Another of my work ” Raining Beauty” glazed the front cover of Devour Magazine!

It was one of those moments when I had a vision to create this raining beauty.

Called up one of my favourite and talented photographer and friend Rachel from Matchless Snapshots .

I could not have chosen any model more perfect than Hana Schleisnger to wear this art on mine.

I am extremely happy to share the love to worldwide…what a privilege..

Thank you Devour Magazine

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The start of the new year 2015. My creation of Aztec Goddesses “Mictecacihuati ” – The Lady Of Death-and ” Coatilicue” – Goddess of the stars and moon and also known as the lady with the serpent skirt, has glazed the front and back cover of Mystica Magazine Issue 5 .

Now that is a great start for my New year!

Creating the Aztec Goddesses using my interpretation with my art is always a challenging one but I thrive on challenges:0)

All props and headpieces and created with many many many hours of love….

Photographer/Post Sergio Villasenor @ Smoking Mirror Photography

Models Anousheh ( Lady of the Dead)

Model Denise Kayan ( Lady with the Serpent Skirt)

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A wonderful collaboration with one of my favourite photographer, the talented Alf Caruana.

We were so happy that Yaroslavna Martens agreed to model for us.

Young, beautiful, talented and you can see why the camera really loves her too!

You can view more of these shots on my Showcase page.

via “Trapped In A Bed Of Roses” on ELENAVATION™.

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LATIN GLOW PARTY 

Thank you Cheryl Smith and Paul Zaidman of Dance101 for having Elena and one of her crew member Laurie Faulkner to celebrate their 7th year Birthday celebration!

It was a glow painting night. It was just awesome to see all the dancers showing their passion through their dancing.

Glow paints, awesome latin music,plenty of fun and laughter…what more could one ask ask for :0)

A huge thanks to Dylan Perry  of Dylan Perry Productions for putting together this amazing captures on video!

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A VERY SPECIAL COLLABORATION.

Return to the core is one of the many pieces of art I had the pleasure to create for a multi talented model and performer Xander Pratt. Each concept for him is created at a time of my connection with his soul evolution .

We were privilege to have Jonathan Ho who not only put together this amazing behind the scenes  video, he also managed to capture many breathtaking  images and bring the whole concept to life!

Thank you to all… a collaboration that truly had great significance to all of us..

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The fancy dress and accessories of Dr Tom’s gets better and better each year!

To the amazing team at Tomfoolery, thank you for having me year after year to create all those character’s make up!

It was a blast!

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Year after year creating for the wonderful crowds for St Patrick’s day.

Each year it gets crazier and crazier. Loving it :0)

Thank you to Seamus O’Toole at Knox ..it s been an awesome 5 years and I will be looking forward to be back even more crazier next year!

Cheers!

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6 years in a row , this will be my 7th year creating for Australian Open

Blast from the past..a picture in a magazine back in 2010 of my face painting creations!

It is always so much fun painting all the country flags for all those devoted fans and getting to meet so many people from all over the world.

Australian Open 2014… I am ready for you!

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Cheers to another colourful year! This is what Elena Lieu and Laurie Faulkner got up to on the eve!

We were requested to transform 2 models into 2 animals to showcase to  the hundreds of guests at the Palladium at Crown Entertainment Complex Melbourne.

It was an amazing night as the whole venue was transformed into a tropical forest to represent their jungle theme.

A celebration to welcome the year 2014!

via New Year’s Eve Body Painting on ELENAVATION™.

Huge thanks to Wasp Hair Australia. Among the many entries, Elena Lieu of Elenavation Face & Body Art has been selected to be the runner up winner for their 2013 competition !

Thank you Christina of Fotoco fotos, Tim Tam of Tim Tam Studios, My beautiful models, Terri Keevers, Dila Tawn, Maddie Pye, Anna Glue and Alice Kelson. You all are just amazing . x

via Runner Up Winner 2013 Wasp Hair Australia on ELENAVATION™.

Elena Lieu from Elenavation and her talented crew Janie Feron and Gina Nomachi , has transformed 5 players into tigers as well as painted their official 2014 jersey.

This is for the West Tigers NRL club 2014 television commercial. The ad produced by Spike Creative took a whole day to shoot including three hours to apply the body paint on four of the players including skipper Robbie Farah.

Each player had three artists working on them for 90 minutes to apply the body paint in the team’s Concord changing rooms.

The players were then driven to Balmain where they were let loose on an unsuspecting coffee shop and local pub to get the shots for the 2014 membership drive.

via Body Painting for West Tigers NRL Television Commercial on ELENAVATION™.

Oh what a night! an awesome time creating for this lovely couple for their special night out!

via Another Jungle Night Creation on ELENAVATION™.

Here I created client Damien as a Werewolf, What a hoot! and that’s what I’m talking about.. go hard or go home!

via OH Happy-Halloween!! on ELENAVATION™.

Theme for the night was tribal so there were loads of wild reptiles. No reptiles nor any human were harm at this event lol!

All the guests had an awesome time and having Tash greet and entertain them not only was perfect for their theme night but made it a memorable night and had everyone talk abut it long after the event had gone! Huge thanks to Tim Tam Studio for this image.

via Leopard Body Painting for Savage Club Melbourne on ELENAVATION™.

An international fashion and alternative magazine – The theme was crazy colours.

I have created model Cherry Titanium Louella into a butterfly coming out from her cocoon.

Shots taken by Sasha photography.

via Freque Magazine on ELENAVATION™.

ALF Star Brett Deledio transforms into a Human Engine

Wow what a busy year! I had an awesome time body painting for Brett Deledio an ALF star for the launching of Adidas new football boots.

It took me almost 3 hours to create a painted engine on the torso of this  Richmond football star.

Adidas are launching their new Nitrocharge boots – these boots are made for powerful athletics that were made like engines.

I am so happy it made head turns and it even made it on the channel nine news headlines!

via ALF Star Brett Deledio transforms into a Human Engine on ELENAVATION™.

This year their theme is Pandora. It took four Artists and four hours to create ten Avatars.

Approximately 4000 people came to support this magical event with Local and International DJs .

It was the biggest  UV paint party of the year and I am so happy to be part of it!

We all had a blasts body painting all the performers. Looking forward to next year!

via Body Painting & Creation of Avatars at Ultraglow on ELENAVATION™.

For those unfamiliar - Illusion is a world class Face and Body painting magazine based in the UK.

Huge thank you for the comprehensive write up of my personal journey in my world of my art.

I am so grateful for the opportunity to work with some of the most gorgeous and patience models and I cannot thank enough to all the talented photographers I get to work with.

via Elena Lieu featured in Illusion Face and Body Art Magazine UK on ELENAVATION™.

‘Piranha’ by Matt Sofo Feat. Xander Pratt (Official Music Video)

DIRECTED BY NATHAN BOBIK & SHER TAULLA OF SHOT/CUT ENTERTAINMENT
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT – ELLA BARTON
FACE & BODY ARTIST – ELENA LIEU OF ELENAVATION
HAIR – TAMMY TIMTAM
EDITOR – NATHAN BOBIK
MODELS – ISABELLE DELTORE & AMANDA GRAFANAKIS
CONTORTIONIST – VICKY AISHA BLACKTHORN

SPECIAL THANKS TO JASON PANDA, BERNARD GUEIT, ANDREW GUEIT, JONATHAN GUEIT & JAE GREY

FILMED ON LOCATION AT APERTURE STUDIOS, RICHMOND – aperturestudios.com.au
© SHOT.CUT.ENTERTAINMENT PTY LTD

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‘Piranha’ by Matt Sofo Feat. Xander Pratt (Behind the Scenes)

Face & Body Art by Elena Lieu of Elenavation .

Special Thanks to Lloyd will from Hats off Productions for filming and editing this clip.

via Piranha (Behind the Scenes) on ELENAVATION™.

UV Painting Commercial Advertisement for ULTRAGLOW Paint Party.

Starring Miss Minx Zoukstress, Xander Pratt and Vicky Aisha Blackthorn
Filmed, Directed and Produced by Tim McCartney of TMC Media
Face & Body Makeup by Elena Lieu of Elenavation

via UV Commercial for ULTRAGLOW on ELENAVATION™.

Xander Pratt ‘Oh Hell Yeah’ (Music Video)

Performed by Xander Pratt, Produced by Damoto Trey, Directed by Tim McCartney (TMC Media)

Models are Penny Higgs and Minx Zoukstress, Makeup by Elena Lieu Face & Body Painting and Effie Mylonas Face Painting

via Xander Pratt ‘Oh Hell Yeah’ on ELENAVATION™.

Elena re-creates Xander, A Modern Day Era

I recently had the pleasure to work with 2 amazing artists, Dancer Xander Pratt and face & Body artist Elena Lieu of Elenavation. The story behind the shoot is the rebirth of the human race from the toxic rotting environment we have created.

To survive we had to replace our vital organs with industrial style robotics, so now we move like crazed broken machinery.

Well thats what was going through my head while I shot this. The stop frame video used every shot we took including the set ups.

Model is Xander Pratt, Face & Body Artist is Elena Lieu
Lighting 1x Medium Octagonal Softbox
Model Hasselblad H4D-50, Shutter Speed 1/250 second, Aperture F/9, Focal Length 80mm ISO, Speed 100

Originally Published by PETER on JULY 12, 2012

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