So, my sister, codename: Apocalyptica the Flimflammer, has given me permission to share some more of her face painting. Please note that she owns these pictures; feel free to link to them but please do not gank them.
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| Barn. |
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| Blue jay. |
I asked Apocalyptica why she likes to face paint. She said a lot of interesting things in response, and I thought the following bit might resonate with the writers in my audience:
"...And I do it because it's such a challenge to take an image in my head and put it on a body, because there's all this stuff in the way...eyebrows and noses and a mouth, and the surface curves and won't cooperate...usually I start out with a certain inspiration and then I actually start to work with the body and it completely commandeers my process. Like that caribou I painted was supposed to be a scrabble board, but my leg objected. And the fruit bat was originally going to be a floral pattern based on a piece of fabric I bought. So I like being limited by the odd surfaces a body provides, because it produces surprises and there's a built-in respect for the body as the boss of the mind instead of the other way around. But it's also extremely frustrating. I am sometimes quite happy with my final product, but the first half of the process is normally awful and I feel like I will never make it work and I should just give up and take a shower."
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| (The caribou.) |
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| (The fruit bat.) |
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| Also, a passenger pigeon. And for the grand finale.... |
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Here's a picture of an actual
Malayan snail-eating turtle... |
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| and here's Apocalyptica. |
Thanks, sis, for sharing your pictures and your process :o).
