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.
