Amazing World of Body Painting

I got a body painting request from advertising agency Nordenswan & Siirilä. The brief was to create body painting on acrobats for the new visual look of an IT company. At first I thought “Really?” and immediately after that “REALLY!”. What an amazing idea. Little did I know at the time how amazing though.

By creating colourful images with body paint of course! That is exactly what Valio did. Valio is a Finnish dairy giant, whose super idea to promote their new flavoured fromage frais was wrapped around body painting.

These fun loving images were originally created for Finnish shoe brand Minna Parikka. These pictures show how perfectly body painting can be used within fashion advertising to support the original designs. Now PANTONE has also found these images!

One of the most interesting body painting commissions I have had so far – an award-winning Non-Smoking campaign event for Pfizer. My assignment was to create the damages of smoking on teh bodies. Usually body art is thought to be just fantasy and pure imagination, but this case was an amazing example how body painting can be used as a visual storyteller of facts too – the paintings conveyed a real message in a very memorable way.

“Oh my god, this is going to be so fab!” That was my first thought when I was called and asked to join the team for a TV commercial for Veikkaus. I was so excited to hear the stars of the film and my models would be horses!