Monday, June 22, 2009

Naked Art

Airbrushed Art is around us all the time and often people don’t even realise what they are looking at is in fact airbrushed, but chances are when people have seen airbrushed art they have taken notice and liked it. This may be why so many marketing companies now use airbrushing to sell their product, especially in the form of Body art. The naked body will turn heads but advertisers can’t always just pay someone to walk around half naked and expect potential customers to remember what it was they were selling rather than how hot the model was.

Body painting uses the body as a canvas for advertising or just art itself. Lately Twisted Arts has been working with R n B Superclub body painting models on selected Friday nights at Tank nightclub Sydney which is a lot of fun and gets great attention from club goers. The event of the body painting can be an attraction in itself, the whole process of making someone naked appear to be wearing clothing blows people away. The Airbrush is great for body and face painting as the paint can be applied very thin so that it still covers but isn’t so think that it cracks. Another benefit of using the airbrush is that the paint dries much faster than if applied with a paintbrush, as well an airbrush is some what less intrusive than poking and prodding with a paintbrush. You can check out some more of our body painting pics in our gallery.

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Twisted Arts goes drag:

The Airbrush has become more and more widely used in the makeup industry due to its speed of application as well as its ease of applying soft gradations without hard makeup lines. Recently Twisted Arts Factory was asked to work with Make-up Effects Group Sydney (M.E.G.) to airbrush the makeup for the stage show of Priscilla. With a show such as Priscilla that has such dramatic makeup and yet requires 30second costume and makeup changes applying the makeup to the actors face between scenes in virtually impossibly. So M.E.G. created clear plastic masks that were specially moulded for each actors face covering the area around the eyes and bridge of the nose. Paint was then applied to these masks much the same way makeup would be applied to someone’s face with an airbrush. First a layer of white was dusted around the eyes of the mask working like a foundation. Then working from lightest colour to darkest the other colours were applied on top of each other in a drag queen makeup style. Again the airbrush was perfect for this as we could go in close to get sharp lines but fan areas out so it still had a makeup look that you wouldn’t be able to get with a paint brush. Once all the colour was applied a flesh tone paint was dusted around the edges of the mask with the airbrush so as the mask would blend into the actors face. Finally the masks were cleared in a matt finish so as not to reflect the stage lights.





Siting in the audience the masks read the same as if the makeup had been airbrushed straight onto the performers face, yet allows the performer to remove and change their makeup in seconds. This method of stage makeup not only saves time but also saves the stage company the money of paying for several makeup artists each show.

If you would like to learn special effects makeup M.E.G runs courses with guest teachers from Twisted Arts Factory. Visit www.megeffects.com.au for details.