Events - Part 19

NYC Bodypainting Day

Every year since 2014 an event has been held in New York City called NYC Bodypainting Day, put on by an organization called Human Connection Arts.  Outdoors in a city park, naked models get their bodies painted by artists while the public looks on.  This guy is getting painted orange in 2015, but the artist isn't done.

Here's the finished design, featuring the DNA double helix.

Another 2015 model with a rather striking design, accentuating one feature that, shall we say, sticks out.

The same model in 2016, with a design saying "Beauty is a cup shared by two."

Both the artists and the models are volunteers.  Some of the artists are quite good, like whoever did this Egyptian design in 2016.

And some of the artists should have stayed home, like whoever did this mess in 2021.

I don't know whether these painted shorts in 2019 were a minimalist design or whether the artist wasn't finished.

Here's a group in 2020 along with a woman who I'm guessing was the artist.  I'm glad to see that almost all of them were wearing masks.  Models at NYC Bodypainting Day are both male and female, but like most naked events, the males outnumber the females.

Two models in 2020.  The skin of the guy on the right made a natural background for the artist – no need to paint him a different color.  Black (or brown) is beautiful.

Is this Captain Jean-Luc Picard?

     "Captain, to blend in with the natives on this planet, we will have to be naked and painted with strange colorful designs."

     "Make it so."

(Actually the model is a New Yorker named Scott Ring.)