Dirty Show
January 7th, 2007
This photo of Gaea in body paint will be in the next “Dirty Show” in Detroit next month. I have to admit that I debated for quite a while about whether or not to enter the Dirty Show. It really isn’t oriented toward what I’m doing with my work, but their approach and mine do seem to have a small overlap, and it’s nearby and I know a lot of people who do participate, so in the end I decided to go ahead and see how they reacted to my work. As usual, they didn’t pick the ones I thought they would, but I like this photo so I’m happy it will be shown. Now I just have to get it matted and framed and shipped up to them by the deadline.
This shot was done after Geaa and I had done a body painting shoot. Someone had told me to try mixing powdered water-soluble paint in baby oil to get a nice surface effect. It worked for the effect, but was very unmanageable because the paint never dried and made a huge mess. After shooting for a while we stopped and Gaea started wiping the paint off. I saw what it looked like and told her to stop and get back in front of the background. This is the result. It pays to keep paying attention…you never know when the best photo is going to turn up.
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