I have always been surrounded by art all my life, and in 2007 I started to paint on skin. However, I dont do deigns or swirls, which I do sometimes, but what I love to paint on skin are landscapes or images that look 3D. I have gotten very good at it and has had a lot of people asking me to paint them either for modeling purposes or for a tattoo design to see if it looks good. I started this as a hobby and I slowly want to develop this into a lifestyle. So I really hope this site will help me get known and be offered a lot of projects and jobs to work on. Because this talent I have I want to share it and express myself with it.


Let’s see: How did this whole Body Art get started? A while back in the summer of 2007 I came up with this random idea of having something painted on my back. The reason I thought about it was to help see art differently... It's like seeing art painted on something odd, rather then a canvas. I have noticed that sometimes seeing art on a canvas can seem boring, but add it on a person then all of a sudden there is interest. Everyday you see art on paper, walls, photographs, posters, and etc. so why not see art painted on someone, not tattooed but painted with all the details of the brush strokes, and the amazing color value effects when its mixed and shadowed. It's something different and it catches someone’s attention. My sister Lauren was the first one to paint something on my back. I asked her to paint a sun setting on the ocean, with a moon painted behind my left shoulder along with colored clouds around it. Painting it took a while, but in the end it came just the way i thought it would. It took me a whole year before I got another idea to have my arm painted, so in the summer of 2008 I asked my sister to paint my arm of grape veins. It took up my whole left arm and my left shoulder. Painting it took about nine hours, it was long and tiring. That is probably the reason why I have some of the photographs without my face; I looked tired and ready to pass out. I guess the reason it took so long was probably because I had to hold my arm upwards, and after a while the blood goes down my arm, so I had to take breaks in between and rest my arm. Luckily we finished at five in the morning, but at least it was summer so I got to sleep in. A Couple days later my friend Amanda asked me if I could paint her, so I decided why not. After I was done that’s when I got the idea to paint other people. I develop an idea, ask someone if they would like to be painted then get the whole view of a photograph. It was a pretty neat idea, plus it makes me stand out of the crowd, where I can say that I came up with the idea, and so this project is coming out pretty good. I hope to keep it up in the future.

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