Arrrrrrh, zombie pirates ahoy! or… NZ Body Art Awards, Kara style

Posted on Aug 19, 2010 08:14:59 PM

I was asked to paint in the Media Launch for the NZ Body Art Awards this year.  Fun right? Yup.

I was a little nervous, couldn’t really think of what to do on the theme on short notice.  The theme this year is Incredible India.  Then the lovely Mem Bourke let me know that it didn’t have to be themed and I could do a pirate or horror or whatever I wanted.

I missed that last part because my brain combined horror and pirate and shorted out.  I mean, come on, ZOMBIE PIRATE!?! Eeeee! Pirates of the Carribean FTW!  Happy, happy, joy, joy.   So, I showed up at the Mayor’s Office with my painting kit, several belts, a headscarf and a large rusty scimitar.  Honestly, being a larper is so very handy sometimes. I met my model, a Maori fellow with long curly hair and no front teeth!  How perfect is this?   Well, ok, traditionally, pirates aren’t Maori, but they DO have long scruffy hair and bad teeth, right?

Once again, I sob and swear because I forgot my camera and had to take pics of my work on my phone. My phone is new and the camera on it sucks.  I should probably rename my website “The Pictureless Painter”.  Here are a few I managed to get, blurry and grainy as they are, they’re better than nuffin.

Lesson du jour: Staple camera to my forehead from now on.