2012 World Bodypainting Festival Video

Aug1

I haven’t been posting anything recently because we are in the midst of re-creating our company website, and linking this site to it. Until that’s complete, the items I’ve been putting up here this past month are not yet ready for prime time.

However, this just came through and it is worth a look:

World Bodypainting Festival 2012 video

220 teams of artists competed, in front of 30,000 spectators. It is a grueling competition that produces an amazing spectacle and I congratulate the winners and everyone who competed.

Kryolan Professional Makeup was nice enough to bring me there in 2009 to demonstrate their product and perform my show — and I am very happy to have had that opportunity, it is a not to be missed event.

The 15th annual World Bodypainting Festival wraps up in Austria (photoblog.msnbc.msn.com)
World Bodypainting Festival attracts 30,000 visitors (independent.co.uk)
2012 World Bodypainting Festival (celebs.icanhascheezburger.com)
Zebras – Body Painting at FABAIC 2012 with Kryolan Aquacolors (thestorybehindthefaces.com)
Gator Eating Jose: UV Body Painting at FABAIC 2012 with Kryolan Aquacolors (thestorybehindthefaces.com)

Abercrombie & Fitch Spring Quarterly 2000

Jul13

Abercrombie & Fitch Spring Quarterly 2000 cover, photograph by Bruce Weber

In October of 1999, the photographer Bruce Weber saw me painting animal faces in a mask-like style at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine’s annual St. Francis Day Fair. He hired me to do bodypainting for a photo shoot for the Abercrombie & Fitch Spring Quarterly 2000. Survivor was a hit on TV, so they were going for that, with the models like castaways — he gave me one instruction, “Lord of the Flies”, and when I told him I knew what he meant, he let me paint. I painted 19 models in about 3 hours in a swamp in Florida. He photographed each of the models separately (for the cover and an interior 4 page spread), and then the full group as the sun was starting to set. The foto he chose for the cover was of a model painted in a baboon spirit mask design I had been experimenting with all that summer, as we had been incorporating African mask styles into our faces for the opening of the Congo Gorilla Rain Forest at the Bronx Zoo that year. This gallery includes some of his photos (scanned from the quarterly), and a few of my own snapshots from that session. Return to our main website: agostinoarts.com

Return to our main website: agostinoarts.com

From African Masks to Abercrombie & Fitch

UV Makeup and Blacklight Special Effects

Jul13

We use UV makeups to create special effects under backlight for parties and events, and to add dayglo “pop” to our face and body painting. Special effects paintings range from fully painted glowing models, 60s style Go-Go Dancers and specialty bodypainting for clubs and evening events.

Working with UV makeups is like painting with light. We’ve used these effects for theme events ranging from “Under the Sea” Bar Mitzvahs to Woodstock themed corporate events. We’ve painted participants for Laser-Tag nights at colleges and created a Live Action Blacklight bodypainting stage performance as entertainment for conventions.

Christopher Agostino is recognized for his facility with UV makeups and has developed special techniques that allow him to create designs that work well under regular light as well as blacklight, which is especially useful for clubs and events where only part of a venue is under blacklight. His appearances for the Kryolan Professional Makeup company often include demonstrations of their UV Aquacolor makeups, widely considered the best UV product on the market.

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“Crocodile Eating Jose” – demonstrating the use of Kryolan’s UV Aquacolors to create optical illusions and special effects at the 2012 Face and Body Art International Convention

UV Blacklight Live Action Bodypaint Performance: