“The girl cut in two occurred to me when I was about to paint,” Poque told the Daily Mail. “I started without any real plan of what I wanted to create. It was a momentary thought that sparked the idea…[and] I was able to get the result I wanted, the woman tearing herself apart. Photography is also integral to making this idea work, getting the angles of the shots right makes the art work come alive.”
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“The girl cut in two occurred to me when I was about to paint”
“I started without any real plan of what I wanted to create”
“Most of my paintings are created in the spur of the moment”
“It is important to be real and true to yourself, and in doing so be free”
“I was able to get the result I wanted, the woman tearing herself apart”
“The environment where I paint is really important….it was vital to get a strong sense of the skin tearing”
“Photography is also integral to making this idea work”
“[G]etting the angles of the shots right makes the art work come alive”
I believe that there are so many different ways to make money doing body painting. We must know that when we first discovered the art of body painting, we thought maybe we could make some temporary money at a party or fair. But there are many, many more possibilities to make money from body painting art, let see:
Here are few of the ways you could get paid to do body painting:
- Doing body painting at parties or ceremony. You could request hire yourself for a night or a day and get paid either by the hour or a flat fee for the event or that ceremony.
- Give painting party-goers before they go to a party or event. Themed or holiday parties would be a good opportunity for this. Make sure you mention that you could body paint their friends too.
- Can as a professional body painter for the theater. You could do one show with a discount for goers to get in the door and get some recognition, if you don't have a track record yet.
- Do travel with the circus as their 'in house' makeup artist.
- You can become the official body painter for a dance company. Again, you could request work for a low fee or even free to get in the door.
- Face painting could open up several opportunities, such as: parties, festivals, fairs, and special events all are possible places for you to set up shop. Just make sure that you are using proper, non-allergenic paints meant for face painting alone.
- Special events like reunion, graduations, celebrations, fundraisers, big holiday, and reunions.
- Sports events: painting fans in their team colors and symbols has had a long tradition such as football & badminton.
- Find Festivals around the world. There are many festivals specifically for body painting around the world, but there are many more that would be a great place for body painting. You can look up the festivals in your area, your city or may your country and find out how to become a vendor and what their requirements and rules are.
- You can teach others how to do body painting. You could hold a one or two time workshop, give ongoing group classes or even do an online body painting course.
