Woo! Bodypainting has been so much fun so far!

I've started to practice bodypainting, and the prices of the paint and supplies is just so high at my local stores. Because it's a speciality item, my local art supply house has an high mark up on almost everything. It's so bad that doing store-brought paint I can't even complete a full practice painting without spending twenty or thirty bucks. Fortunately, mail order comes to the rescue again.

I ended up looking around online and and I found a bunch of places that charge better prices than local - but so far my experience is that a lot of them don't provide very good service or are just dead links that nobody pays attention to anymore and my emails go to nowhere. It takes some doing to find a good supplier, before you start clicking away sending money to someone out there on the internet - check out some reviews or blogs to see what folks are actually using. If could afford going to one of the conventions I could probably get a bunch of cheap goods there - but travel and tickets are just too much for messing around with it today.

I ended up going to bodypaintingsupply.com at artistic bodypainting supplies and ordering everything I needed from there. I got myself a really nice airbrush to replace that older one that kept clogging. It was really cheap - but I guess unless I start doing this at events there's no need for one of the professional ones with a compressor and paint feeder. The only awkward thing is that I need to feed/mix the paints manually and switching colors is a bit slow. I know the Krylon sprayers let you switch right away by dropping paint into the top of the gun, but that's way too expensive. I got a pretty good kit with paint for under $100 and I'm eager to get started. I'll post some pictures when I improve a bit. ^^

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