Your Creative Push

Laurita Mazapán is a body artist and photographer who paints her body and the body of others to create an inner portrait of people where feelings and emotions are represented.  She uses body painting to represent the person within the body and to represent a moment that will disappear tomorrow. Full shownotes: http://yourcreativepush.com/laurita In this episode, Laurita discusses: -How art is a way for her to release stress and cope with life. -How she got into painting on bodies as a progression from her photography. -The difference between painting on her own body and on someone else's body. -Her emotions when she has to wash away the body paint. -The story of one of her first creative moments. -How she didn't think her first body painting was very good, but still had that feeling of "finding gold." -How she changed the theme of her artwork, but because of the opinions of other people, she went back to painting the things they suggested (and lost her motivation to paint for ten years). -One of her worst mom