Carolyn Roper wins World Body Painting Title.. Again.

This was the winning design by Carolyn Roper. The theme was: "Spirituality beyond the visible eye." The artists got awarded points for originality, their uses of special effects, their painting techniques, colours and how they realised their final outcome.

Carolyn is the first artist is 12 years to win twice in two different categories. In 2007 the themes were: "The year 2525" and "Chaos and Control"

I personally prefer these two from 2007, as the colours and imagery used is more realistic, but you can certainly notice the difference between 2007 and 20o9, 2009 was more based around special effects.

Roper has also done special body painting for a unique way to promote their brand/company. For example Biffy Clyro used Ropers design for an album cover: Puzzled.

I think sometimes we forgot that we can do things manually rather than using a computer to simulate an effect. This is shown through the Biffy Clyro cd Cover and although you could touch up these images with photoshop, they have a real wow factor. I also presume in the flesh they look even better and so would be great for pr events.