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Category Archives: Body Art

Events

I’m involved with several events over the next few days.  Click on “Calendar” for details.
Sunday the 14th:  Opening for Spring Studio 18th Anniversary Show, featuring hundreds of artists.  Spring Studio, NYC, starts 6:30.
Sunday the 14th:  Blacklight Body Painting Dance Party at St. George Healing Arts, Staten Island, 6 pm on, donation suggested.
Tuesday the 16th:  KAMI, [...]

Textural Bodypaint

Looking through my personal library this week, I came across an old book called “Design by Accident” by James F. O’Brien.  It’s full of ways to incorporate chance and natural phenomena into visual arts and crafts.  Just the Table of Contents makes me feel inspired, so I’ll share it here:
Tree Forms:  trunks and branches formed [...]

Hair as Art: Edisa Weeks

As a child, dance artist Edisa Weeks attended Quaker meetings with her family. These meetings involved group meditation and sharing, conducted without leaders or hierarchy. As an adult artist, she found herself in a field defined by elitism and a rigid division of roles. The artists were expected to demonstrate their skill, [...]

Pregnant Pose

Claudia Citkovitz is a Staten Island based acupuncturist with a specialty in childbirth and delivery.  Recently she arranged for me to make some sketches that she may use in promotional or educational materials.  One of Claudia’s friends and clients posed for the drawings above and below.  These two are a kind of yin and yang [...]

Personal Painting

Back in July I posted some of the body painting with woad, or indigo, that I did that month at the Sirius Rising festival at Brushwood Folklore Center in Sherman, New York.  This post will feature selections of my work with regular cosmetic body paints from this year’s festival.
At Sirius Rising, and sometimes at other [...]