Bodypainter's naked ambition A New York artist is earning a living - by bodypainting surreal faces on to naked women.

Andy Golub, 43, specialises in daubing exotic designs onto female skin, covering groups of girls from top-to-toe in his vivid designs. He exhibits his group paintings in local galleries, but also works on individual women on a commission basis. And sometimes he just takes his brushes to the street in search of willing 'canvases' to paint for parades and parties. He said: "I've been bodypainting for four years and I've been a professional artist for 10 years. "A single bodypainting takes around three to four hours, but for a performance I paint in around 30 minutes. "And if I do a large group of people at a party or a parade, it's much quicker than that. "People often hire me to paint them, mostly women. Sometimes a man will hire me to paint his wife or girlfriend as a birthday present."

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Dated 2009-10-23