Body Painting

Origins- Tribesmen

The Huli Wigmen Warriors Of Papua New Guinea

Mursi kids by Ingetje Tadros

Body painting with clay and other natural pigments existed in most, if not all, tribalist cultures. Often worn during ceremonies, it still survives in this ancient form among the indigenous people of Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific islands, parts of Africa, India, Japan and more.
In this ritual art forms we find body painting, tattoos, piercing, nose-ears-mouth plugs, Mehndi, henna and scarification.
The place of body art forms in this old cultures is very important.

Origins- Japan

Traditional Kumadori Painting in Kabuki Theatre

Geisha

Contemporary Body Painting

World Body Painting Festival

Studio Practice

Aquacolour

Johannes Stötter

Campaigns/Advertisments

Aizone Typographic Body Painting Campaign

Body Painting artist- Anastasia Durasova.

Photographer- Henry Hargreaves

Art direction & design- Jessica Walsh.

What i love about this makeup is how clean and neat it looks. I think it is very different to a lot of other body painting i have seen, in the fact that

It just goes to show how there are no rules with makeup and body paint and that if you execute something well, you

Kabuki Theatre

The actors become living special effects to present the story, and extravagant masking and makeup is integral to this complete transformation of the actor, so Asian theatre generally includes the most sophisticated facepainting designs in the world, such as the Kumadori makeup tradition in Japanese Kabuki theater. The use of transformational makeup in Japan can be traced back to ancient religious rituals and, over time, as such ceremonies evolved into theatre,

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Craig Tracey

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The world body painting festival is held every Year in August in Carinthia, the southern city in Austria.

During the 7 day festival over 200 body painting teams apply makeup for competition and then there are shows to celebrate the art.

Alongside the body painting compeition

The different awards that are given out during the festival are:

- the World Champion title "World Awards", also the "European Awards"
- the special categories "Special Effects Make-Up Award", "Creative Make-up Award" as well as the new "WBF Make-up Battle"
- the Amateur Award in the category "Brush/Sponge" and "Open category"
- the art prize "WBF Installation Art Award" (separate document)

Below are some examples of reent artwork that was produced at the festival

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Body Painting with Grease/oil based piant.

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carolyn cowan

-watercolour painting- It is really importrant to wet the pain, and mix it with your brush to make it thick like mayonase - so it gives a good coverage on the model's skin.

Be aware of keeping the edges very strong- clear clean and well defined with no streaks in the paint. you want a solid colour, this is best to do with a wide flat brush.

once painted, poder watercolour. it is good to use for some things however it will be removed with sweat and water fo does not last long.

Techniques for blending colours on an arm with watercolour.

- massage the paint, 'warm' it up and load the brush.

bands of contrasting colour down the arm .

make sure you have a good coverage.

1. with a brush, with some of the lighter colour on, then

2, using finger to blend. wetting it and mixing it. pulling the colours together.

3. stipple sponge. - pulling the darker colour up into the lighter colour- gives another more textured effect.

Using oil/grease based colour

- harder to use because it smodges a lot.

- However you get a much longer blending time because oil paints do not set until they are powdered.

It is best to powder the oil/grease based powder with colour pigmented powder, although it is possible to use a transluscent powder it is harder for the colour to show through it.

Using Fullers earth in body paint

Fullers earth is a good way to get texture onto a bodypaint however it does not last very long and cracks. What is good about this is that you can draw into it and make patterns. However it is importrant to note that some people react to the material. always test oyur model first.

First Body paint test- Cyborg arm

For this paint i used watercolours, because of the extreme contrast between the blacks and the silvers, i did not want the paint to smodge because of the detail so i did not use grease based colours .

I am so happy with how the paint job came out, i do believe that the paint shows depth.

Another way to use body paint that is quite popular among artists is to camoflage the model into a background

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