SKIN WARS is going Global!!!

I was commissioned to create piece for the opening titles of the show SKIN WARS and was a Guest Judge last year on Season 1. Skin Wars is a reality TV Knock out competition for Bodypainters, featuring Rebecca Romijin, Ru Paul, Craig Tracy and Robin Slonina. So many people have asked if it will be shown in the UK or Europe. Well here it comes... UK and European channels buy Skin Wars Show.  

Tru TV in the UK as well as other European Channels have bought the rights to show it. So, coming soon to a Screen Near YOU!!!

My camouflage bodypainting for the Skin Wars opening titles, concept by Jill Goularte. 

For those of you who have not heard about it yet, Skin Wars is a US Reality TV Show created by Jill Goularte and Michael Levitt at Michael Levitt Production for GSN. It features 10 Bodypainters in a last man standing elimination contest for $100,000. In the US they are currently showing season 2 and casting for season 3. So lots of paint and drama to follow. http://skinwars.gsntv.com/

Pinterest Board for The Coalescence of Creation Installation

We have received so many amazing images from visitors to The Coalescence of Creation Installation at the World Bodypainting Festival that we have created a Pinterest Board to share images from it. Please add any images you may have or simply view more fabulous pictures there. Many more will be added over the next few days.
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The Coalescence of Creation Installation - The Family Heirloom Tree

The Coalescence of Creation our Body Art Yarn Bomb Installation at the World Bodypainting Festival features many stories, characters and elements. Over the next few posts we will introduce your to some of our favourite pieces. 

The Family Heirloom Tree from The Coalescence of Creation. Award winning Installation Art by Emma Cammack from the World Bodypainting Festival 2015. Sponsored by Cameleon Bodypaint.

The Family Heirloom Tree is made up from precious pieces passed down to our family and lovingly kept. Filled with personal memories of childhood, family, love and loss. The large lace table cloth was collected by my husband years ago in Turkey and has held a special place in family meals and celebrations, the place mats were crocheted by my Grandfather and Grandmother Fred and Kathleen Cammack, both of whom were huge inspirations to me. The Baby blanket was one gifted to us on the birth of our first child by my husband's family, the baby birds represent my husband's beautiful older sister Christine who he never met, but is forever in our hearts. Her baby mittens have been turned into chicks and nestle in a nest made from one of my husband's hats. Family ties, family threads that bind us are represented by this tree, those we wish were here but are not and watch us from heaven. This is a tree filled with love, one that i am sure made my Grandfather smile down on us.

 Nesting chicks by Emma Cammack, 

from vintage baby mittens belonging to Christine Harre

  Nesting chicks by Emma Cammack, 

from vintage baby mittens belonging to Christine Harre

        Gecko made by Victoria Mitchell

The tree features baby blankets, shawls and table cloths, runners and mats passed down from relatives to our family and treasured and reminders of family and childhood.  

The tree features baby blankets, shawls and table cloths, runners and mats passed down from relatives to our family and treasured and reminders of family and childhood.  

The Coalescence of Creation is a Body Art Yarn Bomb Installation piece featured as part of the World Bodypainting Festival, Austria, 2015. The Installation won 1st Place in the Special Awards, Installation Art Award. 

To view more art by Emma Cammack visit www.emmacammack.com

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Crowd images from the Installation and World Bodypainting Festival

Some great images in this crowd album from the festival by festival goers. Wonderful to see so many images of the installation there.

http://www.crowdalbum.com/album/559c39166170704924000c78/World-Bodypainting-Festival_20150704?mediaId=1021981439170404753_611384823

We won!!

I am very proud to announce that my Installation Body Art Piece at the World Bodypainting Festival - official won 1st Place in the Installation category. 

Over 100 people helped in some way making, building, creating, bodypainting, head-dress making, modelling, supporting you name it. It was a truly international TEAM effort. Thank you ALL!!!!

A big Thank you also to my team sponsors Cameleon Face and Bodypaint! 

The Coalescence of Creation

The Coalescence of Creation

An alternative environment of handcrafted wonder. Trees enveloped in brightly coloured yarns, a canopy of crochet circles letting light dapple through their bright colours to the woodland floor. Our need to create as beings is innate, in built, inescapable.  Not only the human brain needs to make, create, build and nest, represented here are creatures who build their own environments. Homes crafted from twigs, leaves, silk and mud. Butterflies and caterpillars in their cocoons, various birds nesting, spider’s webs, squirrel’s drays, fox’s burrows, rabbit holes, ant nests. Amongst the brightly coloured trees creatures hide, knitted birds in their knitted nests, Crochet butterflies emerging from crochet cocoons, woven spiders sitting on their silken spun webs, knitted and woven flowers bloom all around.

In our lives we also weave threads of connection. Threads that join us all like a spiders web. Threads span from North, South, East and West, wrapping around the world and uniting here in this coalescent representation of world community. Numerous Artists, young and old, of many creeds, cultures and colours, coming together to create this alternate environment of colour, space and light to represent our world community. From within this world created from yarns, threads, silks and strings emerge colourful dancers who embody the threads of creation themselves dancing a human maypole dance of co-operation, co-existence and creation. The dance embodies life weaving between our fellow earth dwellers, creating ties that bind, close knit, apron strings. Our lives are colourful threads weaving together in an ever changing tapestry of community. Nature gave us all this instinct to build and create. Nature is in us. Nature is around us. We are Nature. We are Art. We are all equal. We are community. We are life.

Come and see our installation in Bodypaint City at the World Bodypainting Festival, Portschach am Worthersee, Austria. http://www.bodypainting-festival.com/en/

You are all invited to our presentation at 5.30pm on Saturday 4th July.

Art Installation at the World Bodypainting Festival

Art Installation at the World Bodypainting Festival

This year I am lucky enough to be creating an Installation at the World Bodypainting Festival. Last year as we drove home we were flooded with ideas for creating something amazing. My daughter, Isobel, was full of crazy pie in the sky dreams of knitted trees and all kinds of incredible things. Fort he nine hour drive home we pondered the possibilities... And then, a few months later after a chat with Alex Barendregt, the festival organiser, we decided to do it. So for the last 7 months I have been working towards realising those dreams from that long journey.

Coalescence of Creation

Trees enveloped in brightly coloured yarns, a canopy of crochet circles letting light dapple through their bright colours to the woodland floor. Amongst the brightly coloured trees creatures hide, knitted birds in their knitted nests, Crochet butterflies emerging from crochet cocoons, woven spiders sitting on their silken spun webs, knitted and woven flowers bloom all around. From within this world created from yarns, threads, silks and strings emerge colourful dancers who embody the threads of creation themselves dancing a human maypole dance of co-operation, co-existence and creation. 

Our dreams were to create an alternate reality fashioned from colour and light. We dreamed of multi-coloured trees, of swings wrapped in knitted flowers, of sunlight dappling onto the woodland floor in stained glass patterns through a brightly crocheted canopy of colour. Hand crafted figures, and creatures hidden on branches, knitted flowers growing in the ground. Hand crafted, yarn bombed nature, with the crystal waters of Worthersee and the mountains in the background.

One drawback was that although my Grandfather had taught me how to crochet when I was small, I had entirely forgotten the skill, my knitting was also rusty. So I set out to relearn, and to find fibre artists who would want to join in to make something amazing. So far we have over 100 fibre artists from more than 15 countries who have created pieces for the Installation. Some are young, a group of Girl Scouts from the USA, some old, retired crafters crafting in their retirement home. Many many people of both sexes and all ages. I will share per the next few days some information about some of the amazing artists who have become part of this journey. Creating this piece has truly been a community effort and brings together artists of many creeds and colours from across the globe.

We look forward to building and sharing our Installation with you. Join us at 5.30 on Saturday 4th July for our presentation in Bodypaint City.

Building the Coalescence of Creation our Yarn Bombed Bodypaint Art Installation.

Building the Coalescence of Creation our Yarn Bombed Bodypaint Art Installation. 

We have hundreds of pieces made by artists around the world. Here are just a few as they were made or arrived in the mail! This project has truly been a thrill each and every day. Thank you to all the amazing artists who have created something however big or small for it. 

Come and see our Installation in Bodypaint City at the World Bodypainting Festival. Our presentation is on Saturday 4th July at 5.30pm, but swing by anytime and say hello, we will be there. Why not come and make something with us, we have a crafting corner in our build so anyone can stop by and create something to add. No skill required!! 

Meet Leon...

Meet Leon, 

Leon is our installation mascot, part of the Cameleon Bodypaint Family. He will be keeping his beady eye on you during your visit to the World Bodypainting Festival. Remember Leon is watching you....

Leon was created by the fabulous Sam Phillips from a pattern by Martina Lûžová / Nellagold. Sam is one of the over 85 textile artists from all over the world who have creates pieces for this installation. Thank you Sam!!

Come and visit us in Bodypaint City, make something and add it to the installation, and do not forget to come to our presentation at 5.30 on Saturday 4th July. 

Leon is waiting to meet you....

Leon is waiting to meet you.... 

Come and meet him and his friends at my Installation at the World Bodypainting Festival. 

The wonderful Leon was created by the incredible Sam Phillips. 

World Bodypainting Academy at the World Bodypainting Festival.

World Bodypainting Academy at the World Bodypainting Festival.

I am busy teaching today at the World Bodypainting Academy. Come on down and check it out. www.worldbodypaintingfestival.com 

Skin Wars Fresh Paint Premiere

Check out the teaser for the Skin Wars Fresh Paint Special. With RuPaul as host, Mat Geason and I are the judges, while Natalie Fletcher (Season 1 Champion), Gear Duran and Dutch Bihary as mentors hoping their artist will become Skin Wars Fresh Paint champion.

Bodyworlds, Amsterdam film.

Bodyworlds made a film about our Bodypainting event in Amsterdam last weekend. Enjoy!

Bodyworlds Amsterdam - Under Your Skin event

I will be painting at the Under Your Skin event in Amsterdam this weekend with some amazing painters. Really looking forward to revisiting this amazing city and creating some amazing art with amazing artists. 

If you are in Amsterdam, stop by the Bodyworlds exhibit, say hello and check out the amazing creations. 

http://bodyworlds.nl/under-your-skin-bodypaint-event/

Facepainting Inspired by Books contest

I have a very difficult job today, finding a winner from the 80 amazing entries for the Illusion Magazine's Facepainting inspired by Books competition. Which one is your favourite? I am off to peruse....

http://illusionmagazine.co.uk/face_painting_competitions/face-painting-competition-books

When couture baby wearing meets top of the line body paint. Playing with new Cameleon colours!!

I have been playing with gorgeous Cameleon Robin's Egg and my beautiful new Artipoppe 2 Birds Peacock Baby wrap. Mixing my passion for Make-Up with my passion for Babywearing. heart emoticon Love Escher's 2 Birds pattern and the fabulous Cameleon colours!

http://www.cameleonpaint.com

Dr Who themed "Exploding Tardis" Bodypaint.

I have been promising to paint a Dr Who themed body paint on to my friend Gabby's belly while she is pregnant. Yesterday looked lie the last chance before the wee lad was finally born so we hung out watched X-Files and painted some Dr Who Geekery.

The Exploding Tardis is an image created for the BBC for "The Pandorica Opens" for Series 5 of Dr Who. The image is based on an imagines painting by Van Gogh featuring the Dr's Tardis exploding in the sky in Van Gogh's signature style. It is a great image and perfect for a pregnancy body paint. We thought it was an very apt design to paint onto Gabby's belly, what with the whole "bigger on the inside" thing.

Dr Who themed "Exploding Tardis" Bodypaint by Emma Cammack, 2015

Painted with Cameleon Bodypaints. Using some fabulous new colours from their range, particularly the new "Purdy Purple" which provides the dark purply blue tones, and the new Scareline colour "Tiger" which adds a rich ochre orange shimmer to the explosion, and Van Gogh's signature swirls.

New Cameleon Colours!!

Just got a gorgeous package of new Cameleon colours, Purdy purple, Blood Rain, Leeloo and Tiger. Doodling about to try them out.... LOVE them! The colours are strong, great pigmentation, smooth to work with and last well. Thanks Cameleon you are amazing yet again! xx

http://www.cameleonpaint.com

Tatler - Mile High Timelapse Video

Just found this amazing time lapse video of the Mile High shoot for the Tatler Immersive experiences project. Great memories. I love watching things like this develop over time. What an amazing and tricky assignment! Thanks for sharing Tatler.

Cameleon Time Tattoo

Look what arrived in the mail today! Time Tattoo from Cameleon. A new product in conjunction with Senjo Colour Alcohol based tattoo inks. I have been using tattoo inks by Temptu and Reel for years for projects and was interested to see how these shaped up. I was impressed. They were easy to work with, painted easily, worked well when thinned with alcohol for shading. I am really looking forward to more shades and colours. 

Experimenting with the gorgeous new Time Tattoo Set from Cameleon. Love the blue back colour. Works great hand painted, next I'll try it through an airbrush smile emoticonSo far I am loving it and it is still going strong on my arm.