Original art ๐จ ๐ธ Camouflage body painting /photos & video/
Dear online travelers, here I would like to share a project, which I created in 2017 for The Austrian Economy Chamber and the Austrian Painting Guild for a 3 days trade show. Every day I painted 2 models in front of a backdrop. I created the backdrop digitally from a small pattern they gave me.
This is often a hard job.
There are a few reasons for it:
- Trade show halls are very big and mostly cold, the model has to stand still and the body cools down very fast. Shivering models and wet paint and not a great combination. I do bring a heater with me.
- The painter has to run back and forth because the illusion is best visible from the distance.
- I named creative camouflage a bodypainting where the body is similar to the backdrop, but not exactly connected with all lines. What is the difference you may ask? When the body is exactly fitting to the backdrop lines the illusion works only from one point of observing view. When the body is painted in a similar style without exact connection, it can be observed from everywhere.
For this job, I did both versions. The exact camouflage takes much longer.
The creative style camouflage is faster to paint and I enjoy it so much more. It is something I often use in my free work, where I combine a canvas painting and a body painting together melted in one. It is really funny, but even when there is a huge painting created in the background, people see just the bodypainting and don't understand that is a total work of art, a mix of painting, bodypainting, photography and often videography.
I have been a judge at the World Bodypainting Festival for many years, was a World Champion myself back in 2006 and have another 18 awards from around the world. Teaching is one of my passions. I have been giving classes at the World Bodypainting Academy for 11 years, but I don't want to teach camouflage bodypainting anymore. I got really tired from the number of people doing the same thing over and over again.
I hope at the end of this month I will finally have more time to create a new bodypainting project and a video with it. Soon I should do a post about the history of bodypainting. It is one of my favorite topics. Since I am writing a book about it I am careful how much information I share online, but I will for sure share some.
Thank you for your comments & upvotes.
With love & light
Bella
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Impressive.
Thank you;)
That's AWESOME! I think you should team up with @adammillwardart and cook up some psychedelic camouflage together ^^
Hi, thank you very much. I know his work and it is absolutely wonderful, but I prefer to work alone. I like partnerships with musicians or scientist;)
I'm also a musician! lol When it comes to art I also prefer to work alone, I've never done a collaboration. I'm pretty set in my ways with the way I work lol
Amazing work, really Impressiv! Be sure to keep exciting yourself too... Every now and then, do something completely free, let your intuition guide you! Fellow artist here, will definitely be following for more!
Hi, thank you for the comment. I do completely free work very often, and my intuition always guides me. With commission works it is also very free. If the clients don't trust me, I would not work with them;)
Wow... incredible! I love body painting, but never taken it much further than trippy patterns while at raves and festivals... But super kudos for becoming the champion in 2006 (and for all your other awards!) definitely well-deserved! I shall be following and enjoying your blog very much :)
Thank you;). I would really recommend you to try it just in your studio with a model, nice music, enough time, some good tea;) and you will see how different the feeling would be. My favorite projects are alone with the model and my camera in my studio.
You're incredibly talented Bella
Thank you very much for the kind comment;). Talent is a very small drop from the path of an artist;)
well said - some may have talent, but it takes hard work and those that feel they don't constantly need to work and improve will not get very far.
Exactly dear Otto;)
Wow, this is some of the most amazing artwork I think I've ever seen in my life. You've left me speechless. Well, except for the few words I typed here, of course.
Hello, you have chosen such a wonderful name: Nomadic Soul- love it. Thank you for your beautiful words. I am very glad you like it. I do have some much more beautiful ones, this was just a commission for an event. I really appreciate you time and words.
Awesome art..... Like it.
I am glad you like it. Thank you for your comment.
such a beautiful art work, really appreciate your work.
whatever needs to be said about it has been said, so ...... here is my smiley ๐
upvoted, resteemed and shared https://twitter.com/visionaryartcom/status/959808966137208832
Thank you dear Otto, this is very kind of you.
Great Art work, AWESoME