Body Painter Rich

26/08/2024

Well look who made it into the press!

https://sacramento.newsreview.com/2024/08/20/sacramento-artist-turns-n**e-models-into-empowerment-pieces/

Thank you to model Tamica and photographer Dan Hood for saying such nice things about working with me

Timely reports from Sacramento News & Review writers on breaking news and big issues.

14/08/2024

OK- I can die happy now. Just had a lovely little text conversation with JOANNE GAIR, the EMPRESS of body paint art.

05/07/2024

Yesterday we celebrated our Independence Day. But what good is autonomy if you are in the process of destroying yourself.

Recent Supreme Court decisions and laws enacted in various states of our Union are taking rights away from most Americans while empowering the extremely wealthy who control major corporations.

Meanwhile women are losing rights daily, trans people are under attack, and women are losing their ability to access basic health care.

And if we continue down this path there is literally a plan in place to label art like this forbidden and shut down freedom of speech all in the name of a particular flavor of religion.

Think about that.



This is not ok.

04/07/2024

Freedom of religion and freedom from religion. Believe what you want and let me do the same.

Which also means YOU don’t get your decide what the rest of us get to say, do, show, see, or think about.

This is why I think the 1st amendment may well be the sexiest thing our Government has ever come up with.

04/07/2024

Birthdays are a great time to reflect on where you are, and what you need to do to survive the next year intact.

19/06/2024

Happy Juneteenth! Tamica and I collaborated on this piece as an expression of her passion and her culture. I was honored to assist her in the creative process of self expression.

Juneteenth is a celebration of strength, endurance, and freedom. If you aren't familiar with it, I strongly suggest you look it up and learn.

18/06/2024

Symbols of magical transformation and power.

06/06/2024

Humans: hopelessly messy and heartbreakingly beautiful…simultaneously.

04/06/2024

Hoping to shoot more bodypaint later this month. If you are ALSO hoping to shoot later this month (or at any other time) I would encourage you to fill out this form I created. It helps me to see your interests and availability at a glance so I can contact models who are interested in different styles in the easiest way possible for them.
https://forms.gle/tDtP9VQsH8f8CX7L9

Thanks!

02/06/2024

Going to be painting again soon!

02/06/2024

Ok… I was planning on doing some exciting new work… but now the pressure is on! I’m being followed by bodypaint GODDESS Joanne Gair!!

27/05/2024

Looking forward to shooting more photos soon. Any requests?

22/04/2024

I know some people like don't like AI, and others just love it. Me...I'm exploring my feelings. But I also know as an artist that my stuff has been scraped and used, so I am feeling like using it as a tool is only fair at this point. The genie is out of the bottle in my mind.

Anyways, here is something I have been working on. I start with one of my own photos, I run that through AI and then I mess with layering and backgrounds and more.

I'm specifically looking for a mood, an idea, and I thought this one turned out pretty well.

07/04/2024

Life is brief, celebrate each day.

05/04/2024

And sometimes we don’t care AT ALL about the details. But either way… we have a blast creating art!

05/04/2024

Sometimes we get into the details….

03/04/2024

Thinking back to the mermaids in my memory

Photo by Dan Hood
Model is Olivia

02/04/2024

No- if you are the 15th biggest company on the Fortune 500... I am not going to let you lowball me as an artist!

28/03/2024

Explore the darker spaces and let your inner beast out to play.

Interested in modelling? https://forms.gle/WWYMVn81DFjU5CjC7

15/12/2023

The lovely Lucy

11/12/2023

Kate Cox lives in Texas.

She is pregnant.

Doctors have informed her that her baby has a major fetal abnormality. The chance of a live healthy baby are zero, the chance of a live birth of any kind is very very slim.

There is also a chance that carrying the pregnancy to term might render her infertile, but she wants another child. There is also the very real chance that carrying the pregnancy to full term could kill her.

This week she approached a judge and had to ask PERMISSION to follow her Doctor's advice and terminate the pregnancy. The judge GRANTED her permission, and the SUPREME COURT OF TEXAS has blacked that decision so that politicians will have a chance to weigh in.

Think about that, and what it means for civil liberties.

Think about the fact that if she wanted to buy a gun to end a life it would so much simpler for her in Texas.

Think about the fact that in many states in the USA religious fundamentalists are pushing for this same level of control over women and they are getting it.

How can we allow this to happen in the "Land of the Free"?

Remember the pledge of allegiance? "Under God" was added in the 50's...but "with Liberty and Justice for All" has been there the whole time.

I am not a fan of abortion, but my opinion shouldn't matter... a woman should have the right to control her own destiny, and preserve her own life.

(This image is based on a body paint photo, and digital collage including some elements created using AI)

09/12/2023

Silver Katt

24/11/2023

Kat's Kolors

24/11/2023

Great to have a partner in crime who always has your back!
Featuring Dasha and Tanya

23/11/2023

Thankful for all the AMAZING wonderful talented humans that I have been able to work with this year... (Only some of whom are posted here)

22/11/2023

All my shoots are great experiences. But today was the kind where everything just WORKS. Can’t wait to share more!!!

17/11/2023

Everyone needs someone to get in trouble with sometimes.

Who is your partner in crime?

(And that need stays, even at my age)

27/10/2023

More tape fun!