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Pregnant Pose

Thursday, September 17, 2009

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 [...]

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Personal Painting

Saturday, September 5, 2009

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 [...]

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A New Old Medium

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

I’ve just returned from Sirius Rising, a festival of pagan arts and spirituality at the Brushwood Folklore Center in Sherman, New York, where I was teaching workshops and painting on bodies.  My colleague and mentor, Catherine Cartwright-Jones, shown above in a picture from 2002, was teaching a daily workshop on the art of Celtic Woading. [...]

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Fire in the Belly

Friday, June 12, 2009

When someone is driven by passion or ambition we say they have fire in the belly.  It’s one of many idioms that describe mental or spiritual states in bodily terms.  These common sayings reveal our sense that the whole body, not just the head, is the vehicle of the soul and a field of clashing [...]

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Dorsal Emblems

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Most of the body art shown in my online portfolios here and here is full-body work done in my studio.  But I have also frequently done body painting at festivals such as Sirius Rising, Starwood, Dance New England Summer Camp and the American Body Arts Festival, at pageants such as Earth Celebrations‘ Rites of Spring, [...]

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