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Incredible Living Painting With Realistic Body Paint
Usually, we admire that the artists can create characters vividly, while this time, we will introduce a different artist who turns living, breathing people into characters in oil painting. That is Alexa Meade.
Alexa Meade is a 23-year-old artist based in Washington, DC area. She spent four summers interning on Capitol Hill and in 2008 was a press staffer on the Obama Campaign. She graduated in 2009 from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY with a bachelor’s degree in political science. She never attended art school nor has she ever taken advanced painting courses. In August 2008, Meade began to experience a new genre of painting.
She applies acrylic paint to the surfaces of people, objects, and walls in a broad brushstroke that mimics the appearance of brushwork in a painting in a technique that she innovated. When the three-dimensional tableau is viewed in a two-dimensional photograph, it appears to be an oil painting. After 9 months of practice, she was able to develop a process for painting on people and unveiled her “Reverse Trompe L’Oeil” installation in October, 2009. The follow are some of her works, are you deceived?
Post published on 11th April 2010
Diego Daly
April 12th, 2010 at 5:58 am
great idea! awesome results.
psyche
April 13th, 2010 at 4:53 am
awesome.
Dave - Website Design Essex
April 15th, 2010 at 11:56 pm
This is amazing! Really nice work. I’m sure we’ll see alot of people copying this style now.
Paco
May 1st, 2010 at 3:26 pm
THIS TRULY AMAZING, NO DOUBT WERE ARE THINKING MORE THAN EVER OUT OF THE BOX
Mat
May 13th, 2010 at 9:04 am
that was awesome
seriously cool!
opus
June 13th, 2010 at 11:15 am
this isn’t a good idea and then she didn’t even do it well
Gustav
September 16th, 2010 at 5:51 am
Very very AWSUM!!!! Well done!!!
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October 26th, 2010 at 5:21 am
i like body paints because it could be used to portray art using your own body-`-
Carpet Shampooer ·
November 13th, 2010 at 4:22 pm
body paints are quite nice when you are out on a pool party or just about any party ”;
abstracto
November 21st, 2012 at 5:21 am
Great work. Amazing effects!
Gotye
November 22nd, 2012 at 2:16 pm
Now you’re just somebody that I used to know.
Robert Hosmer
December 7th, 2012 at 12:49 pm
Super Cool Work
Mujib
December 16th, 2012 at 7:17 am
That’s wonderful painting. I can’t do that things.
paige
December 19th, 2012 at 5:08 pm
this is just incredible. i’d love to have this done to me
Umi Kaze
December 31st, 2012 at 5:40 am
The pictures look very cool, but I wonder if the artist knows the fact that acrylic paints arent safe for skin contact since she has had no training in an art school.
AJ
January 17th, 2013 at 5:22 am
Absolutely love it.
Orikinla Osinachi
January 23rd, 2013 at 7:54 am
These are very bold and challenging oil paintings by an artist who certainly knows that Art is more than an imitation of life and nature.
Wilfred Manuel W
January 29th, 2013 at 10:02 pm
beautiful & inspiring.
Ruby Craft
February 4th, 2013 at 11:15 am
This is so interesting to me. I haven’t seen such!
Coffee94
February 5th, 2013 at 7:26 am
OhMyGod! This is insanely crazzy! she is really amazing!
vvsig
February 19th, 2013 at 8:08 am
a live painting
Brandon
March 10th, 2013 at 9:58 am
These photos and artwork are absolutely fantastic!
moe
March 15th, 2013 at 10:16 pm
You have some very nice painting here. Keep up the good work.
Janice
March 22nd, 2013 at 8:40 am
I don’t envy the washing off process
Different idea like people being statues. Love it.
Anne Guetschow
April 14th, 2013 at 2:20 pm
It makes my heart skip a beat and my breath stops when I see your paintings. SO VERY ORIGINAL. A new genre! Alexa, you have found a new medium; of course, you know that. Thank you! check out the work of jane filer: http://www.janefiler.com. She is another Master.
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