It was an interesting experience seeing Natalie Fletcher do her thing for the first time. Here I was at Astro Lounge, a local hot spot I have frequented for years and hung my art in, and in front of my eyes a talented artist is body painting a mostly nude woman in a very fan-fucking-tastic Iron Maiden Eddie the Head’esque way. No duh, I loved it. Fast forward to a first time shoot with a lovely new model in town who played human canvas for Natalie a few times and damn… of course I’m thinking I gotta meet this talent and kick around doing a project or three.
Now there’s the rub of course. “Artist painting nude woman/women” attracts ‘photographers’ like flies to cheesecake. Yeah I know, you thought I was going to say “shit” but I have to think that given a choice a fly would far prefer macking on an unattended piece of cheesecake far more than a pile of feces. But what do I know about the palette of the average fly?
Wait, where was I going with that? Oh yeah, the point was that the creative process between artist and, well, artist should be mutually beneficial and have some common editorial connection. I am fascinated with light painting on the human figure. Natalie literally paints on the human figure. Bam. Done. We’ll see where this may go creatively…
For now it was fun to simply witness her doing her thing and capture an image or three of her work. The girls who all volunteered were great! Patient, enthusiastic, cooperative, amazing. Great job all of you!
On a side note (though it’s actually the focal point of the entire project!), I think our local breweries should be sending Natalie a year’s supply of free beer. Seriously, your logos painted on the backs of lovely ladies for no other reason than it’s damn cool and paying homage to our home town and brewing industry: step up and start sending that beer! And thanks to Astro for being so accommodating and cool. You guys rock!
