"Bodypainting, Nudity, Art, Obsenity and Facebook's Censorship Policy"
an article by Yes! Weekly featuring our story and our work— click here

"Best in the World"
FIRST PLACE WINNER - World Bodypainting Festival competition, 2011
Newspaper article: "Meet the Artists"
In the midst of training for the WBF competition, we took some time out for this interview. Read the original article
Award-Winning photo features our work
Congratulations to H. Michael Roberts who won 2nd place in the Female Portrait division, and scored 83 at WPPA. See a larger picture here, you can also see it on its facebook page. The image is of our winning entry at the Las Vegas NABPC, and the model is the lovely Kristen Snider.
First-Place Winners at the North American Bodypainting Championships in Dallas
Our third competition, we scored highest in the handpainting category. I was also honored to be the very first inductee for the newly formed International Fine Arts Bodypainting Association.
Madelyn's account of winning at the World Bodypainting Festival in Austria
as published in the entertainment magazine YES! Weekly
FOX News television segment
Watch it here, and here's a bit more.
Sports Illustrated (via CNN) feature us
Our winning WBPF bodypainting gets some notice. Here's a screenshot

Winners at the World Bodypainting Festival in Austria
Just five months after our first competition, we took on the world—literally—for our second competition. New on the scene, we shot ahead of hundreds of top artists from over 48 countries. We were tied for first place in the first round and walked away with the 2nd place trophy in the finals.

The image at the left is an Associated Press photograph that was on the front page of the MSN.com website. The woman at left is our lovely model, Lauren Andress on the day of the finals.

Interview with NPR, on "The Story" with Dick Gordon
Host Dick Gordon interviewed us on bodypainting, how we met and our recent victories and plans for the future. This was aired on NPR radio stations around the country and affiliates around the world.
Listen to the interview.
If you want to skip ahead so that you just hear our segment were a little more than halfway through.


Winners at the North American Bodypainting Championships in Las Vegas
We placed third in the "sponge and brush" category, (second place in the preliminaries), to become the highest ranking Americans in our category, This was the first year of the NABPC event, and our first competition, ever.
Song of the Sirens
An oratorio based on Homer's Odyssey. Sopranos and African drums mix in terrifying ways! Another one of my brain babies.

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Awake the White and Wint'ry Queen
A Concert for the Winter Solstice
I directed/composed/wrote a concert with interpretive dance and all original music... and bodypainting!Another major production! Why do I get myself into these things?!?
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The Grand Fire Trine
On June 25th a rare astrological phenomenon occurred, a special alignment of the planets: A Grand Fire Trine intersected with a Grand Water Trine to create a six pointed Star of David. We anchored these celestial energies into the earth through poi performance on a wild, winding river in the Appalachian mountains.
Click here to learn more.
SUCCESS: Guinness bodypainting record numbers achieved... Again!

The American Body Arts Festival
We created a new, original bodypainting festival here in America primarily for the purpose of achieving the Guinness World Record in bodypainting and also to make art with hundreds of naked painted people. Read all about it here.
Read more about our first Guinness record event
Opening the Eye of Light
This is only the most ambitious thing I've ever done in my life. An original play about myth and the soul's interaction with the divine, I am one of the projects progenitors and will be scoring and performing original music, multimedia and video, costumes and set design, plus all the visual design for the play's promotional materials. A part of the Greensboro Fringe Festival, prominently featured, you guessed it, BODYPAINTING! Eleven actors/dancers had to be bodypainted for each show
Click here to learn more.
"The Art of Bodypainting" in the Greensboro News and Record
You can read it online here. Along with the article is a wonderful video with music by Gerry Dignan and myself. Watch it here.
We've already had one article written on us by the News & Record. Check it out here.
Living Brush Gets "Framed"
Yes Weekly's Chris Lowrance features us in his illustrated story about the Bar S Ranch's "Take Pride in Your Hide" 5K Run.
Read more here.
River Sirens
Take a trip into the wilds and witness the captivating allure of the sirens as they lure you into the depths.
Read more here.
"Collage Alujia", Bodypainting with The Human Bent
An Atlanta experimental Jazz and multimedia performance group brings us on board for a ground-breaking show.
Read more here.
Triple Goddess
The Winston-Salem ribfest had never seen anything quite like this before!.
Read more here.
SUCCESS! Record Breaking Numbers Achieved!
Guinness World Record for "Most Bodies Painted"
Making Art with Hundreds of Naked, Painted Bodies - Creating "The Living Mandala"
Our most ambition, fun and fantastic venture yet!
Find out more about this event here.
Opening of World's First Bodypainting Gallery
We venture down to hurricane-stricken (Katrina) New Orleans to participate in Craig Tracy's Painted Alive art gallery opening seen as part of the city's comeback.
Read more here.
Hudson Valley Bodyscapes
Known for inciting national controversy, this New York art society welcomed their first bodypainting.
Find out more about this event here.
Hippo Article on Living Brush Bodypainting
"Bodypainting is considered by Fray as a legitimate art form that has not yet received its due. His own human art backs up his belief. His designs are primal and sophisticated at the same time. His formal art training is obvious."
Read more here.
Our Summer Vacation
A collection of bodypainted beauties from our summer travels around the U.S.!
Find out more about this project here.

Bodypainting Features Prominently in "Portrait" Movie
Madrid-based director José Carasco made extensive use of bodypainting for a dream sequence in this tale of an artist finding his muse.
Find out more about this project here.



"The Body as Art", Bodypaint Theatre
16 acts, all in Bodypaint, in Pittsburgh
We put together an ambitious night of fun and frolicking for our very first Bodypainting Extravaganza! It may have been the most truly unique event Pittsburgh has ever seen. It including dancers, musicians, performers, and a bevy of lovely ladies wearing bodypaint and little else.
Find out more about this event here.