Make-Up Artist William Lemon III "Parcival vs. the Sun" Exhibition

The New York Times caught up with our Make-Up Artist William Lemon III, to discuss his recent exhibition. "Parcival vs. the Sun" . Here's a snippet from the interview:

"Most makeup artists consider the skin their canvas, but William Lemon III takes the idea more literally. Lemon, who is also a musician and painter, created a water-based acrylic body painting technique called skin printing, and he has used it to cover Marc Jacobs’s naked body with hot pink Stephen Sprouse/Louis Vuitton logos, and to transform Chloë Sevigny into a tattooed-lady-slash-clown for Beck’s trippy “Gamma Ray” video. (Look close: Lemon is the dancing mime.) In N.E.R.D.’s new “Hot and Fun” video, directed by Jonas Akerlund, he trussed up a tribe of apocalyptic party girls with animal prints, mystical symbols and ash. “He let me go a little bit far out,” Lemon said of the director — not surprising since Akerlund is also the man behind Lady Gaga’s “Telephone.” ".... continued on below link ...

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/04/los-angeles-dispatch-will-lemon-at-eighth-veil-gallery/?ref=t-magazine