Being a live painting at the Body Painting Competition

Body Painting competition in Trois-Rivières

March 18-19 was a body painting competition in a small town up the river from Montreal!

On Friday we packed up and drove to a bed and breakfast close to the Eco-Salon where the event was taking place. It was sooo cute! The house is apparantly 100 years old, you constantly hear the wood creaking, it reminds me of a typical grandmother’s house.

Doing some sewing at the B&B

 One of the rooms looked like the inside of a log cabin complete with a swing, we went around and took photos, I would love to go back one day for a photo shoot! Although I think Chris freaked out lady owner when she caught him at the top of the stairs taking light graffiti photos in the dark…. LOL “Eh! Qu’est qu’il fait la??!”

I want a swing like this in my room!

 

Saturday we were up early morning and had a homemade breakfast prepared for us by the lovely couple who owned the place 😉

At the competition they took very good care of models and artists alike! They had a little heater for each model, it was awesome, usually people aren’t so considerate and as a model I end up freezing as I’m being painted. They made sure we always had water tea or coffee.

SO let me tell you, being a body paint model isn’t super easy, you stand for many hours at a time (this time it was 6 hours, longest I did was 9 hours) while having your nearly nude body painted. You can’t exactly take a sitting break because your bum is covered in paint, lol. And once your hands are painted you can’t touch anything. At that point Chris was a very good sport and fed me! I’ve learnt now to start stretching from the beginning, everytime the artist is turned away or taking a mini break, I stretch, dance a little, and it keeps the aches and pains at bay! It really helped because after the competition I was just tired, and my patience meter was completely out, otherwise no problems.

April-Anna was the amazing artist who painted me! She’s also a good friend of mine so the 2 day stay ended up being like a mini-vacation!

www.aprilanna.com

Here are a few behind the scenes shots! The theme of the competition was nature local to Trois-Rivières.

Check out April’s blog for more about the artistic side of things and more photos!

Painting the Heron

Spritzing setting spray on the sparkles!

Looking up

Photography by: Chris Capicollo