Georgie Kennett
Professional Make-Up Project
Body Painting Lesson
Preperation and Planning:
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It is important to negotiate with the client in order to create designs that capture the idea.
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Airbrushes are used a lot in film so it is vital to know how to clean one.
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Making sure all products that may be required are present in your kit on shoot or on set in a well set out bag.
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For body painting g strings should be in your kit to give to the models for the bodypainting.
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Shower gel, scrubbers and warm towels should also be added to the kit for the models to remove the make-up with and to dry them after.
Model Selection:
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Models with smaller breasts are often better because the body can be made to look like more of a flat painting rather than having the body parts still visible.
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The models comfort should be the most important factor the whole way through therefore having a hat and socks present for the model to wear to keep heat in their body is important as the models can get very cold. Hot water bottles can also be used to keep in body heat.
Budgeting:
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Making your own stencils can save money, using a hot pen can cut through plastic easier than a cutting knife whilst creating smooth lines in comparision to rigid stright lines.
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An average time for a bodypaint is around 3 hours depending on the complexity of the body paint, for instance if the body paint was being applied over prosthetic pieces the whole make-up application time would be longer.
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It is vital to stay organised throughout the application to cut the time down.
Research:
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Areas of research can include:
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Nature and the arts.
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Impressionist.
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Modern arts.
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Brian Froud for fantasy inspiration.
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Childrens mythical books.
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Instagram and Pinterest.
Designing:
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First of all find out requirements of what you will be working on to gather a clear vision of what you will be designing.
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Decide what products will be used, if there is a possibility the model will become sweaty waterbased paints should not be used as they will run.
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It needs to be determined how much of the body needs to be painted allowing you to create a time scale.
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Once a time of make-up application has been determined it is then important to decide whether an assistant is required in order to get the look finished.
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Anything that can be prepared before the the application should be done.
Products that can be used:
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Airbrush kit.
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Bodypainting brushes.
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Aqua Colours - must be waterproof if they are dancers etc.
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Paradise products are similar to makeup forever they are both cream based colours.
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Mac do a range of colours but they do stain heavily.
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In photography it is often required to apply a cream to the body to add shine.
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Kryolan body and face pearl and gold is often used for bodypainting.
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Supra Colours.
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Fixier Spray Kryolan or Ben Nye.
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Fullers earth used to add texture however be careful with bleach highlights as the hair can discolour.
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Latex can be applied over breasts.
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A strappless bra can be glued down with prosaid.
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Tissues, cotton buds, towels, shower items and razors.
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Derma sheild primers can be used to stop colour absorbing into skin.
Julia experimented with drawing patterns onto the body paint and also applying coloured fullers earth to the arm and creating patterns on it.
She started by applying a block of yellow aqua colour to the centre of the arm, she next applied a block of orange below the yellow and the green applied above the yellow. She then blended the colours with a flat paint brush.
Juila Set her work station up with all the products she required, for her body paint she used aqua colours, these would not be used for any situation where the model would be perspiring.
The next colour I proceeded to apply was white aqua colour with the same flicking technique, this added a mossy effect to the bark. The colours that had been applied had slightly covered up the black that was coming through from underneath the fullers earth.
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The last colour I flicked onto the fullers earth was brown, to balance the green colouring. Because the black underneath had been covered up with the flicked colour i re defined the pattern with more black aqua colour and a small brush.
The fullers earth continued to crack and unfortunately one of the parts had fallen off because the fullers earth does not stay on for very long, if the fullers earth needed to stay on for longer prosaid could be applied to keep it from falling off.
The colour up close has been made up of speckled colour all over. because I am trying to create tree bark the speckled effect was quite accurate to various old trees where either moss has grown or the bark has discoloured.
The picture above shows the colour in more detail, against the white background the colour looks more on the green side but as you can see in the final picture below the colouring is slightly browner.
Above is the final picture from the body painting experimentation lesson, comparing the make-up to the tree the areas that need improving are clear, the colour is slightly greener than the tree and also the fullers earth could do with being slightly flakier perhaps even applied in different levels to create the look of bark peeling away. However for a first attempt I am satisfied with the outcome and still think it is a possibility that I may use this effect on one of my final looks.
It is visible above that the fullers earth has begun to crack. I started to colour the fullers earth with a coarse haired brush by flicking the colour with my finger. I firstly used a green aqua colour, the fullers earth is naturally quite a nautral colour so I did not need to apply a huge amount of colour.
I mixed some fullers earth with water to create a thick paste. I applied the fullers earth with a wooden spatula and smoothed it over the whole area I had previously coloured. The fullers earth once dry cracks gradually however I wanted to create a pattern in the fullers earth which I have to do before it completely dries.
I wanted to create a tree bark effect so it was relevant to one of my project ideas to create a look promoting the beauty of nature where I was contimplating creating a full tree bark body paint. With the end of a thin brush I began to create irregular lines to replicate tree bark starting from the top and working my way down to create the effect shown above.
I started by applying a block layer of black aqua colour over the forearm before applying fullers earth so that when I created a pattern and when the fullers earth cracked the black would be visible underneath. I applied the colour with a flat foundation brush, idealy I would have used a square edge flat paint brush to create a more defined section.