Son of Monsterpalooza

Adult film star, Lily Lane - body painted by Pashur.

Photo by PictureBoi.

On Saturday, October 12th I body painted at the ultimate Monster Special FX Convention in Burbank, CA... "Son of Monsterpalooza".

My Client.

My client, a humorous horror magazine called, "Girls & Corpses Magazine", wanted me to paint a model half "Girl" and the other half "Corpse" at their convention booth. So I did just that, but with my own spin on things. I painted the model half female beauty, and the other half taken over by an alien corpse, after all - the client did not specify what KIND of corpse.

Adult film star, Lily Lane - body painted by Pashur.
Photo by Pashur.

The model was Burning Angel's adult film star, Lily Lane, so you might be thinking she was nude… but no, much to the attendees disappointment she had to wear a bikini, which was a bit of a challenge to paint around. I had planned to paint Lily for several hours, and an hour into it, the client told me I only had 2 hours left before she had to go do photos with his photographers, that’s the trick to live events, you have to roll with the punches! He also wanted his logo painted on the model, so I hand painted it, with time ticking away! I managed to complete the design in 3 hours, I felt pretty happy about it, despite the surprise time constraints!

Pashur and his model, Lily Lane. 

Photo by PictureBoi.

She was a hit among the crowd, there were plenty of fans of monster corpses, and plenty of fans of girls, so it was a win/win!! We stopped for lots of photo ops and received lots of compliments from monster fans and special FX make up artists. After we took photos, what was I to do next?

Ashley Acosta's Zombie face - painted by Pashur in 10 minutes.

Ashley Acosta, one of the convention attendees wanted me to paint her up as a zombie. So I painted a 10 minute zombie face on her. She loved it. Ashley told me, "You're gonna be a legend". It never hurts to hear that compliment. Speaking of compliments, Ashley got many great compliments on her zombie make up! Her favorite compliment on the make-up came from FaceOff contestant, Miranda Jory.

Then I wanted to check out what all was going on at the event...

I looked through the monster booths which were filled with amazing special FX masks and monsters - a horror fan’s dream come true (or a true nightmare for the squeamish)! A lot of the FaceOff contestants and other FX artists were there, and Jordu Schell was doing monster drawings for $20 which was incredibly fun to watch. A good chunk of my time was spent hanging out with my friends at the European Body Art booth.

Pashur's body paint work with actress,

Dee Wallace Stone (E.T., Cujo, The Frighteners).

Photo by PictureBoi.

The celebrity line up at the event was pretty cool too. I saw Dee Wallace-Stone (E.T, Cujo, The Frighteners), Nastassja Kinski (Cat People), Jeffrey Combs (The Re-Animator), Wings Hauser (Mutants) and actor Akira Takarada from the first Godzilla movie in 1954. What a fun mix of people!

Pashur and his model, Lily Lane. Photo by PictureBoi.

"Son of Monsterpalooza", you are what nightmares are made of (and I mean that in the best way possible)! I can’t wait for next year, at "Second Cousin Removed from Mosterpalooza"!... okay, just Monsterpalooza.

INGLORIOUS ARTIST

Kristin Lee body painted as Beatrix Kiddo from the movie, Kill Bill.

People always say I remind them of Quentin Tarantino due to our similar mannerisms - so when I saw that there was a collective art show based on Quentin Tarantino films, I had to be a part of it. The show: Inglorious Artists.

I decided to body paint the character Beatrix Kiddo (played by Uma Thurman) from the movie Kill Bill, so ideally I needed a blonde model. Luckily my friend and model, Kristin Lee, who is always so wonderfully charismatic was gracious enough to pose for me. Within two hours of the show starting, I lined up the shoes, a fake sword and underwear for the model to wear during the painting process.

I arrived at the Boshin Gallery in downtown Hollywood. Cool art by cool artists lined the walls of the hot room. Kristin was already there and ready to pose. I set up and started body painting Kristin. After a few hours of painting it was down to the final details... which were the patches. I decided to make my own patches that mimicked the real ones. The four patches read... "CAT Wagon" (a reference to "Pussy Wagon" in the Kill Bill movie), "Pashur" (on the lower left), "KL" (Kristin's initials) and "QT" (Quentin Tarantino's initials).

Everyone present loved the body painting. At one point, every single person in the gallery at the same time, had surrounded me watching me paint. People say that watching paint dry is dull, but yet people always stay to watch people get body painted - and I have no complaints about it. One female gallery attendee commented, "I am not usually into the whole nude body paint thing - but you changed my mind." People strolling by stopped to stare in the gallery window of Kristin being body painted. Upon completion of the painting, Kristin posed in the gallery window for a short bit for people to view her as they walked by. With her sword prop, she really got into character which the crowd totally loved. People then lined up to get a picture with Kristin body painted up, as well as pics with her.

The body painting was a success. For a job well done, we celebrated with margaritas at actor Vince Vaughn's restaurant, the Velvet Margarita.

Skin Wars

Skin Wars promo image. Models: Kristin Lee and Simone Dawes.

I have been consulting for an upcoming body art competition TV series called, Skin Wars. While consulting with the client, they asked me to create a promotional image for the show. I did a sketch and sent it to the client for approval. Once approved I called my friends Kristin Lee and Simone Dawes, who are always so great to work with, and asked if they would come pose for the image. They accepted. The models came over to my studio and we got started. I wanted to show that body art is cool, fun, eye catching and colorful - yet is still very sexy. Strategically posed and painted, the models show just that.

Skin Wars will be airing in 2014 on the Game Show Network (GSN). Body Artists will compete to show off their skills, until only one is left. Good luck to those competing.