Body paint on my roof

Bobbie Dai is all veiled mysterious and body painted like an alien on my roof.

Kasper Rose Body paint

Here's my new model from yesterday. I used a combination of body paint and glitter tattoo and jewels on her.

Findley silver body pain photoshoot

I love how strong this pose is. She really rocked the body paint shoot.

Rainbow Heart Body Painting

This body painting picture is from a photoshoot from 2007 but I think it has a very 1960s feel to it. I'm digging the neon colors.
I've just posted products with this bodypaint image on to my Cafe Press store at https://www.cafepress.com/nycbodyart

Universe body paint

Sometimes I have an idea and look for a model. Sometimes a model inspires an idea. Other times, I ask the model what he or she would like to be and I just riff. She wanted to be the universe. There's a sun on her, and planets and spirals. The planets are fragile, soap bubble like things. Happy belated Earth Day!
Oh, if you like this image, you can buy stuff with it on it at my new cafepress shop. The url is http://www.cafepress.com/nycbodyart
Thanks!

Abstract Body Painting

In this body painting image, I was playing with textures, patterns and colors. I love to play and experiment. "Experiments in Body Painting" sounds like a B-movie.
What I was going for was the idea that her skin was cracking to reveal all these different colors, patterns and textures that were inside of her; that we are all much more colorful within than we appear to be on the surface.

body painting detail images

I'm trying to post new body painting images daily and insert an element of randomness in the choice of body paint artwork.
Yesterday I finished culling 64 disks of images down to about 450 individual images. It's approximately 50 body paint photo shoots or what I've done in the past 2 years since I got a camera. I have all the images in a folder where they have numbers but not names. I'm picking one at random every day without turning on the thumbnail feature.
Today's body paint image is of Tim. It's a close up to show the detail in his painting. It focuses on his hands protecting the anatomical heart I painted on his chest.

New body painting photo!

I've spent the past several days editing about 2 years worth of body painting photo shoots.
Here's today's image!
Sarah's a contortionist so you never know what position she's going to wind up in. I painted her with cartoony faces that go in all different directions...much like Sarah.

Ann- Blue imp body painting

It's Ann. I body painted her to accentuate her musculature. She's quite buff and could easily kick your, my or pretty much anybody's ass.
Her body paint is accented with vaguely tribal designs, but softer than traditional tribal. I just kinda riffed.

Jessica with a slinky

I've got students for a face painting class showing up shortly (btw, I am more than willing to travel to give face and/or body painting classes, so let me know if you'd like to have one) so this will be a quick post. Here's Jessica, with a slinky. I like how her stripes echo the colors of the slinky.
I like to give my models props because it gives them something to do whilst they are posing.

Justin's body painting with sheer fabric photos

It's Justin again. All body painted and posing with a length of sheer striped fabric. I really thing it's interesting how such a simple prop and change of pose can really change the whole feel of the painting. When you have a model who's willing to 'work it', it really makes a difference.

Body painting with props.

Yesterday I promised images of Justin's cat body paint photo shoot with props.

Here they are. The props used in this body paint shoot were very simple. We had some plastic beads on a cord (like mardi gras beads) and a piece of sheer striped fabric.

Looking at lighting with Justin's body painting photos

Justin was a very fun and enthusiastic model to work with. He was into the whole body painting experience and really got into character. I body painted him like a blue fire cat with a broken heart. The design incorporated graphic flames in place of stripes and the flame motif is echoed in his face painting. I'm posting a couple of picture of Justin to illustrate how lighting can really change the feel of a body paint photo shoot.

Tomorrow let's look at how props can change the feel of a body paint shoot.

Miss Rockett Girl @ the beach!

Even though we're currently having a blizzard, I just booked my first shoot of the year for the beach! Nova is the hardy soul, don't worry, we're waiting until the end of April.

I can't wait until it's warm enough to shoot outside. My studio is about an hour from the nude beach.

Since I'm trying to think warm thoughts, here's a picture of Miss Rockett Girl rocking her mermaid body paint at the beach last summer. You've seen other images of her in my blog and on my website. I'm very blessed to have models who are up for pretty much anything. Life is good.

My first body painting photo shoot

My lovely model is Patrice.

I shot her up on my roof. I really like how the metallic colors blend together and how the design echoes the lines of her body. While I had done a lot of bodypainting, she was the first model that I photographed. The shoot took place about a year and a half ago. I also like the color that the fabrics inject into the images.

It's tomorrow's post. The early edition!

I know that I said I was going to post new body painting images daily to this blog. I'm trying to keep a commitment that I made. I've got a killer day tomorrow. A business meeting @ 8am followed by treking up to the Bronx where I'm a volunteer face painting kids with special needs.

I know that I'm not likely to get to post before I run out in the morning so I'm posting early. It still counts, right?

Anyway, here are some pictures of Bobby (you can see other pictures of the body paint shoot we did last year in an earlier posting) and the infamous plastic dinosaurs. Come to think of it, Bobby might be infamous as well. ;) The first image was shot using my lensbaby. It's a funky kinda lense that has a single moveable focus point.