Skin Wars has been a huge success for GSN and tonight at 10p RuPual hosts the show’s first spinoff Skin Wars: Fresh Paint. Each week 6 artists, who have never done body painting, will compete for $10,000. Artists like illustrators, cake designers and sign painters to name a few.
For the first round, they will be broken into teams of two. Those teams will be paired up with a contestant from one of the past seasons of Skin Wars. During that round the mentors can help the contestants any way they want. Then when the two hours are up, the mentors have to choose which team member goes on to the second round. For that round, the mentors can only help contestants with instructions, they cannot help them paint. When that round is over the Judges will decide which two contestants move on to the final round. This time the mentors only get 15 minutes with them at the beginning and the halfway mark to help them out. The final two are pretty much on their own. When they are done, the judges decide who goes home with the $10,000 prize.
I love Skin Wars because it is amazing to see what those body painters can do. Skin Wars: Fresh Paint in ways is even cooler because you get to see these professionally artists grow as they work their magic on a new type of canvas for them. Just because they are great at one form of art, doesn’t mean they will be just as great at this. But for the most they are and their work is stunning to look at.
Tune in tonight and every Wednesday to watch art come to life on the human body.
