Mama told you not to get paint all over yourself. So much for motherly advice. Artists will use the human body as their canvas at the first Texas Body Paint Festival on Saturday at House of Rock.

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Having a live human body as your canvas may not be your typical artistry, but it is for Brad De La Torre of Oak Grove, Kentucky. De La Torre, 43, has been an artist all his life but was inspired to ...

New York City celebrated more than just endless candy this Halloween. During the annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, a group of artists presented a float meant to honor the beauty of the human ...

In the late 1990s, Austrian Alex Barendregt stumbled across 1970s-era fashion photographs of German model Veruschka covered head-to-toe in body paint. He was intrigued, but his research failed to turn ...

Body-paint artist Trina Merry worked with a team to recreate the poster for the 2016 New York International Auto Show. The result: A "human car." Photo: Jeff Bush/The Wall Street Journal ...