Maria keeps on practicing..

Hey guys,


the last few weeks were full of preparation for my live painting with Bruce Rimmell. Bruce ,an amazing british aritst, exhibited his "Minoan Honey and Other Stories" at Praxisgemeinschaft Marienplatz in Witten. I was asked to perform a face-painting there in respond to his very filigrane minoan-inspired art. 
Photographer Barbara Zabka took photos there and as soon as I have the photos, I'll post them here, I promise!

Right now, I wanted to show you another thing I did some time ago. I wanted to do a fluoro-painting but neither had the time to prepare a shooting nor a fix idea. So i just asked my lovely boyfriend Mario to shave his face and let me get started painting without any plan. The picture I took -unfortunately- is in bad quality, but as it was just a sketch-on-skin and my very first try, I didn't have a photo-set built up. 
But it shows more or less what my intention was. A colourful 30-minutes-fluoro-facepainting for beginners.

I hope you like it.

Thanks to Mio, my love, for supporting me and always being by my side when I need someone to cheer me up. I love you!

To all of you, I'll post the last exhibition's photos as soon as I have them.

Lots of love,
Maria 

Back in Town! Poison Ivy Shooting in Witten

Hey again!

I know i haven't posted anything in decades. Shame on me! 

There was so much trouble going on in the last few months. I changed my location and moved back to my hometown in Germany for health reasons and had to leave Barcelona behind.

Nevermind, I started a new life learning a new job and going on even more powerful than ever!!

I got some great news! In June I'm gonna paint in a gallery in NY! I got Carla Goldberg's confirmation a few weeks ago and am kind of so excited to go there!! In september there will be an exhibition of Mirca Art Group in Cologne where I'll expose 1-2 pictures of my works. Life couldn't get any better right now :)

For further information about the event and the exhibition pls contact me!

So, I was about to tell you about the last great shooting I did!

I was asked by a friend to make a Poison Ivy disguise for her for a game convention in Essen, Germany. I had 1 day to finish it and in my opinion it turned out great!

My parents helped me dying the hemp, glueing the leaves and stealing ivory from our garden :D

Unfortunately the photos didn't become good at all. So I had to ask another friend of mine, the amazing Elena, to be my Poison Ivy model for 1 day.

We had a fun time watching TV, eating Pizza and chatting a lot during the painting session.

We didn't have any further photo-equipment, so her houseplant and my Canon 1000D had to help out :D

Quote Elena: "Gosh, I don't want to take it off anymore! Can't I go to school like this tomorrow?"

Thanks for this amazing day, Elena&Jan!! You're such a great couple and I'm glad to know you!

Here's the fruit of my work and Elena's great patience (and Jan's incredible talent of lighting ;D)

I really hope you like it! :)

xOxO
Maria!

Summer experience part III: Witten, Germany

Hey again!

I wanted to complete my summer-story with a shooting in my hometown. Just by chance I met an old friend, Robin, who told me that he was kind of building up an own business with a few friends, all designers, photographers and artists. I told him that I just came back from the IBF and the WBPF and he asked me if  I was interested to just "bodypaint" in his studio one day as he has a model friend who always wanted to try bodypainting. Just 3 days after we met in his studio and I got to know the model, Steffi, a very nice and pretty girl and from the start we got along very well. We were two painters, me and my friend Raquel who joined me this day. We thought about something "wild" like a jungle-painting in powerful colours. Actually we went there without any further sketched design and just "let it flow".

This is what came out:

 

So, this is actually all that I did during this summer, the rest was all chill-out with my family and friends.

So then, good night and sweet dreams to everyone!!

Summer experience part II: IBF, Bingen

Hey guys,

as I promised last month, I make a new post telling you about my time at the IBF Bingen. 

Actually I had no idea that there was another bodypainting festival in Germany just one week after the great time I had in Seeboden. When some of my friends I met in Austria told me to go there, I didn't even think about it. I booked the flight and applied for the contest the day I came back home from Austria.

The next few hours I spent thinking about what I was going to do and finally I decided to make a mermaid, as the topic was "Fantasy" and the festival took place just next to the Rhine.

I got inspired by pictures I found all over the Internet, photos, comics, paintings and some fairytales I remembered from my childhood. The day after I did the headpiece which was kind of difficult as I was under time-pressure and, believe it or not, I COULDN'T FIND ANY SHELLS IN BARCELONA! So i had to wing it a lot with things I found all over my place (like fridge-magnets, stones, bast and doily).

First of all, I was quite impressed about the countryside of Bingen with the Rhine and the vineyards all over the hills around the town. A very charming place!! I actually am from Germany but I had never been to this part of Germany before so I was kind of surprised to see Germany from a tourist's point of view ;)

I was so glad to see faces of people I got to know in Austria and to spend time with them. And also I really enjoyed meeting new people like our wonderful model Sabine (thanks to Wolf again for presenting her to us!!) or Erasmo from Malaga, our tent-mate ;D

After all, it was great fun there, making new experiences like always having a rescue blanket when painting outdoors and not to paint too many small details when presenting on stage.

And remember ALWAYS to have 2 copies of the music you want to play in the presentation.

Here's a photo of our model Sabine, taken by Keck Photography. 

I really miss you guys and can't wait to see you again in march to rock Almere! =)

Summer experience part I : WBF, Austria

Hey there!

I just wanted to post some pictures of works I made during this summer.

During a bodypainting demonstration in class I heard about the WBF in Austria and thought "I don't have any experience yet....why not gain some?" and booked the hotel and the flight the next day. The best decision I ever made!

The topic was "subcultures" and I decided to make a mixture of Gothic-, Lolita- and Fetish-style.

My friend and schoolmate Alba joined me and we made a wig of coloured hemp and stuff like heavy chains and keys, symbolizing the fetish side of our design.

Fortunately we found an amazing model, KB from New York, who made a great job!

Here is a picture taken by the photographer, Ulf Schering, in the backstage area of the WBF Seeboden.

Next time I'll tell you about our work in the IBF-Bingen competition!

Have a nice day, everybody!

x0x0x0

Hello world, here I am!

Hey guys!
My name is Maria and I'm writing this blog to publish photos of my artworks as a make-up artist and bodypainter. I'm 21 years old and live in Barcelona/Spain and this summer I will start my 2nd year at a college for make-up artists. My education there implies everything from hairdressing, wigdressing, SFX make-up, beauty and fashion make-up, body- and facepainting and also lots of theory like anatomy, knowledge about chemistry and stuff. Actually the thing I like most is bodypainting, that's why I tried my luck at 2 bodypainting-festivals this summer just to gain experience and get to know people. 
The 2 festivals were the greatest experience I had in this kind of artworks and I really really enjoyed it! I met amazing people who are great artists and great models and I really was surprised how close they are to each other although they were rivals at the contest. As they all say "where ever you go, you are part of the bodypainting-family", that's the spirit and I really love it! 


I want to thank everyone who guided me on this way, those who help me, those who lift me up when I'm down and make me go on to achieve my goal: to spread bodypainting-colour all over the world!


As Wiser would say: "I'm going to kill it!"


Saludos,
Maria