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The Mursi and other tribes of the region often paint their bodies with a paste made from limestone. The main purpose of the paint is to act as an insecticide, but it also become a means of artistic expression as lines and dots and patterns are often drawn on the body.
The Mursi also often adorn themselves with plants - fruits, leaves, branches, etc. The child on the left wears the fruit a plant from the Solanum family (the same family which brings us tomatoes and deadly nightshade). I am unable to determine which species of Solanum this is - perhaps Solanum aculeastrum.
Mago National Park, Omo Valley, Ethiopia
Since 1998 Europe’s most colourful event has taken place every year in Seeboden, Austria.
The “World Bodypainting Festival” sponsored by Kryolan is the biggest art event in the bodypainting theme and thousands of visitors admire the wonderful work of the participants.
Aritsts from 40 nations worldwide come to this unique event and put body art into the mountain and lake scenery.
The festival week from July 12th – 18th 2010 contains the
* WBF Academy
* BodyCircus & Side Events
* 3 Main days in the “Bodypaint City” in the Klauberpark Seeboden
Bodypaint Consorcio Amigo, Feria de Valencia 2008. Bodypaint: Pablo Fermin+ Alida Figueroa. Modelo: Jessika Sanchez
Centerfold model wearing a body painted Marine uniform and nothing else. Pin up style model in body painting. This is the part to the 2010 Military Body Painting calendar. www.bodypainter.net
developed in Black & White with a touch of Comic Style
Model: Adrian Dorfmeister
Make Up: Nadja Hluchovsky
Dassanetch Girl from Omorate village, near Omo river, with nice (?) scarifications on the shouldern a beauty sign for girls, and for men, the sign that they killed enemy.
South Ethiopia.
© Eric Lafforgue
Model: Sammia Shoots
Painters: Syl Verberk (IG: www.instagram.com/sylliefaces/ ), Sandra Rijke (IG: www.instagram.com/sandrarijke/ )
Bodypaint festival, Hoogstraten, Belgium. August 2010
Artist: Yvonne Zonnenberg-Hughes (NL)
Model: Michaela Hughes