FaerieWorlds 2010, Body Painting Ian of Telesma

First of all...let it just be said that the sacred energies that be seem to truly work in mysterious ways. Thats how this past weekend seemed to go- unfolding itself into an unexpected, yet well defined path of righteous fun.<br /><br />A week or so ago a friend mentioned the <a href="http://www.faerieworlds.com/"><strong>FaerieWorlds 2010 festival</strong></a> and whether or not i was planning on going. I had completely forgotten that the festival was going to take place so soon and so near( in Eugene Oregon) and upon discovering that it wasn't extremely expensive to attend it peeked my interest. What was more interesting was that Danny had come across an urgent message- one of the main bands- <a href="http://www.telesmamusic.com/"><strong>Telesma</strong></a> -was in need of carpool faeries. The lead singer and the drummer were to fly into PDX but had no way to get to the Eugene fairgrounds. Long story short we ended up carpooling to the festival with these two very fine folks. When the band saw my body painting photos they invited me to paint Ian the didgeridoo/percussionist from the band. Ian regularly goes on stage in bodypaint, and has been painted by amazing artist such as Kelli Bickman and Alex Grey!<br /><br />We arrived at the fairgrounds just a couple hours before Telesma was to preform. The campground area was beautiful, dappled with nice shading trees with green forested hills in the distance:<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucidrose/4852184736/" title="Danny and I by lucidRose, on Flickr"><img alt="Danny and I" height="500" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4118/4852184736_191c6e09ff.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />I had painted a third eye + filigree on myself, and then a third eye on Danny before we made our way into FaerieWorlds festival. So glad we had this picture snapped- we have so few together and this one came out nice!<br /><br />We had agreed to meet Ian backstage behind the main stage so that we could get the body painting finished in time for sound checks and setup. so we hurried across the camp grounds.<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucidrose/4852169118/" title="Painting Ian of Telesma by lucidRose, on Flickr"><img alt="Painting Ian of Telesma" height="304" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4139/4852169118_aa0282a743.jpg" width="450" /></a><br />( all the following photos in this post were taken by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/lucidopticlab"><strong>Danny</strong></a>)<br />At the back of the stage was this HUGE tepee that was setup as the lounge area and thats where we worked. Ian had me use the paint he normally wears which was actually createx airbrush paint. I guess its the only stuff he has found that will actually hold up to all the sweat and movement he does during shows. He had me help paint a white basecoat. Once that was in place i was able to start with my fun. As always i began by painting a third eye on the forehead...then worked my way out from there.<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucidrose/4852169060/" title="Painting Ian of Telesma by lucidRose, on Flickr"><img alt="Painting Ian of Telesma" height="500" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4093/4852169060_07d26ebbde.jpg" width="335" /></a><br />I only had about 30 minutes to do the body painting so i was painting in a frenzy but i had some crazy-wonderful live music to listen to as i painted because the Gypsy Nomads were onstage before Telesma. They had a very interesting sound- kinda punk fuses with celtic jig jive/ flesh eating mermaid siren singing. i loved it and it was the perfect " painting really really fast" music.<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucidrose/4851551557/" title="Painting Ian of Telesma by lucidRose, on Flickr"><img alt="Painting Ian of Telesma" height="285" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4119/4851551557_3dd211599d.jpg" width="450" /></a><br />As i was painting Ian i realized that he is actually the first man i have done a body painting on. I have been working strictly with women for <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucidrose/sets/72157623003286474/"><strong>my body painting series</strong></a> up until now. Generally i view the female form as being a much more interesting canvas with lots of curves and shapes then the male physical form. But i was actually pleasantly surprised to find Ian was a wonderful canvas full of fun shapes to work with to highlight/define with my line work.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucidopticlab/4851888817/" title="Chelsea Rose Body painting hits FaerieWorlds '10 by Lucid Optic Lab, on Flickr"><img alt="Chelsea Rose Body painting hits FaerieWorlds '10" height="500" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4075/4851888817_849c3e62d6.jpg" width="356" /></a><br />So here he is all finished!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucidrose/4852115950/" title="Ian and Me at FaerieWorlds 2010 festival by lucidRose, on Flickr"><img alt="Ian and Me at FaerieWorlds 2010 festival" height="500" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4140/4852115950_ed56f73f19.jpg" width="335" /></a><br />Danny snapped these right before Ian ran onstage to join the setup.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucidrose/4851475169/" title="Ian of Telesma by lucidRose, on Flickr"><img alt="Ian of Telesma" height="232" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4137/4851475169_f488bb2bd0.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />He looked magnificent up there with his crazy music devices!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.telesmamusic.com/"><strong>Telesma</strong></a> is more then a band, they are an EXPERINCE!<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucidopticlab/4851888471/" title="Telesma at FaerieWolds '10 by Lucid Optic Lab, on Flickr"><img alt="Telesma at FaerieWolds '10" height="279" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4119/4851888471_b359691ee5.jpg" width="450" /></a><br />taken from their bio: "The Telesma experience is an ecstatic trans-cultural phenomenon with a highly infectious and danceable beat. Exploding on the Baltimore music scene in 2002, it soon developed a loyal local fan base and then shook the underground festival scene. Alex Grey, the noted visionary artist, hailed Telesma as “shamanic… with a sense of an underlying universal<br />wisdom…a rare combination in a rock/techno band.”<br />Telesma’s blurs the line between performer and audience, attracting the most<br />creative VJs, dancers, visual artists and body artists to its shows. Every Telesma show is a vortex of creativity; a celebration of body, mind and spirit."<br /><br />.......and they rocked me till i almost dropped( realizing that dancing in the heat of summer with a corset on can be a rather intense experience in its self!)<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucidrose/4851455007/" title="Dancing Fae by lucidRose, on Flickr"><img alt="Dancing Fae" height="306" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4114/4851455007_dfe8af975d.jpg" width="450" /></a><br />can you spot me and my dancin feet?<br /><br />The rest of the day i had off to wonder the festivities. This festival had wonderful food so i munched- yes i did( handmade veggie tamales for lunch and veggie/grilled tofu styled pad Thai for din din.) We also strode around checking out the vendors. i was very surprised to see not very many artists booths. Instead there seemed to be a lot of leather mask makers, faery inspired clothing and so on. I did stop and talk to a few of the artists whom all said that it had been a rather slow year at the festival- many of them were very glad that they had decided to split booth fees with friends. They said that the booth fees had gone up since last year yet attendance was a little lacking. Some theories to that were that there was to many fried and crispy faeries last year since it was 104 for two of main days. Perhaps the heat scared some folks? that or the economy is truly getin to be a downer? Still...i am glad we went to check out the fair and scope the opportunities present. I had initially thought to do a full art booth next year but now i am thinking it might work better for me to just set up a lil table + umbrella and offer my body painting servies. So i have some research to do...to see if and how i might swing that for next year.<br /><br />..'fraid thats all the news i have got for now. more coming soon including some vending and art opening opportunities in vancouver with the <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.guerrilla-media.com"><strong>Guerilla Gallery</strong></a>.<br />Best wishes and much love to all,<br />-Chelsea Rose

FaerieWorlds 2010, Body Painting Ian of Telesma

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Weekend bliss: Queen Bead, KPG live music, mermaid acrylic painting, playing dress up and morning glory flower

This weekend was eventful and this coming week will be the same way or perhaps doubly so!<br /><br />First off, one more photo to share from my body painting photo shoot with Queen Bead:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucidrose/4828920564/" title="Queen Bead by lucidRose, on Flickr"><img alt="Queen Bead" height="500" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4095/4828920564_f51abd0ba4.jpg" width="358" /></a><br />(body painting and photography by Chelsea Rose<br />Model: Queen Bead )<br /><br />Why is she called Queen Bead? well thats her artist/stage name. She is the head woman for a local reggae band called KPG - Keep Portland Green and her voice coupled with the music made me tingle. I danced all night long:<br /><br /><img src="http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/71/l_0cdd7fbfbfe74806aaa175fe684b6e9b.jpg" /><br /><br /><img height="399" src="http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/124/l_2ab43f4ae31845dab75fcb643896a515.jpg" style="WIDTH: 443px; HEIGHT: 340px" width="535" /><br /><p></p><p>....needless to say i was super sore the next day and have realized how out of shape i have gotten- need to dance more!! This was a wonderful way to start the weekend.</p><p>On Saturday Danny and I watched <a href="http://www.truthartspace.com/">T.Ruth artspace gallery </a><br />We set up a lil sidewalk art sale and worked on various projects inside while greeting the people who came in to look at art. Queen Bead dropped by with her son, i gave her a CD full of the body painting photos of her and we chatted for a couple hours. </p><p>I also managed to get some work done on my mermaid painting:<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucidrose/4827974753/" title="Working on my Mermaid by lucidRose, on Flickr"><img alt="Working on my Mermaid" height="359" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4134/4827974753_c11946a553.jpg" width="500" /></a>....i am not sure what it is with painting mermaids but they always give me trouble. I am assuming its their trickster/mischievous nature. I have been drawing them since i was 5, so i better get used to painting them since i love mermaids so much!<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucidrose/4828581800/" title="What my art table looks like right now by lucidRose, on Flickr"><img alt="What my art table looks like right now" height="335" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4115/4828581800_1139b5e35b.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />...i think she finally did manage to cooperate and i got a fair amount of work finished on her. Shes at least got her first layer of paint on...i am going to put in some flowy side fins on her tail and a bunch of bubbles in her hair. Blue/green and yellow orange is a strange color combo for me and i dont think i can say i have it mastered yet so i will have to do a lot more tweaking with it till i am happy. So there is loads more work to do on her- i pray i can find the time to do it in the next few weeks!<br /><br />In other news...i discovered that my dreads have grown long enough to do side buns...whoohooo!<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucidrose/4828567472/" title="Dreadlock Buns by lucidRose, on Flickr"><img alt="Dreadlock Buns" height="500" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4118/4828567472_1af7ecdd67.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />Can you tell i was quite excited?<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucidrose/4827960445/" title="Dreadlock Buns by lucidRose, on Flickr"><img alt="Dreadlock Buns" height="335" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4116/4827960445_cf5da79491.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />....turns out to be a great dread-do for the hot summer months- helps keep the dreads up to cool off the neck!<br /><br />Also, I came to realize that the <a href="http://www.faerieworlds.com/">FaerieWorlds Festival</a> is this coming weekend! I must go and so i shall. Also will be happily helping the singer Joanne Berman Juskus who heads the band <a href="http://telesmaband.com/">Telesma</a> by giving her and her drummer a lift to the festival- they will be playing there at 5:30pm. Whats extremely exciting, that i just now learned via facebook message a sec ago, is that they are hoping to have me do some body painting on the digeridoo man( Ian Hesford) for their preformance! I cant wait. I guess Ian usually goes onstage painted up very tribal and has even been painted by Alex Grey for a concert! If you have time...check them out, they make some wonderous psychedelic mind blowing music.</p><p>So yes... looks like i will be doing all that on Saturday. This realization had me diving into my costume bag to figure out what to wear:<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucidrose/4827951935/" title="Playing Dress Up by lucidRose, on Flickr"><img alt="Playing Dress Up" height="500" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4115/4827951935_6789d4cd58.jpg" width="359" /></a><br />I love playing dress up!<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucidrose/4827951891/" title="Playing Dress Up by lucidRose, on Flickr"><img alt="Playing Dress Up" height="500" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4101/4827951891_85fe35f2c0.jpg" width="345" /></a><br />...i think this hat is going to save me from turning into one big sunburn on Saturday.<br />I am also super excited to hear that the two corsets i commissioned Danny's amazingly talented seamstress sister to make me are on their way in the mail! Thus...i may be strutting about with one of my new ones on for the fair. I had her make one under bust corset with this crazy 60s mushroom fabric i found and another corset- over bust(1700's styled) out of a wonderful purple brocade. I will take photos when they arrive( due Wednesday i think!)<br /><br />This Thursday is the Art walk on Alberta st so we are also gearing up for that- will be there around 20th and alberta st ( Portland or) with a full booth boasting lots of paintings, art prints, screen prints and tie dye!<br /><br />That's it for now....more updates and news soon.<br />Best wishes and much love,<br />-Chelsea Rose </p><p>P.S</p><p>i wanted to share my first morning glory bloom of the summer with you:</p><p></p><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucidrose/4828486858/" title="First Morning Glory flower of the summer by lucidRose, on Flickr"><img alt="First Morning Glory flower of the summer" height="500" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4137/4828486858_56b6c21bb8.jpg" width="493" /></a><br />bye now :)

Weekend bliss: Queen Bead, KPG live music, mermaid acrylic painting, playing dress up and morning glory flower

This weekend was eventful and this coming week will be the same way or perhaps doubly so! First off, one more photo to share from my body pa...

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