His canvases get goosebumps!

June 2, 2005 2:50 AM

Body Art. (NSFW) Martin Armand gives a whole new meaning to the term "anatomical art" with his airbrush paintings on bare skin. Five galleries of photos: the first page only links to a few larger images, but the rest of the galleries work fine. More bodypainting here (E-cards site, but very cool images), here (very nice "camouflage" body art), here (especially artistic) and via this previous MetaFilter thread. But remember; if you worky, no clicky the linky!
posted by taz (9 comments total)

If you have a problem with the third link, go to the main site, click "English" at the bottom, then "gallery".
posted by taz at 2:54 AM on June 2, 2005

Nice. And here is the opposite approach. Maybe these two ideas can be combined to create an infinite recursion perpetual motion machine.
posted by StickyCarpet at 4:02 AM on June 2, 2005

Very cool.
posted by dg at 5:34 AM on June 2, 2005

Body paint is overrated. I prefer my body alumminum sided.
posted by jonmc at 6:44 AM on June 2, 2005

Joanne Gair.
posted by taz at 9:20 AM on June 2, 2005

Yay, great links, taz - I love this stuff. And good connection with the Vanity Fair cover, fandago_matt - I had forgotten about that. Boy, I am loving some of Joanne Gair's work - really nice.
posted by madamjujujive at 10:03 AM on June 2, 2005

Neat-o! I wonder how they get the crotchular areas so smooth...
posted by Specklet at 11:16 AM on June 2, 2005

Why go to all the trouble? If you're just going to use them for posters, wouldn't it be easier to do it photoshop?

Now, if they had the models in situ...

Oh, Specklet.
posted by alms at 3:11 PM on June 2, 2005

I saw something like this at Drupa (the big Dusseldorf printing trade show) in 2000. The best part was they actually let you watch them paint the women.
posted by tommasz at 7:09 PM on June 2, 2005