Model
I asked Emily to be my model because she’s my friend so it wouldn’t be as awkward and because I’ve modelled for her a couple of times so she owes me. She’s also very pale so for the white parts of the look that won’t be on the bodysuit I could use her natural skin tone without the contrast being too high or having to paint her skin white to make it match because that would take too long.
Photographer
I originally asked Millie if she’d be available on any of the dates for my fmp assessments but she wasn’t available for the body paint assessment so I asked aa few people in the class if they had aa photographer yet and none of them did so I asked Anna, the photography technician, if she could do the photos for me and the other people on the 3rd March, 3 weeks before the assessment on the 28th. I asked for other people because I felt it would be easier for Anna to get 1 message for multiple people than have lots of messages from people.
Stencils
For the look I’m doing, I know that I’ll need stencils to get the correct symmetry for the diamond pattern.
Mask
I bought a pack of 10 white canvas colombina style masks to paint. I cut out a stencil out of laminate for the diamonds so they’d be even.
Bodysuit
I bought a skin toned leotard from Primark. My original plan was to paint the pattern onto the bodysuit but my tutors said it would be hard to match the colour on the bodysuit to the skin which made a lot of sense so I decided against it.
I organised with my model for her to come in to try on the bodysuit because even though it was in her size I still wanted to make sure it was right. She said she’d come in the next day and around 9am said she’d come in at 1.30. After 20 minutes of waiting I messaged her to check if she was still coming and she said she forgot because she was tired so I’d wasted a lot of time waiting when I had a lot of other things to work on.