Body paint artist Dewayne Flowers was inspired by body paint artist Lana Chromium, to have his own body painted after twenty years of painting other people. They painted each other for this lovely blacklight picture. They carefully planned the finished image, and filled in the necessary extra "cross bones" where their arms and legs would cross. The name of the resulting art is “Till Death” - A Self Portrait. Flowers explained a little more about the picture:
This was a spontaneous UV blacklight piece. We spent a couple of hours painting each other "anatomically enough" to pull off the effect. I adjusted colors a bit to remove some of the blacklight blue and bumped the contrast to blacken out what skin was visible for the illusion. Her hair was glowing as well, so that helped.
This was a pretty big deal for me. I have been a bodypainter for 20 years, grossly overweight until I was in my 30's and until now, was terrified at the notion of being the subject of my own art. Until her...
The leg and arms crossing isn't a hard effect, especially in black light and you plan your pose. Very minor Post production.
So far, the image has “glowing” reviews! -via reddit