A British woman, Carolyn Roper, has been crowned World Bodypainting Champion for the second time. Miss Roper, 27, won the competition held in Austria last month after taking seven hours to paint her model and entering him in the bodypainting special FX category. Her art work shows naked models covered in a host of flamboyant and colourful designs.
More than 23,000 visitors attended the weekend-long event in Seeboden to see over 100 artists from more than 40 countries compete in a variety of categories. The colourful theme of competition was “Spirituality beyond the visible eye” and to fit in with that Miss Roper took her inspiration from a book about good and bad fairies.
Each of the tiny fairies moulded on to the painted body took months of designing and involved pain-staking casting and moulding to get the right look and fit. The process took so long that Miss Roper decided to ask a friend who was a former Queen’s Guard to pose as her model – simply because he was used to standing still for so long.
Telegraph (Thanks Kirsty)
See more of Carolyn’s work here.
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This one is not naked (disappointment) ……. For a shot moment I thought she put a cute face there but that actually was not there but on his leg … (yes, the nose is a bit smallish if it had been made out of his genital area .. I agree .. but hey ..).
7 hours .. a hard job for the model for sure! But the result looks pretty cool. Although I’ve seen others that I like better I think, a bit less flamboyant. This one is a bit over the top I find.
Aww I think it looks great! Have seen some pretty awesome ones, but this is def up there!
Amazing work, makes you feel proud to be British. The photo almost doesn’t look real, almost like a cartoon.
Most saturday nights near us we see women out with more makeup on then that. tut
Cheers
Rob
lol@Rob.
I thought the same as you MsG but then realised that that’d be one strangely shaped teeny peeny. Brillinat work
x
i usta do this stuff…& that is absolutely amazing!
ARRGGHH. Dear Telegraph. It\’s PAINS-TAKING, not PAIN-STAKING
Pathetically, this always irritates me 
Toyah never did know when to stop…