My Bodypaintings - in the beginning (NSFW)
 

I know I've posted some of these at TFP in years past but the links are long gone. Three years ago this month I bought my first airbrush and started practicing. We were heading to Fantasy Fest at the end of October and I was determined to paint. These are some of my favorite pictures from those first practice sessions.

Please speak up and post replies! Critique my artwork! I know I'm no artist but by golly I have the guts to give it a try and I do believe that persistence is a good substitute for talent. Give me some encouragement to post more!

This was my very first painting...

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A couple days later my neighbor from down the street popped by and offered to model. What could I say except "take off your shirt!".
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Experimenting with metalics and color blending and my first attempt at eyeball titties.
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There's a great story behind this picture. I painted the blue shirt and Lucy put on the little gold vest over it and we got in the car and went out to a bar for some beers. We walked in like nothing was odd and <span style="font-style: italic">NO ONE NOTICED!</span> Amazing... When we finally pointed it out to a few people the entire bar crowded around to check it out of course.
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Being the Apple fanboi that I am, this one was inevitable. Also, the first of many quickie tiger striped boobies.
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More attempts at duplicating real clothing.
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Here's another quickie tiger stripe - part of my search for something I can do when I've been drinking, plus my second attempt at eyeball tittles.
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Continuing to practice stuff that I would eventually do while we were at Fantasy Fest, the yellow thing. Also, the palm trees were the only body painting I ever tried to do with an old-fashioned brush.
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Here are my first couple efforts at cats. I like cats. :)
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And my first (and worst) try at "the tongue". I've done this a couple times since and it worked much better but that's another post.
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For this post I'd like to thank my wonderful wife Lucy and our good friend Sally and our neighbor Michelle for sitting for me. I have hundreds more with lots of different models and will post them if I hear anything besides crickets chirping in here!

I've always loved your stuff, Bodypainter. You know that.
Thanks for sharing it with us again here- I'm sure it is always an inspiration to others.

Much apppreciated.

Wow that is very cool. I've thought once or twice that it would be cool to try that, even if it was just for fun with the wife.

wow I love seeing the progression. I can't wait for the next installment.

that's really neat! I've been wanting to try that for a while, and your images just might have been the kickstart I needed!

I'm especially impressed with your cats. Do you look at pictures when you are painting, or does your work pop right out of your head?

Thanks Art and everyone else. It's nice to get some response.

clavus - I did a lot of looking on the web before I began, searching for inspiration. The cats, the tongue, and the yellow thing are all based on others works, modified to suit myself. I don't really consider myself to be any kind of artist.

Great work, and what a fun job to have!

I'd like to say this art is uplifting but one can't have it all.

Dang.. That's some really nice stuff! The gold vest one is my favorite. :) And :lol: to the above poster..

Very cool!!! I am a huge body painting fan. I certainly appreciate the hard work that goes into it. I have yet to dip my toes into the hobbie, but it's something I have often thought of...


One day!

Oh, and be sure to thank your wife and neighbor for those of us that appreciate the art. It's nothing without great models!

that's really cool. I don't have talent to do that stuff, I'm more into erotic fingerpainting ;)

you do a great job. keep it up

From first to last it improves significanly, keep it up.

very nice. thanks for sharing.

Pretty cool I've seen work like yours in Playboy. always thought it would be interesting if a girl could go out in public with out getting busted. Pun somewhat intended.

that's pretty cool!

i like the ones on the chick with glasses the best

Very cool!

Very cool. I'd think the human body would be a hard canvas to work with.

I saw that first one on Stile the other day...