NZ Body Art News & Creative workshops

NZ Body Art News & Creative workshops

Last chance to subscribe for Workshops

Registrations for the earliest workshops (Face & Body Art and Mask & Prop making) close on Monday 11 July. If you, or your friends, family or colleagues would like to join, then please subscribe before the end of this week.

Below is a short overview of our classes. Detailed workshop descriptions can be found on www.bodyartawards.co.nz/workshops.html.

Please note that the price for the Digital Body Art workshop price is now adjusted, now up to $95 less payment.

Face & Body Art

with Yolanda Bartram (World Champion SFX Bodypainting 2010)

Sunday 17 & Monday 18 July

The Face and Body Art workshop starts you up with all the basics to create the most professional looking face and body paint designs! You will learn about body painting materials, hygiene practice and setting up a complete design by yourself.

This workshop also teaches you various useful sponge & brush techniques, and shows you how to make fluent lines, teardrops, dots, curls and much more. Subjects such as colour choices and blending will also be covered.

Price per day

Student

Unregistered $ 85

Registered $ 60

Non-student

Unregistered $ 125

Registered $ 95

Mask & Prop making

with Magdalena O'Connor

Saturday 16 & Tuesday 19 July

Learn how to create powerful visual impact with props for stage and photography with inexpensive materials. This two-day workshop takes you through the whole process of making an extremely convincing mask or prop. Moreover, common challenges like making light pieces and pieces that move with the body are also addressed.

Everyone will be able to profit from this workshop as it focuses on learning inventive and inexpensive ways to create absolutely stunning designs from common materials.

Price per day

Student

Unregistered $ 70

Registered $ 45

Non-student

Unregistered $ 115

Registered $ 80

Airbrushing workshop

with Michael George

Weekend 23-24 July (beginners) & weekend 30-31 July (advanced)

Airbrushing is an art form which allows you to create the most delicate and precise paint designs possible. It's is one of those skills you can always put into practise, for example in customisation of cars, fashion, surfboards and musical instruments.

You can learn all about airbrushing at our beginner's workshop, regardless of your skill level. You will explore the basics of airbrushing, and engage in some practical hands-on work. We also offer an advanced airbrush workshop for the more experienced, which will set you up with useful and inventive techniques to help you create like a real pro.

Price per day

Student

Unregistered $ 75

Registered $ 50

Non-student

Unregistered $ 120

Registered $ 90

Wounds, Horror & Gore

with Celeste Strewe

Saturday 23 & Sunday 24 July

This 2-day workshop will set you up with all special effects and painting techniques needed to create the most wonderful gore. Get started with fake blood, latex, skin gels, modeling wax and more to make people look sick, dead or demonic. Learn how to apply makeup effects and special materials on the body to create all sorts of 3D wounds. Surprise everyone around you with your most realistic and horrific creatures for halloween parties, carnivals, your own horror movies, or just for fun!

Price per day

Student

Unregistered $ 70

Registered $ 45

Non-student

Unregistered $ 115

Registered $ 80

Hairups

with Sandi Cutts

Saturday 23 July

Take hairdressing to the extreme and defy the laws of gravity with the Hairups workshop! This course will teach you everything about the secrets of hairups, but also takes hairdressing a step further, as you will also learn about adding all kinds of hair-accessories. Moreover you can have lots of fun with extreme wigmaking.

Price per day

Student

Unregistered $ 95

Registered $ 45

Non-student

Unregistered $ 115

Registered $ 70

Digital Body Art

with Scott Spencer (Weta Workshop)

Saturday 30 July

Discover the extraordinary world of digital body painting and virtual SFX makeup with Scott Spencer of Weta Workshop in Wellington.

This workshop will teach you the basics of ZBrush, a revolutionary program for digital sculpting and painting. It provides all the tools needed to complete the 2D or 3D body art concepts you have in mind, in an very short amount of time. You will use program features to plan out a body paint design on a 3D male or female body.

It might look complex, but trust us, anyone can do it! After this workshop you can create your very own unique 3D designs in a revolutionary fast and adjustable way, saving lots of time and effort. This is how they do it in the film industry!

Price per day

Student

Unregistered $ 95

Registered $ 65

Non-student

Unregistered $ 130

Registered $ 90

World Bodypainting Festival Austria 2011

As some of you may know, the World Bodypainting Festival in Austria has just come to an ending. This is the greatest annual bodypainting event of the world, and artists from 40 nations worldwide come to this unique event and put body art into the mountain and lake scenery.

This year Mem Bourke, our executive and creative director, has earned herself the 19th place in the Special Effects category. We are all very proud of her and congratulating her with this result, of which you can see the pictures here below.

Also Yolanda Bartram, the other participating New Zealander, has been off for the World Festival. This year she became 4th out of 60 painters. We would like to congratulate her as well with again an amazing result.

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