Miss Liberty (Impromptu body painting fun)

Model is lit using a single Bowens Esprit 500 Monolights @ full power with a DynaPhos Strip Softbox (56" x 14") with the grid attached.The background is white seamless lit by two 1000 w/s monolights @ 1/8th power -one on each side- each with a grid and a colored gel. Homemade gobo's were placed between each of these lights and the background to create the patterns. A tiny bit of editing in Photoshop was done to push the pubic into shadow and improve overall color & contrast.This was spur of the moment shoot with a wonderfully patient model I often work with. I had recently purchased an airbrush and two larger paint guns and wanted to try my hand at body painting. I had no assistant and we used tempra paint -which can tend to clog the paint gun. Needless to say it took forever (2.5 hours) to paint her! She is a saint and deserves a large portion of the credit for this image!