.

Versatile Options: Whether you need traditional caricatures, face painting, or something a bit different, we have options to match your event’s theme. And if you’re planning last minute, don’t worry—our artists are available for those urgent bookings too.

Wide Availability: With over 600 Goofy Faces artists across the country, you can find skilled professionals through our online directory no matter where your event is located.

Instant Results: Delight your guests with instant, color prints and a digital link to download their eSketch™ following your event.

Fun for All Ages: Our designs cater to both children and adults, ensuring everyone has a blast at your event.

Customizable Designs: Personalize your designs with themes or logos for a special touch. Contact us to learn how we can customize the paper to fit your event’s style.

Traditional Caricature

What are your options when booking? 

Traditional Caricatures:  Have long been a popular choice for live events because of their ability to bring smiles and laughter to singles & couples. Traditional caricature artists typically work with 8½ X 11 inch or 11 X 14 inch cardstock, drawing one or two faces per caricature. 

Face painting:  Children love the opportunity to get their faces painted and watch a skilled face painter work their magic. Whether it’s a spooky Halloween design or a whimsical fall-themed creation, face painting offers a fun and engaging experience for everyone.

eSketches™:  This innovative option allows our caricature artists to create live, color digital caricatures using an iPad, tablet, or other

Face Painting

digital systems. Guests can watch as their caricature comes to life on a large display screen, making the experience even more engaging. Most of our eSketch artists can draw around 7-9 faces per hour. After the event, you’ll receive a link to view and download

each eSketch™ created, allowing guests to keep a digital memory of their fun experience.

Caricature Coasters: Our talented artists can draw your guests’ caricature on a 4X4 inch heavy cardboard coaster in just 2 minutes. This unique keepsake not only provides entertainment but also serves as a practical and lasting memento from your event. For an extra touch, we can print a full-color logo, graphic, text, or image on one side of the coaster, ensuring your guests remember where they received their special gift. Caricature coasters are perfect for special events, and parties, and they can be printed instantly on 4X6 or 5X7 inch photo paper.

eSketches™

By incorporating these fun and interactive elements into your fall gatherings, you’ll create lasting memories and ensure that your guests have a great time. Start planning today and make your event the talk of the season! For more information and to book your artists, visit Goofy Faces and learn more.

Check out what our clients are saying about their experience with Goofy Faces: 

“Alex was great. He was fast and was busy the entire time. He is AWSOME!!!” – Sterling Estates 

“Nate did an excellent job. He was personable. He paid great attention to details. His pictures were really nice! I will have him back again” – K. Tamlin

Caricature Coasters

“Very professional and courteous. Received many compliments from everyone at the party! Very talented artist and extremely pleased with service!” – Maria H. 

“It was a premium experience for our guests and offered a great takeaway to remind them of our event!” – Kristen L.

“Had a great first experience with Goofy Faces. Our members loved the perk we offered of having their caricatures drawn, and Howard was absolutely fantastic. Will definitely book again and refer.” – Ben R. 

3 Fun Easter Celebrations from Around the World

By Bryon Scott | March 12, 2021 | Comments Off on 3 Fun Easter Celebrations from Around the World

Around the world and close to home Easter celebrations have many fun options!

Spring is in the air and that means Easter and other spring holidays are just around the corner. With the pandemic still looming, and some communities easing restrictions more than others, it’s important to stay safe while still celebrating the Easter holiday with your family and friends.

Two girls at an Easter Celebration or First Communion party showing traditional caricatures on sepia paper.

Make Easter and First Communion celebrations fun and memorable with caricature art.

Here are a few fun Easter celebration traditions from around the world, and some from closer to home that we think you’ll enjoy. As you plan your Easter observance this year, think about what elements you will include and how you will celebrate and remember this special day.

Easter Celebrations with Kites

When someone tells you to Go Fly a Kite – go to Bermuda at Easter! If you happen to be in Bermuda on Good Friday, look up, you’re likely to see thousands of colorful, handmade kites. Legend has it that the tradition began as a way to explain to school children about a soul’s ascension to Heaven.

Easter Celebrations with Fireworks!

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Is Zoom the Best Platform for Virtual Events? A Look at 8 Options

By Bryon Scott | January 26, 2021 |

With many conferencing platforms available, which is best for your upcoming virtual program?

Here at Goofy Faces, we know a lot about Zoom parties. Even before COVID our caricature artists were frequently drawing live, digital caricatures we call eSketches™ for virtual events on Zoom.

Zoom screenshare digital caricature drawing for virtual events

A caricature artist brings the fun to your virtual events!

Zoom is no longer the only game in town! Today there are many options to gather with family, friends and colleagues and customers online.  Since last March, our artists have been the featured entertainment at more than 100 virtual events! From birthday parties and grad parties to baby showers or retirement gatherings to employee appreciation events, virtual trade shows and team building events, we now have experience with many of the virtual meeting platforms available.

Online Programs Connect Us

Here’s a brief overview of some of the more popular video conferencing programs commonly used for virtual events, and when to incorporate fun, engaging caricature art into your events and celebrations! (more…)

Tips for your 2020 Holiday Party – have fun!

By Bryon Scott | November 20, 2020 |

In the past several years, Goofy Faces caricature artists have been the featured entertainment at dozens of family and company holiday parties. We were gaining quite a reputation as holiday party experts! In fact, this time of year we usually publish our favorite Holiday Party Planning Tips. See below for our tips as revised to reflect the realities of 2020 where some events will be in person and some will be online.

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These Two Companies Used Live Digital Caricatures to Promote their Brand

By Bryon Scott | October 22, 2020 |

Goofy Faces caricature artists add fun and flair to your corporate event – even at a distance!

How do you get people excited about attending your virtual corporate event or online user convention when the last thing they want to do is sit in front of a computer all day…again? Hire Goofy Faces to draw live, digital caricatures we call eSketches™! Companies have been using caricatures to build their brand for years, why stop now?

Success – Branding with Digital Caricatures

Hire a Goofy Faces artist to draw themed caricatures two days BEFORE you go live to get attendees excited about your event! (more…)

Talented and Quick – Goofy Faces Artists Bring the Fun!

By Robert Bauer | August 9, 2020 |
Wedding caricature of couple with masks

Keeping everyone safe at a wedding celebration, the artist draws from 6′ away.

Being in the event and entertainment business, our main goal is to make people smile. Throughout the stay-at-home orders, and even now as our favorite venues start to re-open, Goofy Faces caricature artists continue to delight and entertain – online or in person at weddings, birthdays and other celebrations. Either way we help make your event special, memorable and fun as we draw from a safe distance!

 

But don’t take our word for it. Here are some recent reviews from Zoom parties and outdoor events.

Caricature Artists Create Memorable Weddings, Birthdays and Baby Showers

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Top 10 Tips for Zoom Party Success!

By Robert Bauer | June 9, 2020 |

Many of us, well, many of you, may not have even heard of Zoom before March 2020. It’s a wonderful platform for sure – if you know how to do a Zoom party well!

Some of our Goofy Faces artists are Zoom Party experts and have been using it to draw remote digital caricatures, or eSketches™, for a while. Along the way, we have learned how to make your Zoom events, birthday parties, work meetings, etc., flow more smoothly with fewer hiccups and so everyone has a good time!

General Zoom Tips – aka Zoom Etiquette

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Two “Virtual” Ways to Boost Employee & Family Morale Right Now

By Robert Bauer | March 19, 2020 |

In the days of virtual and remote everything, keeping morale up has never been more critical! Whether it’s your work family or your home family, doing something fun and unique, like a get together with a live (but remote!) caricature artist can really lift their spirits!

Caricature artist drawing on tablet eSketch at trade show

Goofy Faces artists eSketches™ in person or virtually!

With technology today, there are many ways to meet online. Create an account on Zoom, Google Hangout, Skype, GoToMeeting, Facetime or GoogleDuo. Most of these services have free options depending on the size of your group and how long your online event will last.

How do you keep it light and fun amid difficult times? Hire a Goofy Faces Caricature Artist to draw live remote caricatures! All you need is a laptop, tablet or smartphone with internet access as well as a color printer. Our artist engages with each person while drawing their caricature digitally, called an eSketch™ – in as little as six minutes!  eSketches™ are drawn and colored digitally on a tablet or digital drawing pad. After showing the person their finished caricature, the artist uploads the final art to a Dropbox so you can access it from your device, view and print on the spot!

In addition, the host gets the digital files of all the images. Think of the possibilities! Use them for celebrating birthdays, employee recognition, or as something fun to send to your customers and friends. Sales staff like to use them in their email signature!

Keeping Morale Up at Work

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Caricature Art – A Captivating Way to Grow Your Business!

By Robert Bauer | February 18, 2020 |

Over the past few years, Goofy Faces caricature artists have become an integral part of many company business plans. Yes, business plans!

Caricature artist making digital drawings with eSketches

No longer just the purview of zoos, amusement parks and family vacations (but we do those well!), caricature art is a truly unique service that can help a business stand out at a trade show or industry convention. Live digital caricatures, like eSketches™, for example, are increasingly popular for brands to incorporate into their trade show booths because they attract so much attention! (more…)

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