Currently in a very sunny Portschach in Austria so I’m keeping it short (the lake, the sun and my girl are waiting :)). It doesn’t happen very often that I visit a “scene” festival or event where I’m just as a guest. This festival, the World Bodypaint Festival, I am just a guest, geeking with my camera, enjoying the parties and sight of beautifully painted people, no stress, no obligations… love it 🙂

In the coming days I’ll be updating this entry with more pics (from my hand!) and provide more information, this is a fun festival. We even met a photographer from BoundCon 🙂

Body Circus

Below two snapshots of Dutch-Dame at the BodyCircus, the opening party of the festival.

Day 1

First day is done… actually it’s the third day that I’m writing this… there’s too much to see, too much to do and to busy being proud at my girl 🙂

First day was a full bodypaint and Dutch-Dame’s painter for the day was BodyMention. Putting on the paint took about 6 hours. After that time BodyMention and Dutch-Dame had to pass the judges and the photo area.

The final part of the day was a presentation of the paint by Dutch-Dame on the mainstage of the festival. A presentation is kind of a short show (2 minutes) with music, choreography and lights. 

Day 2

The second day of the festival was a face paint competition. Dutch-Dame’s paintster was BodyMention.

Same mantra, paint, judges, photo area and presentation.

I’m beginning to understand (I think :)) the bodypaint world and bodypaints in general. It’s not that different from my “normal” world (Japanese bondage and fetish) with two exceptions, the bodypaint world is more accepted and although there is a lot of competition the atmosphere is very relaxed between painters and models.

Below two shots from the face paint (yes, I got to do some “bondage”, BodyMention got inspired by my work and has added a form a bondage in the face paint, very cool :)).

Now, hurry to the last day. BodyMention and Dutch-Dame made it into the finals! 

Day 3

Already a number of days back from Austria and the World Bodypaint Festival, I still owe you the third day, the finals. What can I say, my girl and her painter made it into the finals and for today had to make another full body paint. This is the result of their effort

Unfortunately they didn’t win but there is always next year! Their final ranking I believe was number 8 in facepaint and 25th in full bodypaint (of a total of 300+ painters?). Not a bad result imvho 🙂