Do the paints show up under normal light?

Faintly... though it's about the difference between hilighter on skin in normal light vs. blacklight: it's not the same effect, sometimes it even looks kind of gross (mostly when you use a regular brush and things get blobby... airbrush is smoooooth so if anything, you can usually barely see this airbrushing under normal light).

very cool

ok, this is brilliant

you could make an art show with just this as the main theme XD

If only UV tattoo paint weren't so hard to come by...

Rather UV tattoo ink.

Yeah, sadly it's carcinogenic from what I hear. I met a girl once with a tiny star on her wrist that glowed, but I think she did it herself with a needle and hilighter ink. Not exactly clean or profressional! Nor feasable for anything much bigger than a dime, I imagine. This star was even smaller than that.

Drat, I was just going to ask about that. I remember reading an article a while back about someone who had developed UV tattoos and I've been interested since. Oh well.

Those neon colors are so beautiful, and that takes a different type of skill all together to work on a human canvas. I have to say, that garden of eden painting looks the best to me. I mean, the control of the paint for lighting, that's just amazing.

Holy shit that rocks my face off O.O

Fing Sweet!

very fun! i love doing bodypaint

now that's a real trip! I wish I can get the air brush machine thing <3 8[ but can't afford it man. when ya painted that out, was it under the UV light or in the regular light? The spiral one is my fav, love spirals @w@

You can get a an airbrush in a normal model store for like, thirty bucks, just uses a canister of CO2. :P

sweeeettttt

Im going to drink that talent out of your brain D:

D: That is soooo cooooool looking. Like...amazing. I didn't know that was possible or maybe I just never thought of it.
I really love that negative space you used for the tree and stuff. That's really awesome. And how bright that swirly thing is. Those wings...ahhh<3 These are so pretty.

Very cool and well done, they all show up vibrantly under the black light :3
I really like the second, I would enjoy having that design on my arm or something where it would be more visible :P

oh this is beautiful

haha i cant say anything more lol this is really awesome! i need to find these and start painting <3

i really like this kind of stuff, it's always amazing to see how those "drawings" was done :)

Hi Oce -

Those are spectacular. I admit I love the human form, and seeing it as a canvas and frame ... those wings are gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous.

Thank you for posting these!

Cheers,
OT

cool. I remember getting dragon wings painted on my back and a scale pattern on my chest and arms at a bar in Louisville - they were having a pride-day party. The airbrush was so cold - good thing I was drinking ^_^

I used to do airbrush and henna for a place in louisville. I might'a did your stuff. lol

ORLY!? I've never met a fellow fur IRL (to my knowledge) ...if you're still around the area, she shoud do coffee sometime

She? o.O ... and sadly, I'm not in the area anymore. A lot of furs are popping up around there though. You should check out some of the 'fur map' sites.

"SHE"? -I meant "we" -strange...not even close. anyway - yeah it's been years since I looked on one dem maps...should give it another go, huh?

You definately should. I can think of at least 5 peeps of the top of my head. PM me if you want to keep talking. It's not really polite to spam up OcEs journal with off topic stuffs. ... no matter how friggin' AWESOME he is! XD

mesmerizing!

Wow - too bad its only temporary - those are really cool.

The garden of eden one is absolutely breathtaking. Wonderful work with the 'backlighting' and such.

Great work, especially on such a stretchy canvas!

I've always loved these. Was it you who had the photo of the octopus done in the same manner? WONDERFUL stuff.

omg! awsomeness squared!

oh dude! these are awesome! i've never seen skin painting like this ever! wow

How long does it last on the skin? These are beautiful by the way!

Usually not more than overnight. You can leave it on for awhile, but the nature of acrylic is to dry into a film and crack/peel/wear off slowly and uglily (is that a word?). Most of the time we'd wash it off after photographing it so we could do more in the same spot. ;D

Thats kinda disappointing though D: I was hoping it would last longer, but then again its not like hena or something like that.

That is sOOO cool!

Wow, that is badass. Very cool stuff man. :D

Remember when I came to FC that one year, and we stopped by this ginormous art store in SF and I bought a bunch of fluorescent acrylic? I still have all of that and it's pretty much never been used. Do you guys have an airbrush?

That is so cool!!! You can do the same thing with highlighters by the way! *is SO going to do this*

That is seriously an amazing effect for something so simple. The tools used, I mean. The works themselves really show skill... not so simple to do. :3 These just look so awesome. xD Great work!

These are Liquitex fluorescents, which you should find at any of the larger art stores. They generally run $6ish per bottle and are pre-filtered for airbrushing (sez the bottle!).

As for the camera, a friend took these, and I -think- it was an older Nikon CoolPix but I'm not certain. You don't need special cameras, just a slow or night setting and a bright nearby blacklight source.

these are beautifull, thanks for posting how you took the photos, i have had a horible time photographing blacklight paintings.

Thats Amazing! if only tattoo can do that! I love them all! there so colorful and the photo came out great X3 <33

The middle is my absolute favorite. The strong and gradient coloration coupled with the strong, jagged line work is very easy to enjoy.

It also appears that the model has excellent hips. That makes it a bit easier too.

wow, that's really awesome. the colours rock!

AWESOME I love it

awesome =D

I want those wings on me! You're astounding.

OoO
Your awesome!

Where do you get this special paint?

Wow ... Those wings are like what I want to get. I really want to get UV reactive wings tattooed on my shoulders (because the wings are supposed to be white, but I'm black so they won't go in well). Aside from the possible carcinogenics of it, I hear they also fade out within a year or so. :/

Oh, I've heard of Chameleon Ink actually. :P When I was doing my own research. But there's the still question of how fast it fades. Wouldn't want to sink a couple of hundred into my back and shoulders and have it gone within a year, you know?

Hm ... I have a friend with a UV tattoo on her chest. I should ask her how it looks since it's been over a year since I've seen it.

That middle one is the coolest thing I have ever seen D:

I remember you posting these. Someday I gotta show you some of the body art I've done. Granted, none of it is UV stuff.

Although that may change soon, if we can work that out at AC!

The wings are beautiful.

Okay thats friken beautiful, I want me back painted now lol

love the theme :P man i want to get a real tattoo done in an ink that has the same properties as that stuff, the tattoo takes up my entire right side up to under my eye and down to my thigh so i need it to be invisoble.

Woah... This makes that "super awesome" party that I got splattered by a broken glowstick at look very, very tame by comparison.

Think I'll see 'bout getting some of these paints for the next party. ^_^

Really love that spiral of doom btw.

My eyes have just blown a fuse or two - it's so neon-intensive 0.0

Awesome, awesome, awesome all night long !

I love the Spiral! :D

Woaaaaah awesome o___o

The glow on that spiral looks amazing, almost as if it could be on someone's body. Now that's cool!

THATS REDICULOUSLY AWESOME D:

WOW that is amazing ^.^
>HUGS<

That's fucking spectacular! Stop being so awesome dammit!!

These are excellent. We've always used the low-tech method of highlighters...

oh man, thats bad-ass XD

wow, you inspire me so much! You are a true artists, much love.

you've got some mad airbrush skills! These are all beautiful, though the garden is my favorite

Hardcore technique with the UV airbrush! the left one was really well done, Im really impressed! Good job!

This is so wonderfully creative! The paintings are beautiful and the whole "hidden art" aspect is great too. I can just imagine the awe you would get to see these in person when the black lights turn on. Almost like human jack-o-lanterns!

http://www.crazychameleon-inc.com/b.....attoo-ink.html I guess i dont have to hope anymore XD

WOW!!!

One of these'd be awesome as a clubbing "outfit"! :3

I fancy the firey spiral of doomzorz. It's pretty!

fuckin sweet

dude, that's so freaking awesome

veeeeeery kule~!! ^^-;; like i was saying on that other pic, very awesome thing to be totin' out clubbin~ \|'D cant say i like any of these the BESTest, they're all different and awesome X'3

I once found a book on how to paint your cats. But this just reminds me of those stupid days where I'd make up stuff my friends to do, like use my glow-in-the dark gel pens in the same manner! .3.

Out of curiosity, how much would a set up to do that sorta work cost? Roughly

I have an Iwata Eclpise dual-action airbrush, retail was about $199 I think. I was lucky to get that as a gift, though, along with the compressor (not sure what the cost was, but I'm guessing less than $40, cause it's loud and, if you don't suction cup it to the floor, it travels. XD)

The paint is a little easier to come by... Liquitex Fluorescent Acrylics work fine for this, thinned down to about half water, and are about $6 per (woefully small 2oz) bottle. You'll need 4-5 bottles to get all the colors, but one bottle will last quite awhile.

And lights are super easy; cheapest option is a Home Depot $12.99 blacklight (CRAPPY fixtures, though), second-cheapest would be the $20 ones you get at Spencer Gifts or Hot Topic at a mall. You can also get the blacklight tubes (up to 48"!) and put them in an existing fixture. I also have several clamp-lamps with spiral UV bulbs (like a compact fluorescent, but blacklight), which is about $10 for the lamp and $8 for the bulb.
Hope that helps!

Thanks! I enjoy new forms of art and trying something like this might just be fun! A new canvas so to speak

Wow! This art is gorgeous! I especially love the wings! <:3 Aww...I just get a warm fuzzy feeling inside everytime I look at this pic. <:3

This is sooo beautiful =DDD

I like the Garden of Eden one. I'm probably still influenced by "Temptation." "The Fall" themed stuff seems like a really good idea for raves...