FPBA Convention Las Vegas - 2011 Airbrush Demonstration

At this evening's Bodypainting Jam at the FPBA Convention I was asked to demonstrate a quick airbrush look. I painted this oriental inspired top on fellow Brit and Bodypainter Carolyn Roper. Carolyn was a superstar! I wish I looked this good in not much more than paint!!

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FPBA Convention Las Vegas - 2011 images from Day 3 - Quick Painted Clothes

Photo: Jason Harre - www.jasonharre.com - 2011

Today's class I was teaching for the FPBA Convention at Harrah's, Las Vegas, was Quick Body Painted Clothes. I demonstrated a speedy cocktail dress look and broke out some practice bodies for the students to paint in teams alongside me. I demonstrated, blocking out the design, base application, creating folds and creases in fabric, highlighting and shading, creating a drop shadow, painting fine detail and sealing the look.

As I worked on my model the students got to work on thier own versions of the a cocktail dress look. It is always wonderful to see how amazing students work can be in a hands on class. I had a fantastic model - Alana who I hope to paint with again as she has a fantastic attitude.

Here are a few images from the class including a great shot of Alana by my husband Jason Harre who was the event's unofficial photographer.

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FPBA Convention Las Vegas - 2011 images from Day 2 - Painted Hands Class

 I love teaching about painted hands, it is such a wonderful way to use your body art skills and let rip with your imagination. Many of my commerical jobs feature painted hand looks of many different kinds. During the class we explored painted hands inthe media and spent time examining hand art by a range of artists.

 With the students feeling suitably inspired, I decided to allow empower the students to each create paint thier own hands to collage together into a our own verson of a painting. I chose the image Tiger Surprised by Henri Rousseau to inspire the students and guided them through creating thier own looks to jigsaw together into a finished look.

  The results were amazing, the students showed some really excellent work! Especally my youngest student - my 7 year old daughter, Isobel, who was shadowing her Mummy for the day! Here is a selection of the different looks we created. Well done everyone!!

If you are interested in taking a painted hands class I will be running one at the FABAIC Convention in Orlando at the end of May. Hope to see you there!!















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The Naked Truth Charity Calendar raises over £150,000 for The Lighthouse Club.

Byrnes Brothers hand over a cheque for over £153,000

Towards the end of last year I worked on a series of bodypainting images for a calendar for The Byrne Group called "The Naked Truth". We spent a week in the studio and on construction locations around London working with a great team. Photography was by Susan Porter-Thomas at SPT Photography and I was aided by my fantastic assistant Natasha, whose expertise and massaging our models cramps from holding tricky positions as well as her painting skills were greatly appreciated.

This was a calendar with a very limited run of no more than 100 copies which were auctioned to raise money for The Lighthouse Club which helps the families of those killed or injured in the construction industry. Images from the calendar are so exclusive they will not be available for general release, but it featured Byrne employees painted to vanish into a variety of different industrial backgrounds.

Byrne Brothers announced last week that the calendar raised in excess of £150,000 for The Lighthouse Club.

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FPBA Convention Las Vegas - 2011 images from Day 1

For the convention's opening jam I was booked to paint a model to vanish into an elaborate background I had created. Sadly my model did not show up due to a bit of confusion so I was left with a backdrop and no model. Thankfully as the evening wore on one of the organisers of the event Lea Selley volunteered to step in and model herself. I am in awe of her bravery not only to step in at the last minute like that, but to set aside her inhibitions in front of her peers. Thanks for being such a great sport Lea! It was Lea's first time as a bodypainting model and she did an amazing job. As I had much less time to paint Lea I chose an easy seated pose for her which had less detail to blend her into. Some day I will redo a bodypaint with this backdrop and use the full extent of the detail - until then - thankyou Lea for being such a fabulous model. I hope you enjoyed the experience!!


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FPBA Convention Las Vegas - 2011

 Next month I will be teaching and bodypainting at the FPBA Convention in Las Vegas. The instructors include aretists such as Myself, Mark Reid, Pashur, Carolyn Roper, The Wolfe Brothers, Wiser, Lea Selley, Gary Cole, Wolf Richter, Vargas and many more!

Purpose of the Face Painting and Body Art Convention is:

• foster creativity through education
• provide an opportunity for artists to connect with and learn from one another in a family friendly, PG environment.
• reach out to others and encourage them to understand that their artistic abilities are blessings that can transform not only faces, but hearts as well
• inspire individuals to “invest in their future” by assisting them to build businesses that will enrich their lives and allow them to follow their dreams
• offer a time and place for fellowship and sharing that promotes positive attitudes and actions

 It is a fantastic opportunity to expand your skills and learn in a safe fun environment from experts.


Look forward to seeing you there!!

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Filming a commerical for L'Usine in Lebannon

A few months ago I flew out to Lebannon to shoot a TV commerical for Saudi Arabian Bakery company L'Usine. I was working for Beirut based City Films, who made me feel really welcome in Beirut. The concept was bodypainting three contortionists with faces on thier stomachs so that they can create strange creatures to feature in the advert. Definately one of the more unsusual requests I have had, technically tricky as the contortion positions can only be held for a short periods of time. The stomach stretches so much when contorted that all sorts of clever techniques had to be employed to paint detailled featured that were not distorted when the bodies were in position. The three contortionists featured were  JJ Langridge, David Pereira and Milo Gonzales. The commerical was directed by Gaute Hesthagen of Uitch I Scratch.

We shot three commerical over the three shoot days. View the commercials here:

L'Usine Commercial 1 - Instruments

L'Usine Commerical 2 - Games

L'Usine Commerical 3 - University

Below are a few stills from the shoot days.