Remember these shorts fading away yesterday? Well, now we have a whole post on camouflage. I didnt intend to do it like this, but yesterday I went to visit my grandma, and literally stumbled into this photo:
Oh grandma, you are beyond fabulous. She was wearing a hawaiian shirt she bought in Hawaii, and standing in front of a piece of crewel work from Mexico. Gotta love it. I actually have some beautiful portraits of her, but she was shy to let me post her face!
But theres more! So many artists practice the art of camouflage. These modern day Fridas by Susanne Bisovsky are exactly on point. Celebrating the pattern play but not matching exactly.
Then we have Cecilia Paredes, who paints gorgeous backdrops, and then intricately paints herself to match, leaving only her hair unpainted.
Which brings me to the slightly lower brow: The Gotye video. I dont know what made this dude think people would want to see a stop action video of his naked body being painted, but its kind of captivating and uncomfortable at the same time.
And last but not least, master camouflage artist Liu Bolin. The dude is a real life invisible man:
Fabulous, huh? Thoughts?
Hope you have a lovely weekend!
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I love your grandma! too cute. I love these last set of photos…the poeple look like ghosts. can you imagine the hours of make-up? wao
Holy crap! I can’t take how awesome Paredes and Bolin are!! I’ve been researching Paredes for a couple of minutes and I can’t figure out if she really does paint the backgrounds herself or if it’s wallpaper whose patterns she then copies. If it’s wallpaper I want her source list!! The third one you featured here needs to become a powder room stat!
Fabulous. Nicole, LOVE this post: the photo of your grandma and all the work of artists you featured. Fabulous.