A Little Body Work

In between this and that, I spent part of today with an ear on the last Creativelive session with Jeremy Sutton.  A master at his craft indeed but a smidge too long winded for my taste.  Combine the wish for a fast forward button and and edit of the anecdotes, I sought side-track and distraction and decided to have a play at some imagery inspired by Andrea Peria’s fantastic body paint images.  Mr Sutton’s work is a tad too interpretive for my taste and I confess that I prefer the more literal and more graphic spectrum of the art world. … literal verging on the  surreal perhaps, like I’d rather take Salvador Dali home for dinner than Monet, (if given a choice)!  And my camera vs a paintbrush any day!

This is the PG/SFW version.  If you want to see the full image you can pop across to 500px and see it HERE.

And then just to be fair, and because I was really fed up with the blather on CL, I did a piece that was a tad more impressionistic and still a somewhat surreal using textures and layers and less of the body paint concept….. full image link HERE.

There’s also another piece of nude dancers that I messed with on 5oopx.   It was fun mimicking the body paint process and seeing if I could create a reasonable simulation without the benefit of a live painted model and also seeing the difference between wrapping textures around figures rather than just layering them as one usually does ( as in Lotus Dancer, above).