Aura Painting at Tomorrow's Ghosts Festival, October 2018

At the end of October 2018 I went to do aura painting at Dark Days Alternative Market part of Tomorrow's Ghosts Festival (26 to 28th Oct 2018 organised by Absinthe Promotions, in Whitby.

This time the venue for the festival and our market was the wonderful Whitby Pavilion and one of my favourite bands of all time, Paradise Lost was also present as one of the two festival headliners. I have been following this Yorkshire band for most of my music life and listening to Doom Metal currently is and has always been the biggest inspiration for my painting. For this reason, just to be part of the same festival I can say it was simply a dream came true!!! Even more I managed to get both set list and drumstick (as well as a band tee) so, it was overall one of the best festival ever!!

In preparation for the event I retouched a lot of prints in acrylics and I am glad I did so I could offer even more choice to customers. On the two days of trading I did lot of aura portraits of people's energies and the sale went well, so overall it was a positive experience, despite the super cold seaside weather. In particular, many friends came to the rescue, helping me with the selling of prints whilst I was busy paintings, and they even kept me well fed with a never-ending stream of cakes from local bakeries (I ate them all!!). Their kindness touched me deeply, made the event even better and for this I would never be able to express my gratitude enough.

Preparing hand-embellished prints for the event:

My stall at the market:

Selection of aura painting sketches:

With many many thanks to Absinthe Promotions for allowing me to be part of all of this.  I am already looking forward to trade at their forthcoming events in 2019!!

Aura painting at Goth City Festival 2018: Black Gold - dry social & stalls event

Once again this October I was invited to participate and trade at the Black Gold Social and Stall event part of Goth City Festival (Goth City Promotions) 2018. Being part of the event is such an amazing experience, in particular thanks to the effort and hard work of Goth City Promotions who has over-exceed everyone's expectations by organizing once again one of the friendliest and genuinely most awesome festivals in the Goth community.

Preparing for the festival:
a mass production of hand-embellished prints!

My little stall at the market:

Aura painting sketch:

 I would like to express my gratitude to Goth City Promotions
for organizing always amazing events and for always letting me take part in it

Aura painting at Dark Days Alternative Market April 2018

With many apologies for not uploading anything in my blog for such a long time (too many things and events!!!), I kick off with photos of my participation in the wonderful Dark Days Alternative Market  organised by Absinthe Promotions in Whitby in April 2018.

It was such a wonderful experience being part of this event and I surely enjoyed doing aura painting portraits of so many people there and meeting other fellow traders!

One, two, three...go!

 Whibty, the Gothiest town on earth!

 My little stall at the market:

Some of the aura painting sketches done at the event:

 Among the traders, I would like to say thanks to he wonderful Ray Bokor, full time Spiritual Medium (and a very friendly one!) who helped me with the logistic and kept me company on the day.

With many thanks again to the wonderful organiser for allowing me to participate!

Bodycraft festival 2018 - Aura painting at the event

It was my great pleasure to be one of the artists and traders part of this year's Bodycraft festival 2018 (in Cleethorpes, a previously unknown to me seaside town that actually was a jewel to discover!).
First of all, before being invited to participate I have to confess that I was not really familiar with the whole concept of body painting so finding myself surrounded by so many talented artists that paint bodies instead of canvas was simply an extraordinary and inspiring experience.
The funniest bit was thought that, upon arrival, I was asked if I was one of the models instead of the traders, which fact I found really flattering (this despite me and modelling not being a thing)!!

At the festival not only I managed to sell a number of prints but the concept of esoteric art and aura painting seemed to catch somehow a lot of interest among participants and traders, so much so I ended up doing a lot of little aura portraits. Fortunately my friend Mark assisted me for the whole length of the festival, dealing with all the setting up and sale side, so I was able to concentrate on the painting, a total dream! What I liked the most was the opportunity to chat with all the people that had their aura sketch done and talk about the concept of reading people's energies and perception of auras. Below are some photos I took at the event:

During the lunch break I also did the aura sketch of my assistant, a proper mathematician's soul.

And...cherry on the cake, after receiving my aura painting one of the customers twitted it about. It was really touching to read such a kind message.

Furthermore before we left, we were blessed with the opportunity to watch the final catwalk with all the painted models showing off the work of the talented body-panting artists, there for the competition. A true work of art and a celebration of the human body (Leonardo and Michelangelo would be proud!). Here are some of the photos I took of the catwalk.

Totally looking forward to go back next year!