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Bodypainting Blog
Interview with James Kuhn!!
I'm Back!!!!
Taking the week off Blogging to get some painting done.
How sexy is Body painting for the body painter ?
Call out for Body painting models
Painting outside the lines!!!
TBP 2 Part II of interview with Craig Tracy (And Kevin Cuts his hair)
Kevin Vs the Clowns
Ask a Body Paintier
Bodypainting a Vollenteer model in public!
Colouring outside the lines 1
The Body Painting Gig from HELL!!!!!!!

I love a good challenge. I love testing my limits but this one event was a nightmare. 

It was about 10 years ago. I was working three jobs just to make ends meet and really needed a body painting gig to tip the scales of my pocketbook. As you know being an artist is a lot about being creative in front of the right person and this was not happening for me yet. 

I was at my day job (working at a failing art gallery/frame shop) bored out of my mind, being that I have not seen a customer in a few hours. I was about to go to lunch when my phone rang. On the other end was a "producer/agent" from Las Vegas. He wanted to hire me for some reality TV show and a major party this hotel was throwing. He had mentioned all my expenses would be covered but there was little in the budget to actually pay me directly. It was also mentioned that he had made arrangements for me to meet the curator of the Guggenheim museum, to talk to me about having a gallery showing or at least do a live body painting. Back then I was not married to a lawyer. So, sure! I will paint at your event!!! 

This is where things start to get interesting. 

So this agent had seen all my work on my website, and he was convinced it was all airbrush and would not accept anything "less" than an airbrush at his event. He kept telling me "I have spent $15,000 on lighting for this event. We need the best of everything!" Airbrush is not the ultimate art form, just another tool, but if the client thinks that is what he wants, OK! 

I had just requested the time off work when he calls a second time. "I want you to fly in 3 days early for an extra project. You can paint on canvas, right?" he said with the over exuberance I am starting to associate with his name.

"Sure, but what kind of painting am I going to be doing?"  

“Oh don't worry about that. We will take you shopping over here for everything you need. We just need an artist!!" 

In the record of my whole life I want to have the dumbest thing ever muttered out of my mouth to be recorded as "Sure thing"!

So I pack up all my art equipment for the flight. It's a short 2.5 hour trip from Sacramento to Las Vegas. So I find a big plastic tub and neatly put my compressor, airbrush and paints into the tub taking every precaution to pad something or secure it with tape. 

The flight itself was about average, but the baggage claim was a different story. At some point someone was less than gentle with my body painting kit. A gaping hole on the side of the box looked like a evil grin with brushes hanging out like jagged teeth. This was the start of a bad week! 

Gathering up my kit and rescuing a few escaped paint brushes, I head to the meeting point. I was surprised to see a limo driver holding a sign with my name on it. "This looks like my day is going to get better!" ..........WRONG!!!!!   

The agent was waiting for me beside the limousine. Now picture in your mind a male hairdresser with less fashion sense and now add the biggest car salesman grin. Just looking at him, there was something about him that radiated slimy!!  I was in the process of shaking his hand when he reaches up and pulls his business card out of my ear!! Great my agent is a washed up stage magician.

Computer upgrades = MORE PAINTING!
My brushes are wet again!!!
A few more paintings
Bodypainting tips!
New paintings