Like a broken record perhaps…
I know. I have written about this several times.
Bodypainting is an amazing form of (self)-expression for me. It’s something that no amount of clothing can come close to, because paint on a skin can be applied in so many ways that a tailor can’t ever keep up.
And, like in the image on the left, anyone can paint someone else and go crazy. Poor tailor yet again.
Skin wins.
The efficiency of bodypainting.
I can hear you wonder what this means. But, according to me, there is an efficiency to bodypainting over clothes. When you want to be very varied (I admit, those 2 words next to each other made me grin 🙂 ), you will need a lot of stuff.
Lets start with clothes. Being varied with clothes means something like this. And maybe that isn’t even enough. You will need a pile of clothes that is going to set your wallet back quite some. We all know the price of clothes, right? Not many of us are full-time naturists, so clothes come into the picture at various stages of life, no matter we don’t like that.
This is not uncommon among naturists, for obvious reasons. Being nude is the idea, so variation with clothes is already a no-no.
Then there is paint. A can of paint can go a long way. Service a lot of bodies. And it can create anything you set your mind to. Of course, the final result will also depend on your painting skills, but using paint is a lot easier than making clothes, I hope we all agree on that.
So here we have a nice number of things in which paint is more efficient than clothes. Usually it’s cheaper, it’s more versatile, it has less of a learning curve and with less you can do more. If you have clothes, those will only fit certain people, where paint fits anyone.
The beauty of the body.
And with all this, I haven’t even brought up the beauty of the body, and how it can be emphasised by paint. And we can do that in the most personal way. If three people are asked to paint one specific model, you will end up with three entirely different designs of the same starting point.
This is why I love bodypainting.
Do you have experience with bodypainting? Either having done it or having it done to you? What was it like? I am curious.
Great post Paul. I have to laugh as although I paint and draw in the nude as it makes cleaning up faster and I don’t get any paint on my clothes. That being said, I don’t like getting my hands dirty so I was never a fan of finger painting! LOL!
I’m laughing too! And thank you for your comment. 🙂
Body painting has always fascinated me as well.
I have no experience with bodypainting at all, but am very curious and would like to try it out, mainly being bodypainted. I have no artistic streak so painting myself might turn out not so nice.
I have one question though. Do you need a special paint that can be wash off your body without problems as I think normal paint will stick on for long….?
If anybody feels like painting me…
Hi Hans,
There are specific body-paint paints.
You can learn more at https://www.trinamerry.com/body-painting-nyc/blog/2018/5/14/how-to-choose-your-bodypaint