Five-time world champions Scott Fray and Madelyn Greco busy at work. Credit: Living Art America The art of bodypainting with clay or other natural pigments has been around in tribal cultures forever. Unlike tattooing, it washes off, and unlike temporary tattoos, the model often wears nothing but a thin […] Read more Bodypainting Comes Alive […]
Three models in body paint by artist Johannes Stoetter form an elephant at CITES CoP17 in Johannesburg. (Image courtesy Snapdragonpictures/WWF) “While a canvas lasts forever, a body painting lasts for just a few hours. Hopefully that’s not true for our elephants,” Stoetter said in a statement. At the art […] Read more Artist Uses Body […]
Be careful if you’ve been approached by somebody named Kandace Whitman, who claims to be a body painter looking for models to expand her portfolio. She asks young women, who are interested in modeling for body painting, to send her naked pictures for consideration. On her twitter (@KWhitmandesigns) and instagram (@kandacewhitman) accounts, she uses our […]
A body painting artist has created a series of images of, what appear to be, straight forward animal portraits. Look closer, however, and it soon becomes clear that the mind-boggling images have been created using people. Emma Fay, 29, spends hours using water-based paints to transform her models into […] Read more Now that’s animal […]
If you’re already searching for Halloween make-up inspiration, look no further than this face and body painter, Natalie Costello . The 27-year-old, from Dublin, Ireland, regularly transforms herself with body painting into Disney and fictional characters from books and films, and has recently been garnering global attention, thanks to her remarkable skills. […] Read more […]
Performance view of “Donna Huanca: Surrogate Painteen,” 2016. Photo courtesy of Peres Projects, Berlin. Amid the cosmopolitan chaos of London this fall, the New York artist Donna Huanca is creating space for meditative contemplation. As Frieze Week sets in, the Zabludowicz Collection in London will be taken over by […] Read more The Beauty of […]
