This book offers a magnificent collection of images created by photographer Art Ketchum, featuring the body painting artistry of Jim Brando. The first section has a step-by-step description of the body painting process, complete with a list of materials used. The additional chapters show the finished work, with behind-the-scenes images of the models being painted and preparing for the shoot. Model comments and painting hints are also included. Divided into five sections, the viewer will be fooled by the incredibly realistic clothing. The unique floral and fantasy creations will delight and captivate the viewer. The lingerie section is stunning, with meticulous detailing on "lace" and the illusion of sheer fabric. Tastefully created, this book contains extraordinary photographs of beautifully painted models. For over three years, Ketchum and Brando built this amazing collection of images. This book is destined to be talked about, shown to friends, and known as a showcase of the best body painting ever created.

This book gives you how-to instructions & simple steps which allow for improvisation & creative flair in your body art. Inside you¿ll find 25 designs, from around the globe, including: Celtic knots; African geometric patterns; East Asian designs; Hawaiian flowers; & more! The book comes in a box with five tattoo pens & 25 original fashion designs. Armed with these, detailed instructions to get your started, & several drawing methods & tips for finishing & preserving tattoos, you¿ll quickly learn to master the basic tattoo shapes. With just a little practice you¿ll soon be producing a myriad of colorful, eye-catching, & trendsetting designs! Illustrations.

Using the pens in this kit, you can paint the body beautiful with designs from Asia, India, Africa, Mexico and Celtic Ireland. The book shows how to tattoo on key areas such as hands, feet, wrists, ankles and shoulder blades. Basic tattoo shapes and the 10 basics of tattoo design are covered.

The seminal volume on body painting and adornment by the world’s preeminent photographers of African culture. Following the international masterpiece Africa Adorned, Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher have focused on the traditions of body painting spanning the vastly unique cultures of the African continent. In a contemporary world so fascinated with tattoos and piercings, Beckwith and Fisher document the origins of these fashionable adornments as passed down through African tribal culture. Featured are portraits of the richly colored, detailed, and exquisite body paintings of the Surma, Karo, Maasai, Himba, and Hamar peoples, among others. Drawing from expeditions in the field and firsthand experiences with African peoples and cultures over the past thirty years and with more than 250 spectacular photographs, this is the definitive work on the expressiveness and imagination of African cultural painting of the human body.

LEARNING HOW TO CAPTURE SUCH QUALITY HAS NEVER BEEN EASIER!Inside you'll find guidelines for rendering accurate skin tones in a variety of media, including watercolor, oil and pastel. You'll begin with a review of the five essential painting elements (drawing, value, color, composition and edges), then learn how light and color influence the appearance of skin tones. Best-selling artist Chris Saper provides the advice and examples that make every lesson and technique easy to understandâ€"immediately improving the quality of your work. You'll discover how to: • Paint the four major skin color groups (Caucasian, African American, Asian, and Hispanic) • Refine these colors into dozens of possible variations within each group • Select your palette and mix hues for clean, beautiful colors • Determine the color and temperature of light that falls on your subject • Paint direct and indirect sunlight, artificial light and highlights of light • Master the four elements that determine color in shadow • Use photographic references when you can't paint directly from life You'll also find seven step-by-step demonstrations and an appendix of sample color charts for each major skin type under a range of lighting variations. It's all you need to bring your portraits to life!

"Haunting ... teems with raw emotion, and McCullough deftly captures the experience of learning to behave in a male-driven society and then breaking outside of it."—The New Yorker "I will be haunted and empowered by Artemisia Gentileschi's story for the rest of my life."—Amanda Lovelace, bestselling author of the princess saves herself in this one A William C. Morris Debut Award Finalist 2018 National Book Award Longlist Her mother died when she was twelve, and suddenly Artemisia Gentileschi had a stark choice: a life as a nun in a convent or a life grinding pigment for her father's paint. She chose paint. By the time she was seventeen, Artemisia did more than grind pigment. She was one of Rome's most talented painters, even if no one knew her name. But Rome in 1610 was a city where men took what they wanted from women, and in the aftermath of rape Artemisia faced another terrible choice: a life of silence or a life of truth, no matter the cost. He will not consume my every thought. I am a painter. I will paint. Joy McCullough's bold novel in verse is a portrait of an artist as a young woman, filled with the soaring highs of creative inspiration and the devastating setbacks of a system built to break her. McCullough weaves Artemisia's heartbreaking story with the stories of the ancient heroines, Susanna and Judith, who become not only the subjects of two of Artemisia's most famous paintings but sources of strength as she battles to paint a woman's timeless truth in the face of unspeakable and all-too-familiar violence. I will show you what a woman can do. ★"A captivating and impressive."—Booklist, starred review ★"Belongs on every YA shelf."—SLJ, starred review ★"Haunting."—Publishers Weekly, starred review ★"Luminous."—Shelf Awareness, starred review

Presents an illustrated look at 100 notable paintings throughout history depicting women and the female form.