Party Caricatures

Include NYSKETCHES caricature artists at your next party! Our caricature artists come fully prepared with easel, drawing materials, and a smiling face to draw all of your guests. Caricatures provide excellent branding opportunities for corporate events. Hiring a caricature artist is an excellent way to encourage comraderie among colleagues & clients. Our caricature artists can also draw caricatures directly on a t-shirt! Finishing touches are also available to protect the caricature sketches. Check out our BLOG for more caricature samples at events.

Black and White Face: 18-20 people/hour
Black and White Body with Theme: 12 people/hour
Color Face: 12 people/hour
Color Body with Theme: 8-10 people/hour (around 6 people/hr. young & fidgety ones!)

Below, you may view NYSKetches' caricaturists in action, for samples at recent event, check out our BLOG!
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Finishing Touches

Custom gift wrap to match your event.
Choose from Mattes, Tubes, Thin Trim Frames, bags, cellophane, ribbon, boxes, bows…
Let NYSKETCHES create spectacular gifts for you.
Contact us for a price list.

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Live Event Paintings

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Live Wedding Painting at Summer Tented Wedding		Live Wedding Painting at Spring Derby Wedding
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Event Murals

		NYSketches founding artist Rebecca Miller will come to your event and paint a mural in vibrant colors, inviting guests to stop to have their portrait added to the mural throughout the event. Event Murals include a preliminary design phase in which Rebecca will work with you to incorporate branding concepts, event logos, or slogans. Event Murals are completely custom and can be created in any size, and are suitable for a one day event, or multi day event.
Event Mural for Aspen Themed Holiday Party		See our BLOG for more photos of this event
		After the event, the mural is yours to keep, and you may use its image for promotional purposes. Event Murals are a great way to commemorate a corporate sponsored event in and provide interactive artistic entertainment in which attendees can participate. Event Murals are great for holiday parties, team building events, sporting events, fashion shows, movie openings, store openings, and product launches.
Rebecca painting guests portrait with onlookers...
Event Mural for BizBash Trade Show		Trade Show Attendee Posing with Event Mural Portrait
Notable New Yorkers Promo Event Mural		Passover Seder/ Dinner Party Event Mural

Henna Artists

Temporary Tattoos

Our tattoo artists will come to your event, and adorn your party guests with dazzling temporary tattoos (last 3-7) days, resist water, & can be removed with rubbing alcohol). We use hypoallergenic temporary tattoo ink and body glitter, made especially for the skin used by makeup artists.

We offer three types of temporary tattoo techniques, each of which have unique benefits:

NEW GLITTER TATTOOS!!! Our tattoo artists have a new trick up their sleeves- GLITTER TATTOOS! Your guests can choose from various stencil designs and over thirty glitter colors for their unique glitter tattoo. Glitter tattoos last seven days. Custom name or logo tattoo stencils can be made for marketing events, bar/bat mitzvahs, sweet sixteens, weddings.

HANDPAINTED TEMPORARY TATTOOS: NYSketches tattoo artists will handpaint virtually any design of choice! With handpainted tattoos, guests can choose from designs in our expansive designs books, OR ask from something custom painted by our tattoo artist. Our handpainted tattoos come in black only, alternative colors are available upon special request.

AIRBRUSH TEMPORARY TATTOOS: NYSketches airbrush tattoo artists will airbrush designs quickly before your eyes with a huge selection of airbrush stencils from which your guests can choose. Airbrush tattoos are great for large parties, as they take much less time than handpainted tattoos, however, party go-ers are limited to the stencils provided.

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Glitter Party Tattoo	Handpainted Chinese Symbol Tattoo at Bar Mitzvah Party	Glitter Peace Sign Tattoo at Bar/Bat Mitzvah Party
Handpainted Tattoo at Cocktail Lounge Party	Airbrush Tattoo at Charity Event	Airbrush Butterfly Tattoo at Bat Mitzvah Party

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BodyCrystals

Our body crystal artists will adorn you and your guests with sparkling Swarovski crystals. You may choose from colorful body paint or elegant black tattoo ink with which our artists will paint beautiful designs accented with crystals & glitter!

Add STYLE to your party with FASHION SKETCHES! Hire a skilled fashion illustrator to come to your event and draw each of your guests as FASHION ILLUSTRATIONS- just like in magazines! Our NYFashionSketch artists come fully prepared with drawing materials & paper. When sitting for a fashion sketch, each person can choose their pose & what kind of fashion style they'd like- from the latest fashion's on Sex & the City, in Vogue Magazine, your favorite star's outfit worn at the Oscars... you name it! Finishing Touches are also available to protect your fashion sketch. For samples of recent events, check out our BLOG!

Characters
SANTA CLAUS is Here! Have one of your child's favorite characters at your party! NYCharacters will come to your event, dance, & play games with your guests. Polaroids of our NYCharacter and your guests are also available for your guests to keep as a party memento! Choose from a host of popular characters including fairies, princesses & princes, wizards, monsters, super heroes, fireman, wicked witches, holiday characters & more. Looking for something special? Contact us to find out if we have what you are looking for.

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Clowns
Choose from an assortment of clowns, from traditional white face/red nose to clowns with no white face, and less makeup. NYClowns will come to your event & play games, create magic, make balloons, facepaint, and even intergrate storytelling (great for the little ones!)- you may choose which combination of entertainment you'd like the clown to provide. NYClowns customize each appearance to the age of your guests, your taste, the type of event, and size of your party.
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Balloon Artists
Out balloon artists will come to your event and create wonderful balloon creations from animals, to hats, swords, you name it! Our balloon artists are fast- we use an air pump & our magic hands to make balloon creations in just minutes!
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Magicians
Our magicians customize each performance for the age of your guests (tailored for kids OR adults), size of party & event type. Performances can include doves, bunnies, suspending guests in the air, & more! NYMagicians can provide strolling entertainment or choreographed stage shows.
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Storytelling
NYsketches Storytellers will come to your event stimulate your guests creative imagination with all kinds of tales. Our storytellers customize each appearance to the age & needs of your audience. You may choose a custom story, created especially for your child based on his/her interests & personality (story is created before the party date), or pick from folktales from around the world. Stories are told through participatory movements, sounds, & lots of interaction. NYStorytellers can provide stories for small parties as well as stage performances for schools or large events.

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Animal Rhythms

Desert Travels

Dance/Storytelling Theater
NYSKETCHES has teamed up with Treehouse Shakers, a children's dance/theater group who offer two different dance/theater performances for kids. The stories, elaborate costumes, and music have been custom designed and composed for these ONE OF A KIND performances. Each performance is fully interactive, and last approx. 45 minutes:

ANIMAL RHYTHMS are two African folktales told through modern dance, rhythmic sounds, and storytelling. Through the use of body drumming, modern dance and storytelling, Animal Rhythms follows several animals as they learn about helping, sharing, working and friendship. Children in the audience will be able to create the sounds of the ancient story drum using their own bodies and are introduced to modern dance through the characters onstage. Additionally, the performance is accompanied by a live drummer too!

DESERT TRAVELS- TALES FROM MIDDLE EAST is a performance mixing modern dance, storytelling and live music that tells Middle Eastern folktales. The stories teach lessons of generosity, forgiveness and cooperation through characters like a princess who marries a rat, desert sand turns into a tent, and a stork who speaks!

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Imagination in Motion

Live Cartoon

NYSKETCHES has teamed up with Theater Moves- a modern day Laurel & Hardy duo whose performances are great for all ages- kids to adults. In their performances, they piece together finely timed movement with dialogue, soundtracks and music, creating a humorous and poignant theater. Their sense of play and resilient on-stage friendship enable them to explore themes of conflict, power and control without losing sight of their humanity.

IMAGINATION IN MOTION This athletic movement theater performance draws on various theatrical styles, including mime, modern dance, and vaudeville - but turns these traditions upside down by combining them with dialogue, audience participation and a delightfully original soundtrack. The result is a program that is engaging to people of all ages. Highlights include the creation of a mechanical man who runs amok while the audience cheers, a boy's struggle to escape from within a video game, & giant vacuum cleaner that sucks both performers offstage. Performance lasts approx. 45 min.

Stunt Performers
Our stunt performers will AMAZE your guests with performances combining vaudeville sideshow, stand-up comedy, visual effects & a whole lot of fun! Members of our CIRCUS troupe can escape from straight jackets, eat worms & roaches & even GLASS, walk on glass, juggle & swallow fire, swallow swords, lay down on a bed of nails, balance a chain-saw on their head, glow in the dark & vanish before your eyes, get into a 6 foot weather balloon, & even run electricity through their entire body (without getting hurt!). NYStunt performers can perform choreographed eye-popping stage shows, as well as smaller scale strolling entertainment for private parties.


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Eatin' Fire

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Kids Rock Band Rock out with our AMAZING & incredibly HIP Kids Rock Funtime Band! The completely interactive band (made up of grown-ups) belts out tunes that accompany outlandish stories that entertain both kids & adults! Songs include a reggae style "Hundred Thousand Clowns Catching Waves Day," a B-52's like "Time Is at an End," a ska infused "ClownaNagila," and other great songs with vibrant imagery like "Mr. Clown and the Day the Sun Got Wet." The band is great for kids of all ages (teens & pre-teen'll think their cool too!).

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Mimes
What can we say about mimes! Just like all NYSKETCHES performers, our mimes are top notch.

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Massage Therapists
Lay back, relax, and let our certified massage therapists take all your stress away! Combine some of our spa services with a card reader, handwriting specialist, or henna body artist to create a party combination that will delight all your guests.

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Tarot Card & Palm Readings

Enjoy these ancient arts whose long histories stretch back over hundreds of years. During a tea leaf reading, guests will drink a cup of tea, leaving a bit of leaves in the cup. The cup is then turned over and the remaining leaves are put in a saucer. Our tea leaf readers will read the patterns formed by the leaves and explain their meaning to you. Our Tarot card reader will lay out the cards to give a positive and fun reading. Our palm reader will study the lines in your guests’ palms and give a positive reading on subjects like love, family, relationships, and business.
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Lookalikes
Our celebrity impersonators will come to your event and entertain your guests with strolling entertainment or stage shows. Personalities include: Charlie Chaplin, Marilyn Monroe, Cher, & more!

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Musicians
Our musicians can provide a variety of musical entertainment ranging from harpists, violinists, vocalists, to karaoke & singer songwriters

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