I met Nadia and her family years ago at a folk-music camp. I took one look at her skin and decided I had to paint her. She reminded me the other day that our first image was a string of blue-bells, but we have since done countless necklaces of various forms, a bout of snake-skin, and various other things. She's a delight to paint - and always enthusiastic. So - we decided it was time we did a swim-suit.
I had the top worked out (well - OK so I stole it off an actual swimsuit picture) - but the bottom didn't appeal to me. The night before the shoot, I still had no clue what sort of bottom to paint - and spent hours scouring the web - looking at a zillion swimsuit images. Now at first sight, that should seem like an appealing way to spend several hours, but I nearly went cross-eyed, and still had no suitable design. So - this is an 'original'. I'm sure someone, somewhere as actually made such a swimsuit bottom.
This was the result of one of those 'chance' poses when the model is hamming it up. This led to some impromptu printing of thumbs to get that 'hooked in the top' look - and caused blue thumbprints everywhere. "Nope - stop. There's another blue smudge!". The makers of cotton-buds must be laughing all the way to the bank.
OK - thumbs all cleaned up again.
Bill. Makes a shoot a pleasure. Always obliging. Always a coffee on hand. All that -
and he can take photos as well! Thanks for making it fun.
Bill has a
web page covering both fashion, and artistic images.