Artist Ren Allen on Using the Body as a Canvas - Creative Insurgents Episode 7

In this episode of Creative Insurgents, Melissa and Cory interview artist Ren Allen, a makeup artist specializing in body painting, who has discovered how to make a living from her art, despite doubts that such a radical art form could ever be profitable in conservative eastern Tennessee. Show Notes: 2:44 Ren's journey into makeup and body painting. 6:07 Cory's makeup story. Makeup as a definer of gender roles and a political touchpoint. 8:11 There is room for all forms of expression. 11:10 A picture of Ren's work. 11:28 The technical aspects of having a human canvas. 12:54 The kinds of clients who come to Ren for body painting. 15:09 Eastern Tennessee a hotbed of body painting??? "Everything's going to conspire to help you when you are being fully in alignment with the thing that you're here to do." 20:19 Storytelling capital of the US, and the intersection of storytelling and art. 21:59 Fur absorbs a lot of paint, as it turns out, plus dreams of painting an elephant. 24:01 Balancing creating for love vs. creating for money (with five kids at home!) 27:29 Quick tip: Melissa's experiment with auctioning her art on Facebook. What leap can you take in the next two weeks?

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Artist Ren Allen on Using the Body as a Canvas - Creative Insurgents Episode 7 is an episode from Creative Insurgents: Living a Creative Life by Your Own Rules by Cory Huff.

This episode is 30:46 long.

This episode was published on Mar 4, 2014.

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