Body Painting, Body Writing and Skin Art

What about materials?

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:54:16 GMT

Dear colleagues!
You work as what paints? What firms do you like?
I use aquacolor "Kryoan", "Make up Atelier Paris".
I heard about "Peggy Sage","FARDEL" , "Meroh" but never try this...

p.s. Its my work "Her Light" . Model : Svetlna Abzalova, photo: Oleg Tityaev

HI all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:00:49 GMT

My name is Anastasia, I'm bodypainter and make up artist from Moscow)))) I wish to find collegues and to communicate with them)))

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:43:43 GMT

Did this last night for the Remy Martin bottle design release party in SF. I painted the two girls in "foliage" and the faces on the cats.. much fun was had by all. :)

(click to view larger!)

Newest bodypainting excersion

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:12:41 GMT

This is a rare one with actual English in it...

Has anyone here tried...

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:54:57 GMT

...black semi-permanent body paint called Jagua or Harquus?

Am interested in getting some but wondered if there was a difference between the two.

Thanks!

Some recent work.

Thu, 22 May 2008 20:01:14 GMT

I've been trying out some new techniques. Any pointers are useful!!

I am doing my first full on bodypaint session this saturday and I need it to stay through an evening of dancing. I use wolfe brothers paints. Would you suggest hair spray or baby powder or a special settting in spray? And if it's a special kind....what do you use? And if it's hairspray does it matter what type?

And the body painting begins...

It was his idea!

Johnny wanted the Amy Winehouse tattoo....so that's what he got!

Sorry for the quality of these ones..

Some fake tattoos for my roomates and I when we went out dancing...

And some recent facepainting pictures...

Flowers and feathers

Wed, 21 May 2008 16:57:30 GMT

My design, inspired by Catherine Cartwright-Jones

American Flag

Wed, 21 May 2008 04:47:58 GMT

I painted this for the Bay to Breakers Race in SF..

She had the costume, the hair, the look, and the whole thing was her idea so I can't take much credit, though I must admit the flag turned out really really good.

Also, a photo of her (almost) made the front page of the SF Chronicle! Except they cropped her out in the photo. How un-patriotic! Gotta love America.

Tue, 13 May 2008 20:30:16 GMT

I want to Paint my body Green like Frankenstien & I need to do thick black stiches all over myself too. Im gonna be at a concert sweating alot & dancing ..anyomne have any suggestions on paint that wont come off with sweat?? and for the stiches would sharpie marker work?? Thanks !

Street juggler

Mon, 12 May 2008 18:55:56 GMT

St.Petersburg, Russia.

5.9.08 Bodypainting at the Saints and Sinners Fetish Night, The Underground, Colorado Springs, Co

Sat, 10 May 2008 20:11:41 GMT

Bodypainting at Saints & Sinners Fetish Night
Friday, 9 May 2008 * 8 pm -1:30 am * THe Underground * 110 North Nevada Ave * Colorado Springs, CO

It was another fantastic evening for body paint artists Leaf and Doug of the Tree Leaves' Oracle's continual appearance at Colorado Springs Fetish Night @ the Underground. Me and Doug spent last night coming up with some designs and stencils for the airbrush, and due to my crazy work schedule, didn't really get a chance to pull together Saints n Sinners theme hand paint designs till just a few hours before the event. We were geared up and out the door by 8 pm, arriving at the Underground around 8:20 to setup our booth. Prior, I spent an hour and a half coming up with some kind of freaky design for myself and decided to go with a priestly "Hell Boy" comic-demon character. We also went with an experiment of black liquid latex on the back to see if we could capture and preserve a design painted on it. We had hoped to hit Zeezo's costume shop enroute to stock up on blacks, reds, and dark blues. My stock of hand-paint watercolor and acryllic was low. Also after a mishap with a spirit gum spill last event, I needed to get some more gum. Out of time we went with what we had. Doug doing the airbrush and me doing the hand paint. Last night I received some first lessons from Doug in the use of the airbrush and will be taking on that avenue soon as I experiment and play with the medium. Our experimentations with liquid latex hit a new threshhold of understanding as of this night as well. Turns out Liquid latex has a rubber-stench that's not all that pleasant, so will have to experiment with some new applications with perhaps a body spray application on top of it, or mixing in essential oils to the latex. But the preservation of the latex painting Doug airbrushed on my back came out fantastic. After some experimenting with this, we'll be pursuing it more. I was very impressed with Doug's stencils he came up with, and patterns for the airbrush as well. The airbrush part of the booth was the most popular for the evening, whereas in the past the hand painting had attracted more. Looking forward to the exploration and incorporation of all these mediums, and narrowing down success with the latex. A last minute bodypainting request as we were closing down the booth turned out to be one of our best works of art yet. Fabulous work Doug!

"Floral faerie * airbrush by Doug

"Rita, comic "Hellboy" Leaf, and Dawn
Hellboy face n' body handpainted by Leaf
airbrush Celtic Cross on torso by Doug

"Rita, comic "Hellboy" Leaf, and Dawn
Hellboy face n' body handpainted by Leaf
airbrush Celtic Cross on torso by Doug</div></a>

Hellboy face n' body handpainted by Leaf
airbrush Celtic Cross on torso by Doug

Demon Faerie Wings
airbrush on back by Doug over black liquid latex</div>

Demon Faerie Wings
airbrush on back by Doug over black liquid latex (removed from back)</div>

"comic "Hellboy" Leaf
Hellboy face n' body handpainted by Leaf
airbrush Celtic Cross on torso by Doug</div></a>

Floral Faerie airbrush by Doug

"Egyptian pharoah eyes"
handpainted acryllic with brush by Leaf</div></a>

Masquerade eyes
hand-painted acryllic with brush by Leaf

"comic "Hellboy" Leaf
Hellboy face n' body handpainted by Leaf
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Floral Faerie airbrush by Doug

Demonic Faerie wings on Leaf's Back
Airbrush and stencil by Doug on black liquid latex
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Floral Faerie airbrush by Doug

Tue, 06 May 2008 17:52:19 GMT

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:42:33 GMT

I absolutely love tattoos but have another year to wait before I can get any =P This is where my facepaints come in handy!

Faerie Paint

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:22:30 GMT

Faeries and body painting keep on colliding in my head. The other day this one flew in the window, landed on my art box, and insisted on being painted. She wouldn't leave me alone until I got out the paints and the brush for her, but then I guess she decided it would be a self-portrait I think because I couldn't get that brush away from her....

Square Spiral

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:31:29 GMT

X-posted from my own journal, I have some photos from one of my recent body painting sets. It seemed to me that it deserved a wider audience.

This one is modelled by my friend Debbie, who I worked with once before, years ago, and who, prior to her coming over to be painted, I hadn't seen in a year or so. I had been telling her about a design I had come up with for a very slight girl some months earlier (who then flaked on me), and how I hadn't been able to find another model suitable for it. Debbie pointed out that she was very light herself, and voulenteered to model this design for me. Indeed, her assessment of her own frame was if anything an understatement, but this proved no obstacle for me, since - as I have stated before - I'm growing to like working with a good variety of body types more and more.

So, this one was very loosely inspired by the facial tattoos of the Maori , which I have always adored. I wanted to create a design which was symmetrical in a number of places, and in all other places ... well, you can see for yourself. I think the effect is a neat one. Obviously, this design is a bit of a departure for me, in that it leaves a great deal more bare skin than any other set I've done to date, but in the quest to always do something new with each new set I do, such departures ought to be more the norm than the exception.

I don't know what more there is to say, but...

The Kicker

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:58:16 GMT

She told me the baby kicks a lot, so...

Stripes

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:57:18 GMT

I found this picture of a girl painted in stripes and thought of this community.

Tree/Dryad

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 04:14:48 GMT

I did a this body painting this week for an awards show.. the theme for the event was "enchanted forest" and the concept was to do a tree.. but she turned out rather like a dryad/goddess. I'm very happy with it! yay!

“Serpentina the Snake Woman”

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:59:18 GMT

Hi I am newJ

I just wanted to share this image of me as “Serpentina the Snake Woman” from the Fashion week Ventura 2008 "Cirque du Couture" show. Artist: Bernd Rantscheff

FYI: those are eyes painted on my eyelidsJ

friend posted this on lj....

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:37:29 GMT

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:03:53 GMT

Mac chromacakes

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:01:38 GMT

I recently purchased the sky blue color of M.A.C. pro chromacake...I have experimented on my arms and hand and it looks like this might stain my skin. I'm needing to use it on the entire body, but I fear it may not wash off completely. I've tried it with the M.A.C. water based mixing medium and alchol based medium and just plain water...all seem to leave the blue stain. Is my skin dry and saoking it up? Surely this isn't supposed to stain me, any helpful tips?

Here Kitty Kitty......MeOW!

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:25:43 GMT

Body Painting at Club Nico Omaha Nebraska

Not mine, but i like it.

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 05:31:49 GMT

Body Art

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:03:35 GMT

Some art that I made over the weekend...